Business & operations advisory · Operational due diligence
Operations that protect value.
Operational due diligence and business advisory from Leeds, UK. Through growth, diligence and a change of ownership, we make how your business runs clear, documented and provable.
Preparing for a sale
Protect your value: be ready before the data room opens, and supported through to completion.
Find out more → Your needAcquiring a business
Understand how the target really runs, size the operational risk, and be ready for Day 1.
Find out more → Your needScaling the business
From startup to scale-up: predictable, quicker to onboard, less dependent on a few people.
Find out more → For advisersAn operational workstream for your deals
For corporate finance advisers, lawyers and accountants.
Working with advisers →Our services
Three services, one way of working.
Operational due diligence preparation
We review the operation as a buyer’s diligence team will, and help you address what we find before the data room opens.
Typically a 3–6 week readiness reviewFind out more →During a transactionOperational due diligence support
The operational workstream during diligence: evidenced Q&A for sellers, operational diligence of the target for acquirers.
2–4 weeks buy-side · days to weeks sell-sideFind out more →Growth and baselineOperational process review
A structured review of how the business runs today, and a short, ranked plan for what to change.
Typically a 3–6 week reviewFind out more →The UK mid-market today
Most sales are won or lost on preparation.
of UK mid-market sale processes start with the seller's price set too high.
Dealsuite UK&I M&A Monitor, Aug 2026average gap between those expectations and what buyers will pay.
Dealsuite, Aug 2026of buyers say mid-market businesses are rarely well prepared for sale.
Marriott Harrison / Censuswide, Jul 2026months from mandate to completion for half of adviser-led UK sales.
Dealsuite UK&I M&A Monitor, Feb 2026Insights
Thinking on value, diligence and growth.
Carving out a business unit: the TSA starts with the systems.
Six months, 100 systems in scope: why preparing the transition services agreement against systems and data secures the sale.
From quick wins to embedded quality.
Fewer major risks, more small deviations: how operational control has to mature as a business grows.
Half of UK sellers price too high. What buyers see instead.
The 23% gap between expectation and offer, and the operational reasons behind it.
How we work
Business, process and data analysts.
- Business analysisWhat the business does, for whom, and what it depends on.
- Process analysisWho does what, with which rules and controls, and where it relies on one person.
- Data reconciliationWhether reported figures tie back to the systems that produce them.
Tell us where you are. We will tell you where to start.
The first conversation is free, and sometimes the honest answer is “not yet”.