Navigating your private equity journey

BDO LLP | PRIVATE EQUITY

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To help you create this narrative, we will encourage you to work through the following questions: • Can you show that you operate in an attractive market? • Can you describe the competitive advantage of your products and services? How will you maintain this advantage in the future? • Do you have a clear growth strategy? • Are you able to prove your ability to recruit and retain high quality staff? • Can you show that your customer economics are profitable? • Does the business have high quality revenue? • Will your financial forecasts stand up to scrutiny? Are they realistic and backed up with historic data? • Can you prove that your business is well managed using insight data, management processes and KPIs?

WHAT NEXT? Kick-starting your PE journey is an exciting but all-consuming experience. With a BDO advisor on board, we can do all the heavy lifting, leaving you free to focus on the business and continue to build that value and performance you’re trying to sell. You can find out more about the PE process and how BDO can help you at each stage of your journey by visiting our dedicated PE micro-site . In 2020, BDO completed 316 deals worth £14.5bn, 58% of our deals involved Private Equity.

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