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Buy or build.

When a company takes its business into another region, the first real decision is not where to open. It is whether to buy what already exists or to build from scratch. We assess the market, find the companies for sale — on the market and off it — and hand you a twelve-month plan to transform, run and grow the one you choose.

The method · five steps

From a market you don't know to a company you run.

  1. 01

    Market assessment.

    How large the market is, how it is moving, and what customers actually pay. Margins as they really are, the rules and licences that apply, the real cost of doing business — and who wins there today, and why.

  2. 02

    Competitive position.

    How your offer compares with the companies already in place — on price, product and distribution. Where you can win, and what it will cost to get there.

  3. 03

    Entry route.

    Build, buy or partner. The structure and licences each route requires, the order of the steps, the timetable, and the first people to meet on the ground.

  4. 04

    Companies for sale.

    An inventory of the businesses you could acquire: those openly listed for sale, and those that are not — reached off-market through lawyers and notaries, including companies in court proceedings.

  5. 05

    Twelve-month plan.

    Transformation, operation and value creation for the new company, sequenced month by month, costed, and followed on a dashboard you keep.

The rule we hold to

The cheapest company to buy is rarely the cheapest company to own.

The first decision

Two ways in. Both have a price.

Build

Create the company.

You start clean: your structure, your people, your standards. You also start from zero — licences to obtain, a team to hire, a name nobody knows yet, and the longest road to the first revenue.

  • ForNo inherited liabilities, no inherited habits
  • ForFull control of the team and the standards
  • AgainstLicences, hiring and reputation built from nothing
  • AgainstThe longest time to first revenue

Buy

Acquire a company.

You buy time: licences, customers, a team and revenue from the first day. You also buy the past — liabilities, habits and contracts that were not written for you. The price is only fair if the assessment behind it is.

  • ForLicences, customers and revenue from day one
  • ForA team that already knows the market
  • AgainstPast liabilities and contracts come with it
  • AgainstThe value depends on what you change afterwards

We model both routes on the same numbers before we recommend one.

Closed case files tied with cloth tape, a sealed envelope and a brass key on a desk lit by a banker's lamp

On the market, and off it

The best companies are rarely listed.

The businesses openly for sale are the visible part of a market. The rest changes hands quietly: owners who want to retire, partners who want out, companies whose accounts have become a problem.

We search both sides, and every company on the list comes with a profile, the points that need checking, and our view on whether it deserves a closer look.

Listed for sale
Brokers, listings and marketplaces, screened against your criteria and compared on the same basis.
Off-market
Owners approached discreetly through lawyers and notaries, before a sale is ever advertised.
In proceedings
Companies under court supervision, sold on a timetable set by the procedure — to buyers who are ready to move.

After the signature

Twelve months to make it yours.

A company bought or created abroad is only worth what it becomes. The plan is written before the signature, not after it, and it runs on three tracks at once.

Months 1–4

Transform

Structure, licences, management and reporting put in place. The first hundred days decide what the company becomes.

Months 3–9

Operate

Commercial relaunch, cost base, suppliers and team — run against monthly targets and reviewed with you each month.

Months 7–12

Grow the value

New products, channels or sites, and a company documented and reported well enough to be financed, merged or sold.

Scope and fee

What the engagement covers.

For
A company taking its business into another region, by acquisition or by creation. Any sector.
Fee
from €30,000$33,000 · AED 120,000
Scope
Set with you on the qualification call: number of markets, depth of the search, companies in proceedings or not.
Discuss an expansion

You receive

  • Market assessment — size, demand, prices, margins, regulation and the real cost of doing business
  • Competitive map, and where your offer stands against the companies already in place
  • Entry route — build, buy or partner, with the structure and licensing path for each
  • Inventory of companies for sale, listed and off-market, each with a profile and our assessment
  • Twelve-month strategic plan for transformation, operation and value creation, sequenced and costed
  • The dashboard to follow the plan month by month — it stays with you

Why operators

We have run a company far from home.

Its structure, its team, its suppliers and its sales network — end to end, over 140 villas sold. Expansion is the same problem in any sector: a market you do not know yet, people you have not met, and rules nobody wrote down.

Buy or build

Tell us where you want to grow.

A short brief, then a call. We will tell you on that call whether the market, and the route, are worth pursuing.

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