Every business changes hands eventually. When yours does, it should go to a buyer who will hold it, run it well, and keep your name good. Not a buyer on a five-year clock, and not a competitor after your customer list.
This would be our first acquisition, and it is the only thing about us you cannot check in writing. Everything else you can, before you commit to anything. Here is the standard we hold ourselves to. Hold every buyer who calls you to the same one.
If that confirmation is not in place, you hear it before you sign, not after.
You likely receive five emails a week from people who claim to want your company and know nothing about it. This is what we actually believe, signed with a name.
You built something that works. Customers renew, people stay, the numbers hold. That did not happen by accident, and it does not survive a careless handover.
I have also sold a company I built, to a private equity buyer, with one customer accounting for most of the revenue. I know what the last month of that feels like, and I know which questions I wish someone had told me to ask earlier.
We are not a blind-pool fund. There is no five-year clock forcing a sale, and no interest in stripping what you built for parts. On each deal we put our own money in first, then invite a small group of co-investors on the same terms. We buy one company at a time, and we run what we buy.
If we make you an offer, it will be in writing, with the whole structure set out plainly, and we will not retrade it on the courthouse steps. If your company is not for us, we will tell you on the first call and explain why. That costs you twenty minutes, not six months of diligence.
Years pass, markets change, every business is eventually handed on. When you are ready, this year or in five, we would like to be the call you make.
Each is legitimate. Each wants something different from your company. Know the difference before you sign anything, including with us.
A generalised comparison. Take advice on any specific offer, including ours.
We look at hundreds of companies to buy one. If yours sits in the box, we move quickly. If it doesn't, we will say so on the first call, and where we can, point you toward a better-suited buyer.
Slightly outside the ranges? Still write. Durable economics and an honest situation matter more than a clean fit on every line.
Most sale processes die of drift. Ours has dates. At every stage you know what we have seen, what we think, and what happens next.
Twenty minutes. You describe the business; we say plainly whether it fits. No documents needed.
After an NDA and three years of accounts: an indicative offer in writing with our reasoning shown.
Heads of terms signed; confirmatory diligence runs in parallel, scoped tightly, with your advisers.
Funds on the day, with the equity committed and the debt credit approved before heads of terms are signed. Then a handover at your pace. Months where you want them, not years in golden handcuffs.
Deals of this size die for three reasons. Any buyer who will not name them has not thought hard enough about your downside to deserve a day of your time.
And we will not ask you to tell your staff anything before completion is certain.
If we make you an offer, it will be in writing, with the whole structure set out plainly, and we will not retrade it on the courthouse steps.
You screen buyers for one thing: can they sign, fund, and close without retrading. Here is what we commit to, so you can decide without a call.
Write a few lines about the business. No documents, no valuations, no commitment. You will hear back from Mihael personally within two business days.
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