United Kingdom · Managed confidential sale
Sell off-market. Pay nothing upfront.
For qualifying UK businesses, OffSell runs the whole confidential sale process: qualification, preparation, confidential buyer identification, NDA-controlled disclosure, offers, Heads of Terms and support through to completion.
- Market
- United Kingdom — our primary operating market
- To begin
- No upfront fee for qualifying businesses
- Exposure
- Your business is never publicly identified
What we do
A complete process, not just a listing.
A public marketplace sells exposure. A managed off-market process does the work: finding the acquirers for whom your business makes strategic sense, and taking them from a first confidential conversation to a completed transaction.
Initial business qualification
We establish whether an off-market process is the right route before anything begins.
Preparation of a confidential business profile
An accurate description of the business that does not identify it.
Identification of appropriate buyers
Strategic and trade acquirers with a reason to want this specific business.
Confidential buyer approaches
Approached individually and confidentially. No advertising, no listing.
Buyer qualification
Intent, funding and fit tested before disclosure.
NDA-controlled disclosure
Confidentiality terms agreed before identifying information is released.
Confidential introductions
Managed introductions between you and qualified buyers.
Offer management
Offers structured and compared on a consistent basis.
Heads of Terms
The agreed shape of the deal documented properly.
Transaction support through completion
Momentum maintained through diligence and legals.
Who it suits
A confidential off-market sale is not right for every business.
It tends to suit owners with concentrated customer relationships, sensitive staff situations, or competitors who would use the knowledge of a sale rather than bid for the business. It also suits owners who want to test appetite before committing to anything irreversible.
It suits less well businesses whose value depends on generating competitive tension across a wide field of financial buyers. Where an open process is genuinely the better answer, we will tell you that at the qualification stage rather than take on a mandate that should not exist.
Qualification, honestly
Next
Where to go from here.
Process
How it works
The full process, stage by stage, and what is expected of you at each one.
Disclosure
Confidentiality
Exactly how information is controlled, and what we do and do not claim.
Commercial
Fees
No upfront fees, a Heads of Terms payment credited against the final fee, and a progressive success fee of 5% / 4% / 3% (minimum £15,000 + VAT).
Start with a confidential review.
A confidential conversation about your business, the buyers who may exist for it, and whether an off-market process is the right route. Nothing is published.