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    Debt or Equity: What Growth Capital Really Costs
    Growth Funding
    19th August 2026

    Debt or Equity: What Growth Capital Really Costs

    Equity feels cheap because nothing leaves the bank account. For a profitable owner-managed business it is usually the most expensive money you can take.

    Due Diligence: How Deals Get Picked Apart, and How to Stop It
    Exit Planning
    19th August 2026

    Due Diligence: How Deals Get Picked Apart, and How to Stop It

    What actually happens during due diligence on an owner-managed business, where the price gets chipped, and what to fix in the twelve months before a buyer looks.

    Exit readiness: what actually moves the price of an owner-managed business
    Exit Planning
    20th August 2026

    Exit readiness: what actually moves the price of an owner-managed business

    Most owners think about the price of their business for the first time when a buyer is already in the room. By then the price is largely set, by decisions taken two or three years earlier.

    What a Lender Actually Looks At When You Ask for Money
    Growth Funding
    19th August 2026

    What a Lender Actually Looks At When You Ask for Money

    Debt is not equity with interest attached. What UK lenders test in a forecast, from debt service cover to covenant headroom, and why the downside case decides it.

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