Expert guidance for business sales and succession planning
Consistently ranked the most active M&A adviser in NI, our market leading corporate finance team has vast transactional and commercial experience in leading and successfully executing company sale transactions to trade buyers, private equity and management teams.
We are also the leading adviser on business sales to Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), a tax efficient and increasingly common option when considering succession planning.
Selling all or a part of your business is likely to be one of the most important deals you ever do, as well as one of the most emotionally and technically challenging. For many business owners it is a once in a lifetime event – we know exactly how it feels. Our experience, national and international networks, and trusted standing in the market all mean we are ideally placed to deliver the right outcome for you.
One of the reasons clients come to Grant Thornton is because they know that, uniquely in the market, we have done it ourselves. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Richard Gillan acquired, re-shaped and oversaw steep changes in growth in both a manufacturing business and an outsourcing business prior to successful exits. In his career Paul Prenter has been FD of a publicly listed UK recruitment group responsible for leading and executing multiple acquisitions as part of its M&A growth strategy; and as CFO, invested in and ran a private equity backed logistics group.
We advise how best to prepare for, market and execute a business sale in order to optimise value.
