The decisions that define a company are the ones it makes least often.
A company sells, releases a shareholder or refinances only a handful of times, and lives with the outcome for years. Sterling exists for those decisions: senior-led, independent and deliberately small.
Sterling Corporate Finance advises owner-managed businesses and their investors on sales, partial exits and liquidity, where the right buyer is rarely the obvious one.
Most of that work is in one sector we know well. The rest is a kind of problem we take in any sector.
A sector, and a kind of problem
Industrials and business services
Sell-side and shareholder advice for owner-managed businesses with £2m to £50m of revenue: manufacturing, distribution, specialist products, HVAC, M&E, building services, precision engineering and business services. A fragmented, well-funded, consolidating market, where knowing who buys, and what they pay, decides the price.
02Complex Exits
Sales and liquidity in any sector where the usual route does not apply: a single stake with no obvious buyer, a UK owner selling a business abroad or an overseas owner selling one here, or a business that would not yet sell for what it is worth, and an owner who wants to know what has to change first.
The best time to start the conversation is before you need to.
You will deal with the person who would run your transaction, from that first conversation to completion.