How do I find a business to buy?

How to go about finding the right business purchase opportunity

There are numerous ways of sourcing a deal. You may have already been into the market and done some searching. This might be your first foray into searching and you don’t know where to start. You may even have a specific target business in your sights but you haven’t been able to progress too far.

The biggest challenge private buyers face is gaining credibility and traction with the sell side advisers. Private buyers are not taken too seriously by sellers advisers as they are deemed to be the poor relation to a trade or private equity buyer. There is some truth in this idea; the reason being