Preparing to sell
Nursery exit readiness support for owners preparing to sell.
Prepare early. Sell on your terms.
A buyer is not only looking at what the nursery earns today. They are trying to understand how dependable those earnings are, what depends on you and what problems may appear after completion.
Exit readiness
Make the business easier to understand and trust.
Sale preparation should begin before the business is on the market. That gives you time to improve weak information, reduce avoidable owner dependency and deal with issues a buyer would otherwise discover under pressure.
I work on the commercial and operational preparation. Your accountant, solicitor and corporate-finance adviser remain responsible for their specialist areas.
- Quality and consistency of management information
- Occupancy, fees, staffing and sustainable earnings
- Owner dependency and strength of the management team
- Systems, processes and business continuity
- Outstanding operational issues that may affect confidence
- Priorities to address before a formal sale process begins
What support can look like
Operational preparation before the sale process.
Sale-readiness support can focus on the management information, owner dependency, operating systems and unresolved issues already described above. The aim is to identify what can be improved before formal due diligence, while your accountant, solicitor and corporate-finance adviser handle their specialist areas.
Do not wait for due diligence
Fix what you can while time is still on your side.
A clean sale process starts with a business that can explain itself. Good records, clear performance information and a management structure that works without constant owner intervention all reduce uncertainty.
Thinking about an exit?
Even if the sale is not immediate, an early conversation can show what would benefit from attention while you still have time to change it.