For advisers
You see the opportunity years before anyone calls it a sale process.
Accountants, solicitors, wealth managers, bankers, brokers and corporate finance advisers know which founders keep saying “next year”. If you have a client who needs their time back more than they need a buyer, or whose business is ready to grow faster, we would like to hear about it.
The problem you already know
The founder never thinks this is the year.
There is always one more good year in it. One more contract to land, one more thing to fix first, one more reason the number will be better in twelve months.
Then ten years pass. The founder is a decade older and still the person the phone rings for, and the freedom they took the risk for in the first place never arrives. They have carried hundreds of livelihoods for decades. They have earned their time back.
We are an easier conversation for you to start than a sale, because nothing has to be sold. This is about solving a time problem, not selling a business. Some owners sell in the end. They don't have to.
When to think of us
The situations we are built for.
- An owner who has made the money and wants their time back, without selling.
- Retirement on the horizon, and no second generation or obvious successor.
- An obvious successor inside who isn't ready yet, and an owner with no time to develop them.
- A family that wants to hand it on, with a next generation that needs support first.
- A growing business that could go faster, or into North America, with the right person alongside the founder.
- A management team that wants to buy, but lacks a leader, capital, or both.
- A strong business the big funds won't look at, or a deal below a private equity firm's mandate.
- A senior executive client who wants real ownership and doesn't know where to find it.
How we work with advisers
Quick, discreet, and never behind your back.
- We answer quickly
- A first view within days, and a clear no if it is a no, with the reason.
- We keep confidences
- Your client's, and yours. Nothing goes further than the three of us without permission, and we don't publish a portfolio or announce deals.
- We don't go around you
- You introduced us. You stay in the room for as long as your client wants you there.
- We recognise introductions
- If an introduction leads to a deal, we agree with you at the start, in writing, how it will be recognised.
What a client gets
Time back, and three owners behind them.
Usually it starts with an exceptional leader who takes the day-to-day off the owner, with a guaranteed share of the value they create and our own capital alongside. The owner gets time to think, plan and be with their family. From there they choose the pace: stay in charge, hand over gradually, or exit. It is written down before anyone signs anything.
There is no fund behind us and no clock forcing a sale. And if your client would rather hand the business to their own family, we can help with that too.
Co-investors
Our own money first.
We invest our own capital. When a deal needs more, we have raised nine figures of private equity before and know where to go. Those conversations happen in private, not on a website.
Introduce a client.
Tell us the situation in a few lines. No client name is needed at this stage. One of the three of us replies personally.