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Attend this webinar on Thursday the 25thth February, 12-1pm to learn the secrets of planning to successfully sell your business.

According to the Institute of Directors 80% from Business owners see their business as their retirement savings – still 48% said they did not have an exit plan.

The current business environment during COVID-19 has caused shocks with different effects in different industries. A general trend towards M&A activity will increase in 2021 expected keep going. Exits increased significantly in the fourth quarter of 2020, with the best fourth quarter global results in this segment since 2018.

There has never been a better time to work on creating value for the company, consolidating, and preparing for a successful exit. Strategies to Prepare for Exit to Add Value are Key as we are in one buyers’ market in the this time of the pandemic.

There are significant shifts between pre- and post-pandemic assessments, with business models in transition and changing in the future. In addition, entrepreneurs now need to consider non-traditional sources of value such as resilience and commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

“The introduction of vaccines restores confidence in the economy and raises expectations of increasing growth rates and margins. Most economists expect low (or negative) interest rates to continue for some time. “ (PwC Global M&A Trends Report)

speaker

Christiane Hutchinson

Christiane is the founder and CEO of Biramis Management partner, a multiple award-winning Expert advice for exit value creation. She has over 25 years of strategic business consulting experience and a global career in France, Japan, the UK and Ireland. She lives in Manchester and leads a value creation team.

Turlough O’Sullivan

Turlough is the company’s chairman and director, mediator, and independent corporate organization and strategy advisor, and mentor of a number of Managing directors and executives. Turlough was the general manager of lBEC (Irish Business and Employers Confederation) for nine years. During this time he was a board member of Business Europe – the body that represents companies across the European Union. He has also served on the board of directors of the National Economic and Social Council, the Industrial Relations Commission and the National Executive Board, which were set up under national partnership agreements. As well as chairman of Biramis Ireland based in Dublin, Turlough, is the managing director of Resolve Ireland – an independent company providing services in the investigation and mediation of workplace problems in both the private and public sectors.

Neil Keenan

Neil is Partner and Head of Corporate at ByrneWallace LLP, a full service corporate law firm based in Dublin.

Valerie Moran

Valerie is the richest black woman in Britain. She is the only black woman to ever make the Sunday Times Rich List in over 30 years after its publication. From Forbes to CNN to the BBC, who lives in the studio with Sky News and a feature in OK Magazine, their story of diversity and inclusion has caught the public’s imagination. In August 2019, Valerie was named one of the UK’s 10 Best Entrepreneurs. In 2020, she left Prepaid Financial Services, the company she founded with her husband Noel Moran in 2008, and grew it into one of the world’s leading fintech companies. Valerie is currently Head of Client Services & Operations at eCOMM Merchant Solutions, a company she and her husband started in 2014. She is the UK Financial Times FT 100 BAME Leader and an official member of the Forbes Business Development Council.

Stirling Austin

Stirling has established, managed, sold, acquired and merged manufacturing and distribution companies across Europe, including the creation of four companies and two divisions from scratch. He founded NIM Europe Management, an interim management company, and sold the company directly to an acquirer interested in buying a “stepping stone” business that could be taken to the next level while skipping all the challenges that came with the establishment of the brand and the goodwill were connected and processes. Today the company is one of the leading interim management companies in France. After 15 years in France, Stirling decided to return to the UK and now runs Pixel Executive – a digital services agency specializing in bespoke and multilingual websites based in Manchester.

Michelle Walshe

Michelle sold her business, one of Ireland’s largest bacon and sous vide producers, to a grocery group – one arm to a private equity portfolio of companies. This enabled all family members to successfully exit.

Ronan Byrne

Ronan is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully built and left multiple companies in a number of sectors including Beverly Records Management, Engage Technologies, and clarity Innovations. He is also the founder of Latch Medical, which develops novel drug delivery technologies.