Are you ready for Exit?
With our guidance you’ll be well equipped to appreciate
the challenge ahead of you
Many business Exits achieve far less than
their potential, and here’s why…
Whilst 65% of business owners expect to Exit within the next 5 years… the majority will realise only a fraction of their business’ potential.
There are many reasons why…
A typical business needs to allow 18-24 months in order to prepare and be ready for Due Diligence. Without a capable leadership team in place, the managing of the Exit process is a diversion that can have a negative impact on business performance.
Most Owners are inexperienced business-sellers. In contrast, many Purchasers are supported by an expert team of forensic business specialists, who are highly experienced in buying companies…
- An 11th hour Exit
- The owner loses business focus
- A downward financial trajectory
- Only one purchaser identified
- Narrow vision of potential suitors
- Attaching a ‘price’ to the business
- Novice seller vs Expert purchaser
- Skeletons in the cupboard
- Not investing to fund Exit
What we do
Only with the right tools and an expert team is the peak truly scalable
We prepare your business for the best Exit deal possible so that you can focus on running your business. As Business grown-ups, having run our own companies, we have experienced the Selling and Buying process. We pride ourselves on making the complex simple with a straightforward and practical approach. Every assignment has a dedicated Director Consultant to manage the Exit process from start-to-finish and co-ordinate specialist experts in Marketing, Sales, HR, Legal, Finance, Branding, IP, Taxation, Wealth as required.
Our proprietary Valuation Tool allows us to assess the shifts in value given different Exit strategies, and our secure Assets Portal provides a professional presentation of your business to acquisitors in a centralised location.
“The blood, sweat and tears count for nothing if you don’t reach the peak”
Our approach
A clear map of the terrain ahead provides an essential perspective
1. Discovery
- Personal goals
- Expectations
- Appetite
Alignment with owner(s) to clarify the business proposition, Exit expectations & personal goals
2. Immersion
- Deep dive
- Business audit
- 9 x value levers
Deep-dive business assessment across multiple rating metrics and the 9 key value levers using PeakVal tool
3. Valuation
- Current valuation
- Valuation scenarios
- Implications
Determine the scope and exit potential including exploration of a range of potential Exit strategies using PeakVal tool
4. Plan
- Exit strategy & plan
- Resources & timing
- Next steps
Formulation of a detailed Exit strategy and costed resource plan
5. Implementation
- Project management
- Strategic suitors
- Structuring Exit deal
Managing the plan and Exit presentation to a range of cultivated purchasers using PeakPortal tool
Our clients
Whether you’re a fast track business on a mission or a long established enterprise, we know that a great mutual fit is essential. The chemistry that we find works best:
- A direct relationship with the business owner(s)
- Owner(s) who are open-minded and committed
- Businesses that have scalable potential
- Businesses that are already well funded
- A minimum Exit horizon of 12 months
After investing your money, blood, sweat and tears into your business it is only right and proper that your company is properly prepared and presented in order to achieve the best possible Exit for you.
Your starting point
If you would like a topline indication of your company’s current value simply try our ‘ready-reckoner’ based on 10 x insights about your business. We will review your responses and respond quickly with a complimentary valuation.
Note: Valuations are indicative and not a guarantee of the final price a Purchaser will pay…however, they are useful in establishing a base to start planning your Exit strategy.
"No one has reached Everest's peak without the right team behind them..."
Get in touch today…
Take the first step in reaching the summit of your business’ peak value
A few Exit insights
"After 18 months of negotiations and due diligence, the growing business that we had first been attracted to had actually stopped growing. We renegotiated the final price down to reflect this…"
"I felt like a sportsman at the end of his career. I no longer had my business. It was such an anti-climax…"
"Our internal acquisition team plus 20 experts went through the business we wanted to buy - I thought the owners were going to collapse under the deluge of what we had requested…"
"Due diligence will reveal everything about your business – be transparent and prepare to explain every detail…"
"Having been through one Exit as a minority shareholder, I know that I’ll be getting dedicated help when I Exit my current business…"
"Thanks to an earn-out deal, I received only 50% of the initial price agreed for my business…"
"The preparation involved for Exit was such a distraction to running my business…"
"With only one acquisitor in the frame I know my valuation was bullied down at the last minute…"
"Working through an earn out, effectively as an employee, was 2 years of hell…"
