Ask yourself these business questions
Do you have a clear overview of the financial health of your business – and of the challenges and threats you may face?
Do you know your critical success factors, action plans and the key Management Information required to tell you if you are on track to meet your objectives?
What are your long-term goals when it comes to your business interests and your personal wealth? Do you have a robust gameplan with the right advisers in place to make it happen?
Could any problems faced by your business also impact upon your own family wealth and standing? To what extent are your business and personal finances interdependent?
Who truly understands you and your business?
Who has your back and can give you the objective advice when you need it?
Which parts of your business are sub-optimal?
Where are your biggest business risks?
Is your business at risk of Agentic AI?
How do you go about financing your cashflow and funding your future growth aspirations?
What plans do you have to expand your company? How will they be financed?
Do you have a succession plan in place for your business? Or are you more interested in a tax-efficient sale and exit?
How do you know if your senior management team are able to take the reins from you?
Are your children really interested and able to take over your business and legacy?
How do you extract value from your business without compromising it?
Are you tax optimised, and how will you deal with the Inheritance Tax Liability?
Are your business shareholdings and retained profits organised in the most tax-efficient manner possible? Is the advice joined up?
How do you change from being an Owner Manager to becoming an Investor?
How do you know if you are too early for a business exit?
How can you maximise your business value?
How do you successfully market your business for sale?
Should you sell now, and if so to whom? A Trade buyer you may know, or a large Private Equity backed business?
What are Trade and Private Equity buyers looking for?
Should you roll equity once you sell your business?
Are MBOs, EMIs or EOTs a good idea?
How do you go about a successful restructure, acquisition or buy-out?
Do you think you will ever retire?
SO DO YOU HAVE AN END-GAME FOR YOUR BUSINESS?
We have advised and sold a number of businesses and know what your future buyers are looking for in a business.
From trade buyers, Private Equity backed businesses, Management Buy-Outs and Management Buy-Ins, each will have an ideal composition, and set of requirements.
But every one of them will pay a premium to buy a good, de-risked business that prints cash without the founder having to remain in place.
Always handled with care.
What makes us different to other Advisers?
We’re advice led, with no ulterior motives
We’ll give you the unfiltered reality check, along with a tailored plan that will work
We’ll be hands on, always accessible and not on the clock
We have worked across many industry sectors and delivered tangible outcomes
We’ll help to de-risk and optimise your business where it matters
We know what Trade and Private Equity buyers are looking for
We’ll advise you when to sell, but only when it’s best for you
We’ll let you know if your management team or successors have it in them to continue your legacy
We’ll advise and market your business for sale, at the best price
We’ll advise you when your business should be sold, if at all, as sometimes sustained dividends may be the best option
Building and managing a successful business is difficult, even Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg had mentors.
The main ambition for most entrepreneurs is to achieve a lasting legacy, a meaningful capitalisation event, or a succession to the people that matter... evolving from being an Owner Manager to an Investor.
We know what the journey looks like for successful business owners, because we absolutely get it, and are retained by them, delivering value throughout.
When advising entrepreneurs about their business, it often involves other aspects of their lives, such as legacy, succession, their personal wealth, the business life cycle and whether they’re actually selling too soon.
This level of hands on, trust, objective advice and management is difficult to find for business owners, but as entrepreneurs ourselves, we have deep insight and know what works.
We provide entrepreneurs and owner-managers with objective advice that encompasses both their family wealth and business interests, because this joined-up approach simply isn’t out there.
We founded our business to address this glaring advice gap.
We’ll optimise your business, and advise you when it’s ready to be sold.
At Alpha Enterprise Solutions we recognise that for driven entrepreneurs the world isn’t black and white.
Our insight and first-hand experience enables us to deliver a dynamic, all-encompassing advice to all your financial affairs, whilst balancing the competing risks and rewards that straddle business and family finances.
Objectivity is at the core of our business because we know that’s what you are looking for in a strategic business adviser.
So you think you’ve got a great business, now what?