Tuesday 26 October 2021

Future Proofing Your Business - Part #4: Back to the Future

15:00 start

Property Academy Trusted Advisor Jo Haigh has bought and sold approximately 400 companies, specialising in owner managed companies. In this final session of the Future Proofing your Business series, Jo outlines some of the options for owners looking to exit their business.

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Back to the Future

Whilst you may have some ideas of what you envisage your future to look like, it is very possible you have not considered every possible avenue. It’s also a fact that your initial thoughts on your dream destination may change.

There are multiple exit options:

  • A sale but to whom and is it all of the business, or just a part but them what?
  • A sale to the staff, via an MBO or a mysterious EOT, but how will they fund it and do they have the capability?
  • Don’t sell - create a legacy business, but for whom is the legacy and how will you be remunerated?

This session will equip you with knowledge of:

  • What are the multiple exit options available, including the pros and cons of each?
  • when to start planning for the future?
  • What road blocks may you encounter?

Jo Haigh is the CEO and founder of fds, which is a corporate finance house with bases in London, Birmingham and Yorkshire. Since 1989 Jo has bought and sold approximately 400 companies, specialising in owner managed companies.

In the 90s Jo created a specialist director training division, which has been highly successful since inception. She is a regular presenter on corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions for prestigious organisations across the UK and Europe.

Jo has been presented with many prestigious industry awards such as the IoD Yorkshire & North East regional awards Non-Exec Director of The Year, the Business Service Award on behalf of the CBI, First Women Awards, The Sunday Times NED of the Year, in association with Peel Hunt and Business Advisor of the Year from the IoD. In addition, Jo is also the author of five bestselling business support books.

Jo also provides board support via her Non-Executive Director appointments for a number of prestigious companies based across England and the Isle of Man.

Jo Haigh

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