Sell for What
Your Business
Is Actually Worth.
You built this business over years. The sale will take months. The gap between what a buyer offers and what the business is worth is almost always the gap between having the right adviser and not having one. Achieve Corporation runs a confidential, senior-led process designed to close that gap β completely.
Five Stages.
One Outcome.
Maximum Value.
Most business owners sell once in a lifetime. Most buyers have done this dozens of times. That asymmetry β in experience, in information, in negotiating leverage β is the single biggest threat to your final number.
Achieve Corporation's five-stage process is designed to neutralise that asymmetry at every stage. Forensic preparation. Qualified buyers. Structured negotiation. Clean completion.
Average mandate-to-completion: 26 weeks. Every stage is milestone-led. Nothing moves until it is ready.
Confidential Discovery & NDA
Your outcome, your timeline, your non-negotiables. We surface the commercial and personal objectives that will shape the entire deal structure β deferred consideration, retain-and-earn, clean break, management continuity. Confidentiality is legally ringfenced from day one. No public disclosure. No team disruption. Nothing leaks.
Investor-Grade Valuation & Information Memorandum
FMVA-standard financial modelling. DCF, EV/EBITDA multiples, precedent transactions. The valuation is not produced to support a predetermined number β it is produced to hold under institutional scrutiny. The Information Memorandum is written to make qualified buyers compete, not to give them ammunition to negotiate down.
Precision Market & Buyer Engagement
Your business is not advertised publicly. Buyers are identified, assessed, and ranked before any approach is made. Strategic acquirers are mapped against their stated acquisition criteria. PE funds are qualified against investment mandate and deployment timeline. Only buyers who meet the threshold receive the blind teaser. Your name is never mentioned before an NDA is signed.
Structured Negotiation & Heads of Terms
80% data, 20% EQ. We present competing offers simultaneously to maintain tension and pricing discipline. Deal structure is negotiated in full β price, form of consideration, conditions, warranties, earn-out mechanics, management obligations. We do not allow buyers to treat Heads of Terms as the opening position for further price reduction.
Due Diligence, SPA & Seamless Completion
The diligence pack is prepared before buyers ask for it. Every data room document is organised to institutional standard. We coordinate legal, financial, and tax advisers without allowing the process to fragment. The SPA is reviewed line by line for warranty and indemnity exposure. Completion is managed to protect both the financial outcome and the business relationships that continue beyond it.
Senior-Partner Access.
Institutional Standards.
Achieve Corporation does not operate on volume. We take a limited number of sell-side mandates each quarter. Every client gets Mark Ross Roberts β not a team lead, not an account manager, not a junior analyst. Every deliverable meets the standard we apply to institutional mandates.
Live Buyer Hot-List
Active access to mandated corporates and PE funds currently deploying capital. Not a database. Not a directory. Real relationships, real deal appetite, real timing.
Total Confidentiality
Your team does not know. Your customers do not know. Your competitors do not know. Process is run entirely under NDA with blind teasers until the buyer is qualified and signed.
Forensic Valuation
FMVA-standard financial modelling. DCF, trading comparables, transaction precedents. The number is defensible, not aspirational β which is precisely why it holds through due diligence.
24/7 Senior Availability
We work your hours, including weekends, to keep deal momentum unbroken. When a buyer moves, we respond. Delays kill deals. We eliminate the delays we control.
Legal Cost Shield
Our in-house Heads of Terms and SPA review process saves sellers up to 40% on legal fees by arriving at the lawyer's desk with structure already agreed.
Adaptive Deal Strategy
If market conditions shift mid-process, we adapt without losing price integrity or momentum. The framework is forensic. The execution is responsive. The outcome is protected.
The Adviser You Instruct
Determines the Price
You Accept.
The business broker model works on volume. Their incentive is speed and completed transactions β not your maximum price. They will discount your multiple to close faster, and they will send your Information Memorandum to every name in a database rather than the qualified buyers who will pay the most for what you have built.
The large corporate finance house model works on mandate size. Below Β£20 million enterprise value, your deal gets the junior team. You are a training exercise, not a priority.
Achieve Corporation works on a different model. Senior-partner engagement. Institutional standards. Fixed-fee structure so our incentives align with your outcome, not our billing rate.
"We do not produce numbers that support a predetermined answer. We produce numbers that hold β wherever the conversation goes next."
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No volume targets
A limited number of sell-side mandates are taken each quarter. Your transaction is not one of fifty β it is one of four.
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FMVA-qualified modelling
Every financial model is produced to Corporate Finance Institute standard β the same standard applied to institutional mandates at Β£3.2 billion group level.
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Fixed-fee, not open-ended billing
You know the cost before the work begins. No hourly billing surprises. No open-ended retainer scope creep. Transparency from engagement letter to completion.
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Real-time market intelligence
We are active in the market every week. Current sector multiples, current buyer appetite, current deal structures β not last year's benchmark data from a published report.
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30 years. One focus.
UK mid-market M&A advisory. Β£5 million to Β£75 million enterprise value. Not generalist corporate advisory. Not accountancy with occasional deal work. This is all we do.
20 Minutes.
Complete Clarity.
One focused conversation with Mark Ross Roberts. Confidential. No pitch deck. No junior team taking notes. You leave with three things no one else will give you in a free call:
- A realistic enterprise value range for your business β today, at current market multiples
- A timeline-locked roadmap to a clean exit at your target price
- Direct answers to your three most pressing risk or confidentiality concerns
No obligation · Strictly confidential
See What a Well-Run
Sale Process Delivers.
Every claim on this page is backed by completed transactions. Read the outcomes β anonymised to protect confidentiality, specific enough to be meaningful.
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