Consulting and Business Grooming
The principle objective of a Business Grooming assignment is to help you maximise profitability, optimise the Business’s position within its chosen market and enhance its ultimate desirability. We also offer a range of Consultancy services customised according to the business’s objectives and can develop innovative solutions to overcome specific issues.

Business Advice and Business Planning
A very wide ranging service to help your business perform to the best of its ability and achieve specified objectives. This may include the formation of business plans and guidance on implementation, personal coaching for owners and managers, review of structure and organisation and assistance in all aspects of running the business on a day to day basis.
 

Accounts, Audit and Tax return services
Full Accountancy, Audit and Tax return services to keep you and your business up to date with tax affairs. Ensuring that you make the most of any current allowances or Tax planning opportunities available. Making sure that accounts and returns are filed on time and penalties from the Inland Revenue avoided.

Specialist Tax schemes and products
Bespoke Tax products and solutions aimed at helping you to reduce the burden of all forms of business and personal Taxes.

Succession Planning
Help to identify future potential leaders from within your business to fill key positions. One or more successors are identified for key posts and career moves and/or development activities are planned and monitored for these successors.

Business Sales
The Sale of a business usually undertaken with a full marketing exercise to locate the best buyer from either the existing trade, private networks or other research. This includes Management Buy Out (MBO) and Management Buy In (MBI) structures together with assistance in securing the most appropriate funding arrangements.

Business Acquisitions
Helping you and your business buy other businesses. This includes identifying appropriate targets, raising funds to purchase and full support throughout the transaction.

Raising of Capital
Assisting you to plan and implement any fund raising activity and source the most appropriate funders when your business may be seeking capital for expansion, growth, consolidation or acquisition.

Business Reconstruction and Insolvency
We are able to offer a wide range of services to support businesses that are experiencing temporary or more permanent trading difficulties. Our services encompass the full range of business reconstruction and insolvency services including administration, voluntary arrangements, liquidation, reconstruction, members’ voluntary liquidations and receiverships. We are approved by all the High Street banks and have access to a wide range of professionals ensuring control and best possible advice at all times. We are also able to support individuals. We have experts on hand to guide you through the regulatory minefield. We can provide advice and assistance as well as the usual range of formal services including bankruptcy and individual voluntary arrangements (IVA).

Due Diligence
We offer a range of due-diligence services including: the reasonableness of financial forecasts and projections, the effectiveness of financial controls, assessment of computer systems etc.

General Tax Advice & Guidance
Tax can be managed and mitigated by taking advance action. This service is to provide proactive guidance and advice as to what those actions are and how they can be implemented in a commercial way. We can help to ensure that any current allowances and/or tax planning opportunities are optimised.

Management Buy Out (MBO)
We can assist MBO teams at every stage of this often complex and time consuming process, providing sound commercial advice and support, and dealing with the many involved parties including: the vendor, solicitors, banks, venture capitalists, accountants and perhaps also employees, trade unions, customers and suppliers.

Management Buy In (MBI)
Support for an MBI is separated into the two key areas. Firstly, the identification of appropriate targets, including approach and management of initial discussions with vendors; secondly, the execution of the transaction, which is handled by a lead advisor providing step by step advice.

Buy In Management Buy Out (BIMBO)
We can provide professional advice and support throughout this process which encompasses all the service elements detailed for MBI and MBO.