Rick Sheldon is partner and director of SG Corporate Finance, based in South Manchester, and recently advised NPL Technologies in helping them secure a sale of shares to Arrk Product Development Limited, a subsidiary of the Japanese quoted Arrk Corporation. Back in 1997, Rick Sheldon helped Tony Lowe and Oliver Johnson complete a Management Buy In of the then named Nuneaton Patterns Limited (now NPL). NPL Technologies is now the world's largest pattern and model maker specialising in prototype and production tooling, full size styling and engineering models and jigs and fixtures for the automotive, motor sport and aerospace industries. In this article, Rick looks at the steps involved in buying and selling businesses, highlighting some of the main pitfalls and how to best avoid them.
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