RCA - Getting You & Your Business Exit-Ready

Getting you and your business “Exit-Ready”

We understand the unique decisions facing owners of Small Businesses

RCA adds value at a pivotal point of change within your business, getting ready to sell your business.

With extensive experience in operating, growing, buying and selling UK businesses we’ve worked through struggles and success, intimately understand the SME market and most importantly recognise the unique decisions business owners face.

Selling your business comes with a myriad of financial, emotional and practical decisions that your typical M&A advisor or Non-Executive Director isn’t prepared for or isn’t able to solve, yet these issues can cause a process to fall-through or stall. RCA has a deep understanding of what it takes to not only get the best value but the best experience from selling your business.

Typically, we work with businesses and their owners up to 2 years before getting ready for a sale and will prepare you, enact the change needed and guide you through the exit-process.

Whether you need a new management team, need to get financially fit or are in need of an interim Chairman, RCA’s rich entrepreneurial and corporate background will provide the crucial momentum and advice needed.

We believe SMEs deserve access to the same advice and guidance as larger companies at an affordable cost

SMEs account for three-fifths of the employment and around half of the turnover in the UK private sector yet they often lack the access to credible advice from experienced advisors or have the know-how themselves.

Many of the best transaction and strategy professionals will have minimum fee requirements that prevent them from working with the ‘Best of British’ SMEs. Given this, RCA was created to help those typically unable to access the help needed to set themselves up for the best outcomes for their businesses and families.

Recent case studies
Amalgamated Facilities Management

RCA was initially instructed by the Management Team to advise on the execution of an MBO for both AFM Jersey & Guernsey from its Parent Group, Garenne Construction.
During this process, the parent company was swiftly put into administration with only a matter of days made available to put in binding bids to ensure the transition and liquidity of both AFM Jersey & Guernsey.
Due to ample preparation, we were able to successfully source the relevant working capital and equity and led the Management Team in winning a competitive bid process.
Moving forward, RCA has come on-board to act as Chairman for the newly merged group as it continues it’s profitable stewardship of both Jersey and Guernsey.
Quattro Group

Having bought in and aided the former owner in re-acquiring the business back in 2014, as Executive Chairman for the Group, RCA has overseen the growth of sales from £28m in group sales to over £62m to-date. This has been done through a combination of strategic acquisitions and organic growth.
Most importantly, as a highly cash-generative business backed by government contracts RCA has shaped the external perception on how the business is valued moving from an asset-book value towards a multiple on EBIT, this has created over a 5x uplift in shareholder value since joining.
To-date, RCA remains as Executive Chairman and has an integral operational role.
AVS Fencing

RCA was brought into the business during a turnaround period as an Executive Chairman.
By restructuring the shareholder-base, investing alongside the new majority owner, putting in a new management team and leading a digital transformation of the business RCA was able to not only take the business from an EBITDA of £400k to £2.3m, but led a lucrative earn-out and exit to an industry competitor.
UGO’s Food Group

As a 93 year-old family business, RCA was initially brought in as a Non-Executive Director to advise the owning family upon a Management Team change and business transformation.
Since coming onboard, RCA has now been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman and continues in this role to-date.
Utelize

Having advised and partnered with the acquisition of the business from it’s original founder, RCA has overseen a dramatic strategic shift within Utelize.
Investing alongside a new management team and facilitating a MBI that has already seen a partial-exit with 4x uplift on invested capital. RCA is now focussed and supporting the management team on a strategic ‘buy and build’ strategy as the business looks to fully-exit within the next 3 years