How to Sell Your Business in the UK: The Complete Owner's Guide
Selling a UK business involves valuation, finding the right buyer, navigating legal due diligence, and optimising tax including Business Asset Disposal Relief (formerly Entrepreneurs' Relief). This guide walks UK owner-managers aged 50–65 through every phase of the sale process, from initial diagnostic to completion, with practical timelines, key advisers, and the British Business Bank and IoD resources available.
# How to Sell Your Business in the UK: The Complete Owner's Guide Selling the company you spent twenty or thirty years building is rarely a clean financial transaction. It is messy, emotional and unforgiving of shortcuts. In the UK, the process sits inside a particular tax, legal and institutional framework that rewards owners who plan ahead, and quietly punishes those who don't. This guide is written for owner-managers in their fifties and sixties, whether you run a precision-engineering business in the Midlands, a consultancy in the City, or a retailer in Edinburgh. A note up front: the sing…