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Hi 'financial analyst', many thanks for your excellent points.
I've no pressing desire to sell and be subsumed by the purchasing company; however £££ talks and it all depends how much they are prepared to pay. Good point about not needing to sell the whole company, instead selling them a...
Thanks a lot Dominic, some excellent points to consider. If there's a possibility that that are may ant to make me redundant within a relatively short period and I have to put up with a non-compete clause, that puts more reason on me to to push for a higher sale figure to offset this.
I'll...
Thank you, most useful.
My company is now really a company; although it began as vehicle to bill for contracting work, Ive now got a good list of clients who come back on a regular basis who I do project work for. The buying company gets access to this. The company who are interested in...
Many thanks for your replies.
Even if I did go for the 'signing bonus' route how would I work out what that should reasonably be?! I don't really want to pick a figure out of the air. What I didn't mention (and should have) is that they want to keep my company name and website as it has quite...
I set up my limited company in 2008 to in order to contract. Contracts lasted about 2 years and since then I've been freelancing. My main client offered me a job about 6 months ago but I politely declined. Now they've told me they want to acquire my company so that they can bring my services...