Exit Readiness for Founders.
Sell for more, on your terms, when you choose.
The 18–36 month program that prepares founder-led mid-market businesses for a premium sale — cleaner financials, real optionality, stronger valuation.
Free tools below — scorecard, valuation, net proceeds. Bring the output to our first call.
Most exits happen too early, at a discount, and with terms founders regret. We work with owners 18–36 months before a likely transaction to change that. Structured preparation, a clean data room, a clear equity story, and a tested buyer universe consistently translate into higher multiples and greater deal certainty.
Empirically, well-prepared mid-market businesses close at EBITDA multiples 10–25% higher than reactive sales of comparable companies. On a €30m EBITDA business, that is €30m–€75m of incremental enterprise value — versus a €300k–€800k preparation cost.
Founder-led businesses, €10m–€250m revenue.
- Founder-led or founder-majority-owned mid-market businesses.
- 2–4 years from a likely exit event.
- Revenue €10m–€250m, EBITDA €2m–€40m.
- Open to senior advice on structural issues — not just transaction execution.
Boundaries, stated upfront.
- We don't take over your company.
- We don't replace your CFO.
- We don't sell your business — that's the M&A team's job, and it comes after.
- We don't promise valuations we haven't stress-tested.
Diagnostic · roadmap · dry run — monthly cadence in between.
Readiness diagnostic
A senior team reads your business the way a buyer would. Output: a scored Deal Readiness assessment across five pillars — Marché, Finance, Opérationnel, Management, Juridique — prioritised value-creation roadmap, indicative valuation range, and the three issues most likely to reprice your deal.
Value roadmap execution
Quarterly working rhythm against the top value-drivers: equity story, financial quality, founder dependency, and buyer universe mapping. We define the probable acquirer set — strategic and financial — early, and prepare the business against their real criteria. Not a generic checklist. Monthly cadence between sessions.
Pre-market dry run
Vendor-side due diligence. A third party stress-tests the business against real buyer questions — you remediate before go-to-market, not during exclusivity. The data room is clean. The equity story is pressure-tested. Buyers find no surprises.
Hand-off to sell-side process
The same senior partner leads the sell-side mandate. Curated buyer outreach to the universe defined in Phase 02 — no re-learning the business, no cold buyer list assembled from scratch at the last moment.
Before a conversation, know where you stand.
Our platform tools give you a working picture of your exit readiness and valuation before we meet. Run them in 15 minutes. Bring the output to the first call — or use it to decide if now is the right time.
Exit Readiness Scorecard
Ten questions. Scored across the five Deal Readiness pillars buyers evaluate — Marché, Finance, Opérationnel, Management, Juridique. You get a readiness band and a short read on what to work on next.
Run the scorecard →EBITDA Multiple Estimator
Enter your EBITDA, sector, and growth rate. Get an indicative enterprise value range calibrated against current mid-market multiples in France and Switzerland.
Estimate my valuation →Net Proceeds Calculator
From headline price to what lands in your account — after debt, earnouts, tax, advisor fees, and escrow. The number that matters is rarely the headline.
Calculate net proceeds →Bring your scorecard and valuation to a 20-minute working session. We'll tell you what the engagement would actually look like for your business.
What founders ask us most.
How long before selling should I start preparing?
What multiple will my business sell for?
What's the difference between exit readiness and an M&A process?
Do I need an M&A advisor if I already have offers?
Should I use a broker or an investment bank?
What is Quality of Earnings?
How long does a sell-side process take?
What is an earn-out and should I accept one?
Will I have to stay on after the sale?
What does engagement look like?
Last updated · April 2026
Get a preliminary buyer landscape for your business.
Tell us your sector, size, and geography. We'll send you a curated list of strategic and financial acquirers actively buying businesses like yours — segmented, with a brief rationale for each category. No generic output. This is what Phase 02 of the engagement starts with.
- ✓ Strategic acquirers by rationale
- ✓ Financial sponsors with relevant platforms
- ✓ France & Switzerland focus, EMEA coverage
- ✓ Sent within 48 business hours
The offer isn't the proceeds. The terms are.
A well-prepared exit gets you to a competitive process with a credible buyer universe. What lands in your account is determined by what happens after the letter of intent (LOI) — the working capital peg, earnout structure, vendor loan, tax treatment, warranties, and escrow position.
Competitive sell-side process
A curated buyer universe, structured auction, and senior-partner-led buyer management. Typically 15–40% higher headline price versus a single-buyer negotiation.
M&A execution →Whole Transaction Maximiser
Twelve levers — working capital peg, earnout, vendor loan, tax treatment, warranties, escrow, lock-up — reviewed from the seller's side before you sign anything. Three proceeds views: headline, risk-adjusted, and after-tax net.
Whole Transaction Maximiser →Buyer Q&A and closing
Senior partners stay in the room through diligence, buyer Q&A, and SPA negotiation. The same team that prepared the exit sees it through to closing — no handover, no re-learning curve.
Talk to a partner →We prepare the business backwards — from the buyer.
Start from the likely buyer
We define the probable acquirer universe early and prepare against their real criteria — not a generic checklist. Every workstream is chosen because a specific buyer will test it.
Six diagnostic lenses, five pillars
Revenue quality, pricing power, customer concentration, margin sustainability, scalability, cash conversion — each tied to a multiple or a discount, and each mapped into one of the five Deal Readiness pillars, not a separate scale of its own.
Beyond the margin illusion
Headline EBITDA is not the number a buyer pays for. We trace margin to its drivers — realised vs list pricing, hidden costs, procurement, profit by customer and segment — before the books open.
AI as value and as risk
Where AI drives earnings we evidence it as durable value; where it creates exposure we de-risk it — AI-durability and EU AI Act — so a buyer cannot reprice on it.
The backdrop we prepare for: buyers pay for the quality and sustainability of earnings, and — for sponsor-owned assets — LPs increasingly judge on distributions to paid-in capital (DPI), cash actually returned, not paper internal rate of return (IRR). That is why readiness is engineered from Day 1, not assembled six months before a sale.
Curious where you stand? Score yourself in 5 minutes.
Our Exit Readiness Scorecard runs ten diagnostic questions and returns a band from Not ready to Exit-ready, with a short read on what to work on next.