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Honest appraisal
We start with a candid view of what your business is worth today and what a buyer would discount. If we cannot add value, we say so at the outset.
Business sale & succession advisers
Four in five businesses never sell.We make yours the one that does.
Assynt Corporate Finance works with owner-managers to increase profit, reduce dependency on the owner and run a competitive process, so you leave with the value you spent a lifetime building.
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Turnover from £1m or profits from £250k. Manufacturing, contractors, professional services and distribution.
0 in 5
UK businesses never find a buyer
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companies wound up every year
£0m+
turnover of the clients we work with
0 yrs
advising owner-managers through exits
Why Assynt
Four reasons owners pick up the phone.
Project fees, never retainers
You pay for defined work with a defined outcome, so our incentive is the deal, not the clock.
Straight answers first
If your business is not ready or we cannot add value, we tell you at the first meeting.
One adviser, start to finish
The person who appraises your business is the person who negotiates the deal. No handovers.
ICAEW qualified, Highland grounded
Chartered accountancy rigour with the plain speaking of an adviser who has sat on your side of the table.
The problem
Most owners run out of time, not ambition.
In the past, a company was either for sale or it wasn't. Today every business is effectively open to opportunity: joint ventures, partnerships, investment, or a full exit. The owners who do well are the ones who prepared before the conversation started.
- Profits that depend on the founder being in the building
- Numbers a buyer cannot verify quickly enough to trust
- A single interested party, and therefore no competitive tension
- A three-year job started three months before retirement
The Assynt approach
Lead advisory, run as a project, never a retainer.
The whole point of the process is to create competition, and competition is what drives the value and structure of the deal.
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Build the value
Increase profit and reduce dependency on the owner. This is the work that changes both the multiple and the number it is applied to.
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Create competition
A structured lead advisory process that brings the right buyers to the table at the same time, because one interested party is not a market.
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Land the deal
Tenacity through diligence, structure and negotiation, so the headline figure is the figure you actually receive.
Why we exist
Experience you can question. Answers you can act on.
Assynt was founded on a simple frustration: too many good businesses are wound up because nobody told the owner the truth early enough. We are a new generation of advisory chartered accountancy practice: small, senior and directly accountable. You deal with the person doing the work.
Tenacity
It is not a numbers game. We stay with one process until it is done.
Candour
If we cannot add value, we tell you at the outset, before any fee.
Chartered rigour
ICAEW chartered accountant and Corporate Finance Network member.
Aligned
Project-based fees, so our incentive is your outcome, not the clock.
Free, no obligation
The 12-point Exit Readiness Scorecard
Twelve questions a buyer will ask about your business. Answer them in three minutes and get a written score with the three things most likely to reduce your price.
Scored against real buyer criteria
Written summary within 24 hours
No sales call unless you ask
Get my scoreWho we help
We work with a deliberately narrow set of businesses.
Turnover of at least £1,000,000 and/or profits of at least £250,000, with an owner who has built something capable of being sold by trade sale, management buyout or employee ownership trust.
Manufacturing
Contractors
Professional services
Distributors
Accountants & solicitors
“We were told our business was unsellable. Two years of unglamorous work later it sold to a trade buyer for more than we had dared put on paper.”
“The first meeting was worth the whole engagement. Nobody had ever explained what a buyer actually looks at, or how much of the risk was me.”
Insights
What we've learned, written plainly.
Start the conversation
A straight answer, within one working day.
Tell us a little about the business and what you'd like to happen next. If we're not the right people, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.