About this site

Business Exit describes the sale of a company from the position of the person selling it. Not the legal mechanics, which are covered well elsewhere, but the sequence of decisions and what each one feels like when it arrives.

Why it is written this way

Owners of small companies rarely sell more than once. Everyone else at the table has done it many times. That imbalance is the reason so many sellers describe the process afterwards as something that happened to them rather than something they ran.

What is here

• Nine stages, from the first doubt to the last handover call
• Ten questions that come up in almost every first conversation
• Six situations that owners recognise
• Four pieces about the period after signing

Where transactions take place

This site describes a process; it does not run one. Companies offered for sale across Europe, valuations and investigations are handled by Businessforsale.eu (https://www.businessforsale.eu/), whose knowledge base carries detailed articles on individual subjects.

Accuracy

Tax rules, employment protection and contract practice differ per country and change over time. Nothing here replaces advice on a specific transaction.