Bryn Anderson
Partner
Corporate finance services
Specialist corporate finance support for your entire business lifecycle
A track record built on owner-managed businesses
Learn more about our Corporate Finance team’s recent work and how we have helped these businesses here.
Our success rate in selling businesses
- Success rate of 86%
- A total of 45 engaged sale processes over 3 years from April 2023 to March 2026
- 39 successful completions over 3 years from April 2023 to March 2026
Sector expertise
- Technology and SaaS
- Manufacturing and engineering
- Healthcare across dental, vet, and care homes
- Professional services across legal, accounting, marketing and architecture
- Retail and ecommerce
- Construction and property
- Financial services
- Media and rights
- Utilities and infrastructure
- Land and leisure
What we do
Group 1: Selling, exiting and succession
- Selling your business, including finding buyers and negotiating deals.
- M&A
- Management buyout services (MBOs)
- Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs)
- Valuing your business
Group 2: Buying and growing
- Acquisition search
- Buy-side M&A advisory
- Commercial due diligence
- Financial due diligence
- Vendor due diligence
Group 3: Funding
- Private Equity funding
- Series A and B funding
- Debt advisory services
- Debt funding
Group 4: Strategy and planning
- Strategic planning
- Business forecasting and modelling
- International market development
- Outsourced corporate development
- Shareholder dispute resolution
What our clients say
I felt confident and well-advised every step of the way, and I would highly recommend Price Bailey to any business owner considering a sale.”
Ellyot Doyle, Former Director and Shareholder of Minster Fine Foods
As a buyer, it was a very efficient working with the Price Bailey team. From my perspective they really focused on being pragmatic and listening to the will of the Seller rather than just running the same rigid process.”
Daniel Zhang, CXO and Deputy CFO of Teqnion AB
We thoroughly enjoyed working with Price Bailey again on this project and continuing our productive relationship. The due diligence report was insightful and highlighted areas where value could be found within the transaction, showing a concern for our commercial needs. The team at Price Bailey ensured we remained well-informed throughout the process. Thank you.”
Josh Wade, Head of M&A at OCS
Selling my company with Price Bailey wasn’t even in the top three hardest things I did this year.”
Matthew Rhodes-Brown, Account Media
What sets Price Bailey’s Corporate Finance team apart?
Most Corporate Finance firms start with EBITDA and times it by a generic multiple.
We don’t do this.
We take the time to understand your business properly—how it operates, what drives value, the people behind it and the potential that someone is acquiring.
Our team looks beyond standard benchmarks and considers how different markets may value your business and the stories behind why some businesses sell for a premium and why some don’t. This may mean the right advice is for you to reinvest, adjust the business model or grow for a couple of years and then transact—and sometimes the right answer is to go to market now. Additionally, health, happiness, people and family often drive the timing of the answer. We take all of this into account to help you make the right decision at the right time.
Our more thoughtful, creative approach to understanding your business means that we’re better negotiators with a stronger success rate than our peers.
When you engage Price Bailey to be your Corporate Finance advisers you get to tap into:
Extensive market access
Over 50,000 contacts who engage with our firm.
International capability
Through our membership of IAPA, we provide access to a global network across 70 countries.
Real transaction experience
Our Partners actively buy, sell, and invest in businesses themselves. We put our own money at risk.
Understanding all sides
We act for investors, lenders, and the businesses they support, giving us a genuine understanding of every side of a transaction. This means we have a good steer on how the other side think and what standards they expect from how your company is presented to them at each stage.
Credibility with investors and lenders
We are paid to tell our client to walk away from bad deals. Investors and lenders know this and know that we are advisers – not brokers. This provides us with negotiation clout and gives you more strength.
A large, experienced specialist team
With more than 20 dedicated professionals and 5 Partners, we combine strong technical expertise with proven negotiation skills.
Technical expertise
Some aspects of selling a business are complicated. We have expert accountants and financial analysts with world-leading qualifications and experience to help in these moments.
Honest, commercial advice
We will always give you the right advice – even if that means recommending that now is not the right time to buy, sell, or raise funds. We believe these conversations are best had early.
Leading valuation expertise
We have world leading valuation expertise. Our Valuation team is trusted by leading law firms and intermediaries to deliver robust advice on complex and high-value engagements both in and out of Court. We act as expert witness and we challenge expert witnesses too. If there is a valuation disagreement, you’ll want us on your side.
Transparent and competitive fees
We benchmark our fees with peers across the UK, Europe and the US to ensure they remain fair and competitive. Our fees are middling, our expertise is premium and our fee structures can vary. We seldom work on a success fee only basis.
Deep tax expertise
Our in-house tax specialists support every aspect of transactional and personal tax that is relevant to shareholders and employees buying and selling companies.
Practical support to get deal-ready
We know what a company that’s ready to transact looks like behind the scenes. If your finance team needs additional resource, our outsourcing team can provide targeted support to ensure you are fully prepared to transact.
What questions is our team often asked?
What size deals does Price Bailey advise on?
Our typical deal size is £5m-£50m, with some deal sizes smaller or greater than this.
How long does a typical sale or acquisition take?
A typical sale or acquisition takes 9-12 months, however, it can be as quick as 16 weeks. Ultimately, a sale or acquisition is as fast or as slow as is required.
How are corporate finance fees structured?
Our clients will have a choice on fee structuring, and typical fee structures include a mix of retainers, milestone fees and success fees. We benchmark our fees to ensure they remain fair and competitive.
What's the difference between strategy-led and transaction-led corporate finance advice?
A strategy-led adviser supports you through the entire transaction process, from preparing robust financial information and valuation expectations to positioning your business effectively for different types of buyers. They lead on the financial and commercial negotiations, ensuring that key deal terms, pricing mechanisms, and working capital adjustments are clearly understood and optimised.
They also provide critical advice on tax, accounting policies, and transaction structuring, while guiding you through due diligence, legal documentation, and completion – helping you protect value and avoid issues throughout the deal lifecycle.
Brokers typically operate and charge on a success-fee-only basis, while strategy-led advisers often charge a mix of retained or milestone fees and success fees.
In our experience, transaction-led corporate finance advice (brokers) often add minimal value to a business as they are heavily focused on finding the buyer and agreeing a headline price and lack the skills, knowledge and experience to move a deal through the issues that follow on from the scope items.
Can you act for both buyers and sellers?
Only in limited circumstances e.g. friendly MBOs.
Do you work outside of London and East Anglia?
Yes, we support businesses across the UK and internationally.
Do your projects change between trade sales, MBOs, EOTs?
Yes, we balance the need of the shareholders and buyers.
Ready to see how our Corporate Finance team can help you?
Book a free 30-minute introductory call with one of our Corporate Finance team members today. We’d love to find out more about your situation and talk through what an engagement will look like.
Meet our Corporate Finance Partners...
Corporate finance services are provided by Price Bailey LLP. For details about our regulatory status, see www.pricebailey.co.uk/legal.
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