Selling
Exit privately, to a buyer with a genuine reason to acquire, at a value you can defend.
How a sale works →OFF-MARKET · OPERATOR-LED · UK
Confidential business sales for trades, compliance and specialist services.
Build Broker helps owners sell privately to buyers with a real reason to acquire. We prepare the business properly, approach a short list of credible acquirers and manage the process through to completion.
No listing or monthly feesNDA before any detail movesOne senior contact throughoutPart of GIE Capital Ltd
A private sale, run properly.
WHAT WE DO
Most volume brokers list a business, circulate it widely and wait. We work out who should own your business next, prepare it to the standard those buyers expect, and approach them directly and quietly. We take on a limited number of mandates so each one gets senior attention from the first call to completion.
Buying
Register acquisition criteria or retain us to originate proprietary targets in your sector.
How buyers work with us →Four stages, one point of contact.
HOW IT WORKS
1
Confidential assessment
A frank conversation about the business, your reasons, your timing and what buyers are likely to pay. Free, and we tell you if we don't think we can help.
2
Preparation
We build the transaction pack: normalised profit, contract and customer analysis, the story a buyer needs and the issues due diligence will turn up. There is no listing or monthly fee; your first fee is earned when this is delivered.
3
Controlled buyer approach
We map the strategic, private-equity-backed and owner-operator buyers with a reason to acquire, approach them under NDA and you approve who sees what.
4
Negotiation and completion
Offers, heads of terms, due diligence and legal completion, managed by the same person throughout.
WHAT YOU GET
Specific work, not a listing.
- A written view of what your business is likely to be worth and to whom, before you commit to anything.
- A transaction pack prepared to the standard a private-equity investment committee expects.
- A named buyer list built for your business, approved by you before anyone is contacted.
- No listing or monthly fees. A preparation fee, earned on delivery of the pack and credited against the success fee.
- One senior contact from first call to completion.
- Your accountant and solicitor stay involved. We work alongside them, not around them.
RECENT ACTIVITY
Who is buying.
Acquisitions announced by the buyers themselves, logged here so owners can see who is active in their sector and at what scale.
10 Jul 2026Pace Group (LDC-backed) acquired Bradford Lifts and Atlas Lifts & ServicesShipley and Aberdeen · Lift maintenance · LDCSource ↗
6 Jul 2026Ranger Fire & Security (Inflexion-backed) acquired CIA Fire and Security and AKD Fire and SecurityCirencester and North West · Fire and security · InflexionSource ↗
If you're thinking about a sale, start with a conversation.
Start a confidential conversationor call 01277 674 800