Choosing a Business Broker in the UK: Complete Buyer's Guide
A complete buyer's guide to UK business brokers: how Christie & Co, Avondale, Hornblower and the BTA market work, what to expect on fees (5-8% on £500k-£2m deals), AML compliance requirements, and how to evaluate intermediaries before engagement.
# Choosing a Business Broker in the UK: A Buyer's Field Guide After two decades working both sides of the deal table, let me say what most introductions to UK business brokerage carefully avoid. The UK intermediary market is the most developed in Europe, the most fragmented, and the easiest to get wrong if you treat it as commoditised. A good broker is worth ten times their fee. A bad one will burn six months of your time, leak the deal to the wrong people, and put a tepid offer on the table while the deal completes with another buyer three weeks later. This guide is for first-time UK acquirer…