Our approach
The Knightsbridge process
Knightsbridge invests all the time required to gain a comprehensive understanding of your unique exit motivations and goals. This enables us to establish all the circumstances relating to your business and to create the best approach towards fulfilling your objectives, designing a strategy tailored to you.
We ensure to learn what your goals are from the very first meeting, as doing so will determine which type of deal and structure would suit your requirements.
Available through every stage of the transaction, our advisers remove the burden of having to juggle selling a business and running it simultaneously, which means you can focus on sustaining the company’s strongest possible performance. You will be consulted and kept informed of every significant development during the entire process.
Our approach
Presenting your opportunity
Our experienced team work closely with you and your business to understand its key selling points and value drivers, enabling us to tailor a bespoke marketing plan which maximises the levels of interest in the opportunity.
Personalising the approach in this way means your requirements will always be met and that you can achieve the best possible outcome for your business in regard to deal structures and value expectation.
We will produce high-quality presentational documents to illustrate the key aspects of your business. Our designated document writers and marketing professionals work closely with you in the early stages to produce the bespoke marketing material.
Each document will be drafted and sent to you for your review and approval, then utilised at strategic and relevant points within the process. a default paragraph for the tab item.
Finding the perfect buyer
We provide the most comprehensive buyer reach possible to maximise the level of acquirer interest in your business. With a combination of superior marketing techniques and expert buyer identification practices, we will explore every possible avenue in our search for your perfect ‘best fit’ buyer.
Registered Buyers
We have built a comprehensive and industry-leading buyer database of over 70,000 potential acquirers. Our database contains detailed acquisition profiles from private buyers through to multinational PLCs. We can illustrate your opportunity to buyers who we know are acquisitive and are typically pre-vetted from both confidentiality and financial perspectives.
UK-Wide Buyers
Through an in-depth and comprehensive research process, we can identify suitable trade, competitive, complementary, strategic and synergistic buyers that we believe will have an appetite to consider your business as an acquisition. We have the resources to access detailed information on over seven million companies and historic transactions from the UK alone.
Institutional Buyers
Institutional buyers are typically defined as Private Equity, Venture Capitalists and investment companies. These types of buyers often invest into growing businesses or those complementary to other companies already within their portfolio.
Strategy
We utilise up to 50 online buyer platforms which attract UK, European and global acquirers, investors and advisers.
By working with you to identify competitors, customers and suppliers, we can include or ignore specific companies. Combining your industry knowledge with our extensive research capabilities, we will ensure to produce the most comprehensive buyer target list.
Internally, we maintain a database of over 10,000 professional contacts that actively represent clients who are acquisitive within the market.
These include corporate financiers, accountants, lawyers and buy-side advisers. We maintain regular communication with these contacts, informing them of opportunities we currently represent.
If appropriate, we can also place generic details of your opportunity on a range of specialist company sale web portals to generate interest whilst maintaining confidentiality.
Achieving maximum value
Be assured we will always act in your interests to achieve the best possible outcome, securing the maximum value for your company and ensuring the terms in which the agreed price is paid are favourable.
Driving maximum value is key to our strategy. We will treat our clients’ companies your business as though they it were our own, aiming to create competition to bring forward the ideal acquirer.
Inclusive legal fees
Legal considerations are a key part of any business sale. At Knightsbridge, we provide in-house legal fees which are contingent – meaning you will only pay a pre-agreed fee upon the completion of a successful sale.
Having a trusted and experienced solicitor on board will ensure everything is prepared efficiently, in writing and that legal protocols are executed correctly. That is why we collaborate with a trusted panel of legal experts who have extensive experience advising both buyers and sellers.
Through our nationwide network of legal partners, we connect you with top-tier law firms. One of which will oversee all legal aspects of the deal – providing guidance, resolving issues, and managing the process through to completion.
Your carefully selected professional will proactively identify and address potential challenges with the buyer on your behalf, ensuring a seamless and efficient due diligence process. They bring deep expertise in all types of deals.