UK Business Sales · One System, End to End

Find your buyerExit on your terms.

MyBusinessAcquisitions takes a business sale from first contact to signed agreement inside a single system. Not a listings site. Not a directory. The place the deal actually gets done.

Free to listNo retainerAnonymised until NDAAny deal size
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ManufacturingIFA FirmsAccountancy PracticesSaaSE-commerceHospitalityHealthcareLogisticsWealth ManagementMortgage BrokeragesConstructionProfessional ServicesRecruitmentRetailEngineeringFood & Beverage
ManufacturingIFA FirmsAccountancy PracticesSaaSE-commerceHospitalityHealthcareLogisticsWealth ManagementMortgage BrokeragesConstructionProfessional ServicesRecruitmentRetailEngineeringFood & Beverage

The problem, honestly stated

The largest financial event of your life, runs in the dark.

Weeks pass. Your broker says things are progressing. You do not know what the buyer has agreed to, what is still open, or whether the person on the other side is serious.

Nine to eighteen months

That is how long a typical sale runs, and most of it is silence.

Paid whether or not it completes

Three to five per cent, plus a retainer of £5,000 to £15,000 up front.

Four out of five never sell

Roughly 80% of listed businesses do not find a buyer at all.

You cannot see what is happening

You find out where you stand when someone finally sends a document.

Buyers have the mirror problem: quality deal flow is invisible, everything worth having is off-market, and searching means manual work through listings that are mostly stale. Both sides end up paying professionals to be the only ones who can see the whole picture.

The Deal Room

Where a conversation becomes an agreement.

When both sides sign an NDA, they enter a Deal Room. Every term is tracked separately and visibly. Red means open. Amber means countered. Green means both sides have explicitly agreed the same figure.

Beside the ledger, the Memorandum of Understanding assembles itself as terms go green. Terms not yet agreed appear as visible gaps rather than silent omissions — you can always see what is still missing.

  • Four document tiers that unlock as the deal progresses
  • Every view watermarked with the viewer’s name, logged, revocable instantly
  • A private caucus the other side can never see — enforced at the database

Term ledger

6/9 agreed

  • Consideration£4,250,000Agreed
  • Structure70 / 30Agreed
  • Completion timing31 MarAgreed
  • Warranties18 monthsAgreed
  • EmployeesTUPE, allAgreed
  • PropertyLease novatedAgreed
  • Earn-out£500,000Countered
  • Exclusivity8 weeksCountered
  • Completion conditionsOpen
OpenCounteredAgreed by both

Memorandum of understanding

Heads of terms — subject to contract

  1. 01Total consideration of £4,250,000.
  2. 0270% payable at completion, 30% deferred over 24 months.
  3. 03Completion on or before 31 March.
  4. 04Warranty period of 18 months from completion.
  5. 05All employees transfer under TUPE on existing terms.
  6. 06Trading lease novated to the buyer at completion.
  7. 07Earn-out — not yet agreed
  8. 08Exclusivity — not yet agreed
  9. 09Completion conditions — not yet agreed

Illustrative example. Both parties should take independent legal advice before signing anything binding.

Marcus · the AI Deal Broker

Marcus runs the negotiation.

He interviews both sides first

Why you are selling, your timeline, your red lines, what matters beyond price. He carries that into every room.

He turns a position into a proposal

Written, specific, on the table — and he rewrites hostile phrasing into something the other side can respond to, before it lands.

He keeps the agenda moving

He identifies which gaps are bridgeable, proposes the bridge, and chases the side that has gone quiet.

He talks with you privately

By voice or text, in your caucus. What you say to him there stays there.

He is neutral, and openly aligned with the deal completing.

Marcus does not take a side between buyer and seller. He does want the deal done. We say that plainly rather than claiming an impartiality no platform paid on completion could honestly claim.

He never invents a number.

Every figure Marcus uses comes from the deterministic valuation engine, or from a position one of you actually put on the table. That is enforced in code, not by instruction. And we are not pretending Marcus is a person.

Origination

Most marketplaces wait for listings. We generate them.

A buyer tells Marcus what they are looking for — sector, size, region, what they will not touch. That becomes a targeted search across UK company data, qualified, and approached directly.

A business owner who was not thinking about selling hears from us, has a conversation, and enters a Deal Room with a funded buyer already waiting.

That machinery took years to build. It is why the platform does not depend on inbound traffic to work.

How we charge, and why

We are paid when you get paid.

Free

To list. No retainer, nothing to pay up front.

2%

On a sale. That is the whole fee.

Half / half

Half falls due on signing, half when the funds actually transfer.

If the deal does not complete, we have not earned anything. That is deliberate. An industry that charges retainers has no particular reason to care whether a deal closes.

What makes this different

The short answer.

The old way

  • £5,000–£15,000 retainer before anything happens
  • 3–5% success fee
  • You find out where you stand when a document arrives
  • Your broker holds the whole picture
  • Nine to eighteen months, mostly silence
  • Documents by email, no control once sent
  • Buyer quality unknown until it is too late

MyBusinessAcquisitions

  • Free to list, no retainer
  • 2%, half on signing, half on funds transferred
  • Every term visible, live, to both sides
  • Both parties see the same thing at the same time
  • Continuous, visible progress
  • Tiered access, watermarked, logged, revocable
  • Funding verified before access

Specialist Advisers

Every transaction. Fully supported.

Specialist advisers across every stage of your transaction. We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice.

Due Diligence Accounting

Accountancy Specialists

Transaction Dispute Resolution

Independent Mediators

Post-Sale Succession Planning

Estate Planning Specialists

Talent Retention

Recruitment and Retention Specialists

Legal-grade Documentation

Drafted by qualified solicitors

Tax Advisory

Capital gains, BADR, structuring

Confidentiality & control

Enforced at the data layer, not promised in a policy.

ICO Registered & GDPR Compliant

Your data is handled to UK regulatory standards.

Anonymised until NDA

Sector, region, turnover band and an indicative range. Identity stays hidden until an NDA is signed.

Watermarked, logged, revocable

Every document view carries the viewer's name and is recorded. Access can be withdrawn instantly.

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UK SMEs in our market

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of UK businesses are SMEs

No ceiling

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sectors covered

Start with a number.
Then decide what to do with it.

Free valuation. Free to list. Nothing to pay until a deal completes.

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