Steven Mather Solicitor
A free plain English guide to selling an owner-managed business: the stages, where deals get stuck, and which documents actually matter. Written for owners, not for solicitors.
Selling a business is the biggest transaction most owners ever do, and almost all of them are doing it for the first time. The other side has usually done it before. This guide is my attempt to level that up a bit.
It is written for owners rather than for other solicitors, so there is no Latin and very little law for its own sake.
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