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For business owners

Sell a business privately in the UK.

A discreet alternative to a formal sale process. Review the acquisition mandates already on the register, and open a confidential conversation only where the fit is real.

Most owner-managed sales attract three to five credible buyers. The register is designed to bring those buyers to you without a public marketing process, so staff, customers and suppliers hear nothing while you decide whether a sale is right at all.

How a private sale works on the register

  • Review the published mandates, each carries a project reference such as BW000295.
  • Where a requirement fits, quote the reference in a short confidential message via our contact form.
  • Our team introduces the acquirer under standard confidentiality; you remain anonymous until you choose otherwise.
  • Terms, structure and timing are agreed directly with the acquirer, the register does not broker.

Where a formal process is still right

Highly strategic assets, distressed sales and regulated auctions belong in a formal process run by a corporate finance adviser. The register is for the far more common case: a profitable UK SME whose owner wants to preserve optionality until a genuine buyer is in the room.

Take the next step

Considering a private sale?

Submit your business confidentially. We review every enquiry and only introduce credible acquirers, discreetly.

Confidential. Manually reviewed. No public listing without your approval.