Services

Exit Support

The Why:
Securing the best possible exit valuation is a challenge for any business owner or investor. Unless the company balance sheet is an appealing prospect for those seeking to acquire turnover or boost profitability, ensuring recognition for the value built into the business model can be difficult. While any good exit strategy plan will have incorporated a long-term approach to managing and improving the performance of the intangibles in your business, communicating their value to any potential suitor is critical.

The What:
Metis Partners can help companies assess where the intangible value exists in a business, document it and measure its impact on business success - past, present and future - in a comprehensive report which can support the negotiation with potential acquirers and help management to get recognition for the unique areas of value that exist throughout every business. Ultimately the acquirer must recognise what it would cost to replace or recreate the value built up in your business under each of our business model headings including:

the know-how within key employees
organisational knowledge in company intranets or critical documents
key processes or ways of doing things
the way important relationships are consistently managed
how you manage innovation or develop the brand
as well as the formal intellectual property rights

Our team can work alongside accounting and legal partners to support the exit process, helping management negotiate a deal and ensure that an acquirer properly takes into account the target company's ability to generate future value for them.

The Benefits:
By helping you gain a clear understanding of a possible acquirer's own strategy and business objectives, and how your company might fit into their strategy, the execution of a successful exit strategy will ultimately involve achieving recognition for a number of intangible areas of value in your business. This value is what will inevitably make up the goodwill element of any transaction and ultimately a valuation that they will place on your company.