M&A processes led by people who remember their own first deal.
Sell-side, buy-side and minority-investment mandates managed with calibrated intensity - small teams, senior time, no hand-offs.
An M&A process is a trust contract between a seller and an advisor.
We take a small number of sell-side mandates each year. On every one, the lead partner runs the process from first page of the information memorandum to the final signature, not just the introductions.
Before work begins, we clarify the operating context, governance expectations, and commercial pressures behind the brief. That gives the engagement a clear purpose before technical analysis starts.
The result is a more complete advisory view: what matters now, where risk may surface next, and how recommendations can be implemented without creating unnecessary hand-offs or ambiguity.
Scope
Clarify the decision, deadline, stakeholders, and evidence standard before work begins.
Delivery
Combine partner judgement, technical review, and practical implementation planning in one workstream.
Follow-through
Convert findings into owners, actions, and next steps that leadership can track after the session.
Preparation
IM, financial model, data room and buyer longlist - produced to a standard that shortens diligence.
Outreach
Targeted, curated buyer approach - no blind auction unless that is truly the right strategy.
Diligence & bids
Q&A management, site visits, indicative bids evaluation and shortlist selection.
Negotiation
SPA negotiation led by the partner, with legal and tax support fully integrated.
Completion
Closing mechanics, completion accounts and earn-out governance.
Our typical mandate.
We run mandates between £5m and £250m enterprise value, most often with owner-managed businesses, founder-exit situations and PE-backed follow-on processes.
- Founder exits
- Owner-managed business sales
- PE secondary buyouts
- Buy-side programmes for corporates
- Minority investment fundraises
About M&A advisory.
Both. Retainer covers our time to get to IM; success fee aligns us with the outcome. We publish both in the engagement letter, always.
Considering a sale or acquisition?
A one-hour confidential conversation will tell you where a process sits today and how we would shape one.