Corporate Development

We help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) manage their growth through the risky stages of change and development into stable, attractive businesses. You have established products or services and have matched them to a proven market, so you have an enviable skill set and experience. How do you scale your operations, expand into new markets and grow the business from here? Whether you have been operating for decades or have only recently established your business or are a foreign business entering the UK for the first time, the next stages can be filled with unexpected challenges. We can provide support and guidance on this journey:
• Business models will need re-alignment to optimise company resources with changing markets and growing business scale.
• Strategic planning will need to become more disciplined and robust as greater values are exposed to business risk.
• Operations structures will need reviewing and changing to fit with the growth of the business.
• New sources of capital may be needed to fund the new business initiatives validated in your strategic planning.
• Corporate Governance and control processes will need modifying commensurate with the growth in volume and complexity of business or to suit the providers of new capital
• Timing of the incremental steps that you take will be critical during this stage of growth, where it is easy to “spend tomorrow’s profits today

For a small team of owner-operators, this can be a lonely row across the “sea of zero profits” to reach the economies of scale and financial stability beyond. Whether as a sounding board, interim manager, strategic advisor, negotiator or business developer, we can help you to grow your company and reduce the risk of failure.