What is Exit Readiness™
Exit Readiness™ is a structured assessment of the company’s sale readiness. The purpose is to identify the factors that affect a buyer’s risk assessment and pricing — before a sale process begins.
What is it's Scope
Exit Readiness™ is a preparatory process ahead of a potential ownership transition. The focus is to create structural clarity within the business, enabling the owner to decide later whether, when and how an ownership transition should be carried out.
How is the business analysed?
The work is based on a structured assessment of the company’s position and risk profile from a buyer’s perspective. The analysis is carried out through management discussions and a review of existing documentation and data.
Strategic positioning and differentiation
Commercial resilience and scalability
Operating structure and key dependencies
Management and decision-making structure
Legal and regulatory matters
Financial transparency and data quality
Technological and operational platform
Readiness — What Must Be in Place Before a Sale Process.
What do you receive?
When you partner with us, you don’t just get a high-level assessment—you receive a complete strategic roadmap designed to drive real results.
A prioritised overview of risks
Identification of key value drivers
Concrete improvement initiatives
Management and decision-making structure
A realistic implementation timetable
An indication of likely buyer profiles
Time and resources
Exit Readiness™ is typically completed over 1–2 months. As an owner, you should expect to allocate approximately 5–10 hours across the engagement.
The work is based on existing material and structured discussions, and provides a clear snapshot of the company’s current position. It makes visible where effort should be prioritised going forward — and where unnecessary time should not be spent.
We prefer to include a site visit as part of the process, but meetings can also be held online or at a location of your choice, depending on the need for discretion.
What does it mean for value and process?
Structured preparation reduces uncertainty in a later process, strengthens negotiating leverage and increases the likelihood of a controlled transaction. When earnings are normalised, risks are documented and value drivers are clearly articulated, this affects the multiple, valuation (Enterprise Value EV) and transaction quality.
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