Your MBO

Whether you are thinking about approaching the shareholders of the company that you work for OR thinking about selling the company you own to its managers, HTML is well placed to advise - both Paul Hardy and Martin Greenshields have led their own MBO teams in the past - as a result we know the hurdles, the challenges and personal emotions involved first hand!

• HTML can help you test the viability of your proposed mbo by assessing the debt capacity of the balance sheet, identifying the equity funding required and testing the resultant credit statistics against the various parameters applied by the Banks and VCs we deal with.
• Our expertise and experience gives us a significant advantage in negotiating the best deal on your behalf. Not many advisers have been fortunate enough to arrange their own mbo!
• HTML will if required prepare the raise finance and manage the transaction through to completion - our advice means that the price and financial structure agreed is sensible and viable in the long term.

Our role as Advisor would encompass the following process:

• Initiate dialogue
• Produce Business Plan
• Develop and prepare valuation based on financial projections
• Present bid to potential vendor
• Negotiate deal
• Determine most appropriate funding structure
• Approach and negotiate with funders
• Project manage deal to successful completion.

HTML work proactively with a small number of high calibre managers to identify acquisition targets, negotiate deals and raise the necessary equity and debt funding.

If you have had experience of managing a business with Turnover in excess of £5 million and are interested in looking for MBI opportunities, please call Paul Hardy on 0114 2762007