Your guide to UK business sales, every Monday.

A free weekly guide to UK M&A for owners, directors and advisers.
Deals this week including insights on valuation, trends and sectors.

In every issue

The UK deal market, in one short read

Drawn from announcements, Companies House filings, company and adviser press releases and the regional business press, checked and summarised every week for ease of reading and quality insights.

Deals of the week

The key UK private company deals, with available information on buyer, target, sector, region, and price and multiple where disclosed.

The Multiples board

Disclosed valuation multiples by sector, so you can see what buyers are actually paying.

Deal Terms Explained

One deal concept in plain English each week.

The week in one line

The headline trend, up front, for when you only have thirty seconds.

Worth watching

Rumoured and pending deals to keep an eye on in the weeks ahead.

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Guides and reports

Practical guides to selling and buying a business

Adviser-grade material at a fraction of advisory fees.

Available now · Guide 1

Preparing your business for sale

How to add value, remove risk and get ready two to three years before you sell. Written for owners of UK private companies with £1m–£50m turnover.

A step-by-step preparation timeline
Getting your numbers sale-ready, with a worked normalised EBITDA example
UK market benchmarks, deal structures and case studies
Alternatives to a trade sale: EOTs, MBOs and private equity
A 20-point readiness scorecard and red-flags checklist

PDF guide + Excel workbook

£39

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Includes a self-scoring readiness scorecard, normalisation worksheet, data-room index and 24-month action plan.

More guides on the way

Selling

Coming soon · £39 each

2. How UK businesses are valued
3. The sale process, step by step
4. Due diligence and the data room
5. Deal structures and earn-outs
6. Tax when selling your business

Deal documents

Coming soon · £39 each

7. Heads of terms and negotiating the deal
8. The sale agreement explained

Buying

Coming soon · £39 each

9. Buying a business
10. Financing an acquisition
11. Management buy-outs and buy-ins
12. After completion: the first 100 days

Subscribers hear first when each guide is released, along with bundle offers for the full set.

Sector valuation reports

£39 · updated quarterly · coming soon

What businesses in your sector sell for: recent UK deals, multiples and the factors driving value.

Bespoke valuations

£299 · tailored to your company · coming soon

An indicative, bespoke valuation range prepared for your own business.

About

Deal knowledge, outside the advisory firm

DealGuide UK is curated by a Chartered Accountant and M&A Adviser with in depth technical knowledge of UK private company transactions.

Typically deal coverage tends to focus on the big listed transactions. DealGuide UK covers the private-company deals that owners and advisers actually measure themselves against, and explains them clearly.

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DealGuide UK provides general information about UK M&A. It is not financial, legal or tax advice.
Deal figures come from public sources and may be incomplete.