Exit Readiness

Spectacular achievement is preceded by unspectacular preparation.

What Is Exit Readiness?‍

Being Prepared

Maximising value and choosing the best exit strategy means understanding all the options available (full or partial Sale, IPO, MBO, etc.), knowing the potential value of your business and choosing the right time to conduct the transaction. Venero’s Exit Readiness helps you explore your liquidity options, clarify your objectives and define the right preparatory course of action for achieving them.

Maximising Value Prior to a Sale

When it comes to business valuation, knowledge is power. Our industry expertise and experience of completing over 50 M&A transactions provides you with a real-world assessment of your business. Our Exit Readiness provides you with insight into the potential universe of buyers and an assessment of what will drive value in the future. ‍

Controlling the Timing

The key to a value-maximising liquidity event rests in controlling the process and its timing. Venero’s experienced team of corporate finance advisors can provide a path to understanding what drives value even in the most complex engagements, while our transaction experience provides real-time market perspective to business owners, financial executives, Boards of Directors and investors. ‍

Exit Readiness Highlights

1. Initial Review: We review aspects of your business that will be relevant in the context of a liquidity event, such as corporate structure, financial performance, competitive landscape, IP, customer concentration, suppliers, funding, organisational structure, etc.
2. Liquidity Objectives: During a half-day session, we review the business in detail and discuss the objectives (quantitative and qualitative, personal and general) relating to the envisioned liquidity event. We also ask that you rate your business in 20 key areas, which in aggregate indicate how ready your business is for exit.
3. Potential Acquirers: We scope potential acquirers and review the strategic rationale for each type of purchaser. We prepare “strategy teardowns” for the most likely acquirers, including acquisition history, strategic objectives, financial standing and funding capacity.
4. Growth Routes: Key to maximising value is defining your company’s routes to growth. We assess the merits of each one in the context of adding capital value, ease of implementation and whether it will widen the universe of purchasers. Thereafter, we seek to monitor progress against these opportunities
5. Company Valuation: We undertake a robust analysis of your business, the market in which you operate and the precedent transactions within it, to produce an indicative valuation. We give further consideration to the levers of value within your business and to how this valuation could be enhanced.
6. Sale Readiness Recommendations: We highlight areas of the business we believe may require addressing in advance of a liquidity event. We present a series of recommendations organised by importance, focused both on enhancing the capital value of the business and on ensuring it is ready for sale when the time comes.

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