Specialist business brokers based in London UK, providing a hands-on one-to-one service to business owners selling their business. We achieve both a high success rate and optimum deal value for our clients.
Hornblower Business Brokers is a business brokerage acting on behalf of owners of SMEs in the sale of their business. We specialise in selling businesses in the industrial, engineering and professional business-to-business service sectors. The annual turnover of our clients businesses is typically in the range of £500k to £10m.
To gain a feel for the types of businesses we work with, please read the Case Studies for our recent transactions which can be found on our Recent Deals page. Equally please have a look at our Businesses For Sale.
Hornblower is set-up to offer a personal one-to-one service based on an ethos of honesty and straight-talking. Selling a business is often a once in a lifetime event which can be both daunting and emotional; we will make sure you know what to expect at each step of the process.
We are a small team of experienced business brokers / M&A consultants, and as a client you will have one point of contact who will guide you through the complete process of selling your business from the initial appraisal meeting to the successful sale of your business.
Being focused on selling engineering and B2B service businesses means that our database of buyers is focused on these sectors too, this certainly gives us a head start. In addition we fully research our clients’ market to draw up a list of the most suitable strategic buyers and approach them directly.
We prefer to work with a smaller number of clients so that we can apply the resource that is required in order to achieve the optimum deal value and a high success rate.
As Hornblower also offers an acquisition search service for prospective buyers, we always make clear from the outset which side we are acting for, buyer or seller.
We sell businesses both in the UK and internationally.
We have recently completed 4 international deals. We sold two businesses in Australia, a structural engineering business and a construction and engineering company. We have also brokered two business acquisition deals in Denmark for an American based buyer and have several more international acquisitions in the pipeline. We completed twelve deals in 2013 of which 75% were UK based companies, 25% were international deals.
Through selling businesses internationally, we are quickly building our database of active international buyers. As the UK economy takes off again we expect to see an increased appetite for cross-border deals and our truly international reach will benefit our all clients whether in the UK, the rest of Europe or in Australia.
Our head office is in Greenwich, London which is within close proximity of the financial centres of both the City of London and Canary Wharf. We also have regional offices in Nottingham in the UK East Midlands and Bristol in the South West UK.
We hope that this website will give you a sense of our ethos and commitment to serving our clients.
If you have any questions about how we could help you achieve your business goals, we would be happy to hear from you. Please Contact Us on +44 (0) 20 8090 9380. All discussions are confidential and without obligation.
Testimonials
To see what our clients say, please click here.
Strategic Partners
At Hornblower, we have established relationships with a number of strategic partners who can assist you with the full range of matters related to selling and buying businesses. For more information, please click here.