Breeze Blog by Breeze & Wyles Solicitors LLP: Merger and Acquisitions: What is in it for me?

Breeze Blog by Breeze & Wyles Solicitors LLP: Merger and Acquisitions: What is in it for me?: The reasons to consider an acquisition are relatively small in number and are set out below. However, it is important that this is a process...

Preparing your business for investors

Business owners often view investors as an alternative to bank finance. In most cases entrepreneurs would seek to raise external equity because they are running out of cash and were turned down by a bank. The only message that investors would receive is that the entrepreneur lost control of their business regardless of how you dress the situation up. If you were an investor, would you want to put your hard-earned cash and invest significant amount of time in such a venture?

So, when is the right time to start raising external equity? And what can one do to ensure that the business is ready to attract and secure investors?

Succession Planning: Business owners favour MBO as means of selling business

Whilst the economy continues to wobble with an increasing number of vendors struggling to find trade buyers for their ventures, more and more business owners are considering management buyouts (MBOs) as an option of selling their businesses.