Selling Your Business – Advisory Services

Selling Your Business – Advisory Services

You’ve worked hard to build your business. We’ll help you maximise its sale value – and reduce your risks and taxes.

Rather than just conducting an auction, our services include:

Pre Sale

  • Valuing your business It may be much greater than your accounts indicate.
  • Creating management incentive plans – including Employers’ Management Incentive (EMI) schemes.
  • Searching for and identifying buyers.
  • Drafting bid documentation.
  • Restructuring.

Tender and Auction

  • Managing the tender and auction process.
  • Managing disclosures.
  • Undertaking buyer due diligence.
  • Helping you negotiate terms of sale from expressions of interest to the final contract.

Risk Management

  • Managing your risks, including:
    • Warranties
    • Payments to you – across upfront and deferred payments.
    • Pensions
    • Terms and conditions of exit.
    • Aligning management risks and rewards.

Minimising Taxes

Your Helping Hand

As well as technical/financial advice, we’ll guide you through your sale. We’ll help you stay focused on your objectives.

Ideally, we should start well before your intended sale.

Johnsons – Chartered Accountants. 

  • We’re a growing, full-service, mid-sized firm of Chartered Accountants – and are small enough to care.
  • We’ve currently (May 2025) the resources and expertise to address your corporate finance requirements.

Advisory Team

Chartered Accountant Ealing Stuart Thomson

J Stuart Thomson MA CA FCT ATT MCSI

Group Managing Director

  • Chartered Accountant (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland)
  • Associate Chartered Accountant (Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales)
  • FCT – Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers
  • MCSI – Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments
  • ATT – Association of Tax Technicians
> Stuart's full profile
Auditor London Edmund Cartwright FCCA

Edmund Cartwright FCCA

Managing Director / Audit Partner

  • Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).
  • Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) to conduct audits.
  • Authorised as a Responsible Individual by the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to conduct Public Interest Entity (PIE) audits.
> Edmund's full profile

Rob Wilkes FCA

Audit Director

  • Rob has 34 years of audit experience.
  • Worked in the UK, Ireland and Australia and at four of the top five global accounting firms.
  • Advises and audits clients in the technology, professional services, leisure, hospitality, manufacturing, wholesale and NFP sectors.
  • Experienced in leading the delivery of audits for listed companies, large privately owned international companies and Private Equity owned businesses.
> Rob's full profile

Next Step

Contact us to learn how we’ll optimise your sale value – and minimise your risks and taxes. You’ll be pleased you did.