Insights

The questions business owners ask — and our answers.

Valuation, selling a business, succession, LBOs, fundraising: in-depth articles drawn from our M&A advisory practice — written to help you decide, not to fill a library.

Sale & succession

Qualifying a buyer before opening your books

An owner who has been approached often opens the books before knowing what the buyer wants to acquire. Three questions to put in writing — share of capital, price range, who decides — and why to ask them again at every follow-up.

Read the article October 2026
LBO & buyouts

What a lender looks at in a buyout file

A lender does not finance an accounting result: it finances debt-service capacity. How that capacity is demonstrated — adjusted EBITDA — and why the signatory who attests it matters as much as the figure.

Read the article October 2026
Fundraising

Choosing an investor: valuation is not the deciding factor

Between two offers, the reflex is to take the higher valuation. The useful question lies elsewhere: what does the business need that money does not provide? The case of an SME that raised funds on the market it wanted to enter.

Read the article October 2026
Strategic advisory

What is my business worth?

Many owners know their revenue by heart. Few know what their business is worth. Why valuation comes before every shareholder decision — and what destroys value at the negotiating table.

Read the article August 2026
LBO & buyouts

How is an SME buyout financed?

Finding the target is only half the journey. The other half: assembling a financing package — equity, debt, partners — that the business can actually carry. The decisive question is not the price.

Read the article August 2026
Fundraising & financing

Funding your business without equity or debt?

The Tour de France sells no tickets, yet funds one of the world's largest events. Customer financing, firm commitments, monetised attractiveness: widen the field of sources before choosing the instrument.

Read the article August 2026
Sale & succession

Should you run a competitive sale process?

The same asset, two offers, roughly 21% apart within six weeks: only the number of buyers had changed. Why a single acquirer sets the pace and the price — and how competitive tension is engineered.

Read the article August 2026
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