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Corporate Finance / Advisory Firm required to handle the sale of a £1m+ EBITDA business in the Renewable Energy sector.

(Buyers, do NOT contact me, I'm not interested in speaking with you or putting you in touch with the target.)

I’ve been instructed to help a client identify the right adviser to run the sale of their UK business.

High-level:

- +£1m in profit before tax;

- +£5m in net assets on B/S;

- +8 years established;

- strong growth profile;

- full management team in place, no reliance on owner;

- realistic seller price expectations.

I’ll be approaching a number of sector specialists (e.g. Gneiss, Alexa Capital, Portland Advisers, Augusta & Co and about 20 others) as well as broader firms with recent, sector-based deal experience (e.g. Canaccord, Cenkos and 25+ others) even if this business is too small for some of them.

If you’re sector agnostic but have recent, relevant energy transactions, feel free to get in touch. I can share a teaser, subject to the following:

- you've completed energy sector deals within the last #24 months;

- these were sell-side mandates (not fundraises, not buy-side);

- your role as lead adviser can be verified and

- transaction size was > £5m

For clarity: my clients pay my fees. I don’t take commissions from advisory firms. The role is to identify the adviser BEST suited to this client, not just an adviser.

Thank you.

I've spent the last couple years searching for a business to buy and doing advisory work on the side — helping owners think through growth and exits.

I've enjoyed the advisory side more than expected and I'm now actively exploring whether acquiring an existing practice makes more sense than continuing the search.

Curious if anyone here has thought about transitioning out, or knows someone who has. A few things on my mind:

- How do these typically get structured? Earn-out tied to deal flow, royalty on closed transactions, straight asset purchase? Probably not a clean SBA deal but curious what's actually been done

- What makes a practice transferable vs. not? is it the brand, the pipeline, the relationships?

Would love to hear perspectives and ideas on how to approach this.

Katie Kay—one of JT Foxx’s promoted “top coaches”—claims 18 business exits.

I spent extensive time trying to verify that.

Result: zero confirmed exits.

Not “hard to find.” Not “private deals.”
Nothing.

What does show up in public records?

• Companies tied to her name in Canada dissolved for non-compliance
• No verifiable track record of owning or operating:
  • a construction company
  • a medical company
  • a CBD business
  • or any large-scale lending operation
• No evidence supporting claims of issuing $97M/day in loans
• No record of any Congressional award—despite repeated claims

At some point, this stops being “marketing exaggeration” and starts looking like systematic misrepresentation.

And here’s the part that should concern anyone paying for coaching:

When asked for proof?
Blocked. Ignored. Deflected.

Meanwhile, JT Foxx continues to platform and promote these claims.

So let’s be direct:

You’re being asked to pay high-ticket money to learn business from someone whose entire success story does not withstand basic due diligence.

No verified exits.
No verified companies.
No verified awards.

Just branding.

JT’s favorite line is: “Trust—but verify.”
So verify.

Check registries.
Check transaction history.
Check awards databases.

Don’t outsource your judgment to stage presence, luxury imagery, or “celebrity proximity.”

Because if the numbers aren’t real,
you’re not buying education—you’re buying a story.

If anyone here has actual, verifiable proof of these claims—post it.

#JTFoxx #KatieKay #BusinessCoaching #DueDiligence #HighTicket

Hi all,

Posting this hypothetically as I'd like to understand what options exist before committing to anything.

Imagine a UK-based service business turning over £2m+ per year. EBITDA has been around 9% for the last 12 months, and 11% and 15% in the two years prior — so margins have compressed a bit but the business is profitable and trading.

The owner is in the early stages of exploring a partial or majority sale — nothing imminent, but the process is underway. The challenge is that there's a cashflow gap right now of roughly £100k that needs bridging while the longer-term deal gets sorted.

One option being considered is whether a serious prospective buyer might be willing to inject that £100k upfront — essentially as an early show of commitment — before the full sale process formally kicks off. Whether that would be structured as a loan, a deposit against the eventual deal, or a small initial equity stake, we're not sure. Has anyone seen this kind of arrangement done in practice? And if so, how was it typically structured to protect both sides?

Beyond that, are there other realistic options for accessing £100k relatively quickly in this situation — secured against the business's performance or the anticipated sale proceeds? A specialist lender, a private investor, a broker?

Keen to hear from anyone who has been through something similar or works in this space. Thanks in advance.

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