We guide our clients through successful transactions every step of the way.

Using tech-enabled services, we offer a tailored and personal service, helping business owners navigate the often-complex process of buying, selling, or financing their company, focusing on transactions typically in the £1M to £50M range.

While we work across a variety of sectors, we have a particular focus on technology, healthcare, financial services, and business services – industries where we have a proven track record of success.

Company Sales & Exit Strategy

Selling your company is likely to be one of the biggest decisions in your life, a significant step to free up your time and closing a chapter of huge personal and professional achievement.

It is important for owner managers to plan well ahead when considering their sale options. Understanding your motivations, planning carefully, and preparing you and your business for a sale is crucial to a successful outcome.

At Inicio we prefer to engage as early as possible and build a framework for your exit months, if not years, in advance as there will be many complex components.

This can involve identifying issues within the business and advising on strategies to make the business more attractive to prospective purchasers. We will create a tailored deal strategy around those objectives to deliver the best possible outcome.

We take great care to understand your business, applying our wealth of experience to your exit plans so that you can make the right strategic moves to maximise your shareholder value.

Company Acquisitions

There are many good reasons to acquire a business. Perhaps you wish to scale faster increasing your equity value before an exit, solidify your market position, or you want to diversify your income streams, building resilience for it to be passed onto your children.

At Inicio, we are experienced buy-side advisors, having completed several strategic acquisition projects for owner-managed businesses, private individuals and private equity houses.

We are highly experienced in advising our clients throughout the whole acquisition process, helping you strategise, source, negotiate, and finance an acquisition that makes sense to you.

We can assist you identify many attractive acquisition opportunities through our network of relationships.

Raising Finance

After the banks retreated in 2008, a dynamic and entrepreneurial alternative private finance industry emerged. From securing funding from both vendors backed investors and private equity firms to raising debt capital from banks and alternative lenders – we can help.   So, whether you need to borrow money, or are seeking an investor, Inicio will help you determine, find, and negotiate the best capital structure for your business and your objectives.

We can also help advise clients on refinance options for existing debt facilities or raising new debt funding lines. We have long-standing and established relationships with all types of funders and using our experience can negotiate to achieve competitive pricing and the very
best terms.

Long-Term Advice

If you don’t need advice now, but think you may do in the future, we offer a cost-effective quarterly service that keeps you ‘plugged in’ and capable of reacting quickly when the need or opportunity arises.

Early engagement allows us to get ‘under the bonnet’ of your business and get to know you personally, building a trusted relationship that ensures we keep you top of mind when evaluating value enhancement opportunities.