The key to successful mergers and acquisitions is understanding no one opportunity or setting is ever the same. Our sales strategies are tailored to suit you and ensure you get the best outcome. With sufficient experience in buying and selling nurseries, we can guide you through the process, from knowing when to offer your childcare setting to the whole market right through to ensuring a smooth completion and a valuable net profit.
We understand that every business owner will have their own ideal and in understanding this we can assist with negotiating a deal that should meet the goals of both parties in the short to medium term.
We prepare a set of marketing particulars to ensure you are marketed in the best and most comprehensible light for prospective purchasers.
Using our innovative CRM and marketing techniques, the whole marketing process and procedure negotiates an acceptable offer.
You’d be amazed how many deals fall at the final hurdle. We pride ourselves on negotiating a comprehensive set of Heads, setting out all of the key commercial terms before the lawyers get started.
As part of our professional obligations – and to ensure you have agreed a sale with someone with legitimate money – we will run checks on your purchaser to validate their identity.
We follow your sale from beginning to end. Our role is to actively chase all stakeholders to make sure the deal completes on schedule, where all parties wish it to. We will also advise you on any forms that need completing for OFSTED along the way.
If you have a question that doesn’t feature in our frequently asked questions please get in touch with our team.
If you are selling, an initial valuation is the best place. Once the valuation is completed, you will receive a comprehensive valuation report detailing how the valuation is worked out and the steps you can take to increase the value. Whether you are months or years away from sale, it is tailored to your specific nursery and circumstances to help you achieve the value and type of sale you want.
The process of finding a buyer really depends on the individual situation but once an offer is agreed, then on average, deals are taking four to five months. They can be done quicker but this requires all sides and stakeholders to be focused throughout, without drift.
Don’t worry, we’re going to be with you for every step of the transaction, and you won’t be left floundering. Whether you need help with the due diligence, navigating the Ofsted registration or working with your accountant to get the NAV in order, we are there with you – right up to the point you hand over the keys.
You can fly solo if you wish to; there is no obligation to use an agent to assist in the negotiations. However, you should remember that a lawyer is only appointed to manage the legal side of negotiations, not the commercial side. Those who work without an agent nearly always find they end up with a worse deal, or a considerably slower deal on poorer terms, than they would have otherwise enjoyed.
Yes! Selling your business is a big step and like all big steps take planning. You will achieve a better price, an easier sale, and the kind of buyer you want if you take time to plan ahead. We sometimes work with Nursery Owners for years before sale to help them grow the valuation, enjoy increased profitability while they still own the business and best prepare the setting and themselves for sale.
The majority of our valuations are free and they are all no-obligation! The aim is to give you the information you need to make a decision, be that to retain the business for now, or to sell. We market most of our nurseries with no upfront marketing fees and fees only payable on completion so we don’t get paid until you get paid!
Confidentiality is key in any business sale and that starts from our first meeting. Our consultants can complete the initial valuation during the day under the guise of another meeting, or after hours once the staff have gone home. All contact is with you directly and we will never contact the setting. All our buyers sign confidentiality agreements so you can be confident that your staff, parents or competition won’t know what is happening.
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