with Julie Wilkinson
The Build and Exit team is thrilled to announce our partnership with Acquisition Masters. Having worked closely with the founders of AM in 2024, Julie is excited to strengthen this collaboration and broaden the scope of support available to acquirers across the UK.
Acquisition Masters is an exclusive community of UK entrepreneurs and business owners committed to growth through strategic acquisitions.
With over 612,000 UK businesses led by baby boomers expected to retire in the next 5–10 years—many without succession plans and eager to safeguard the legacies they’ve built—we provide the tools and support needed to help members acquire competitors, vendors, and bolt-on businesses.
Our approach combines a collaborative community, expert guidance, and a powerful mastermind network to empower business owners to seize these unique opportunities.
The Build and Business Exit podcast will include conversations, stories and real-life examples of day-to-day challenges business owners face, different methods of growth including business acquisitions and mergers, and top tips on how owners can transition from working in their business to working on it, enabling them to maximise their value on business exit. I will also include episodes where I share my own learnings on business management and how Wilkinson Accounting Solutions are planning to continue to grow through business acquisitions.
Listen to learn Acquisition Strategies for Buyers and Sellers. Julie Wilkinson is talking at Sage Thought Leadership Podcast.
This is a nightmare situation for any business owner who puts their trust into others and is exactly the position my guest, Kath Jones found herself in.
She is the founder of Think Wine Group and ended up losing £100K after her agent scammed her and the funding she got to salvage the situation never came through.
The buyer and seller need to agree on these to show serious intent for the deal. But there are many key issues both parties need to be aware of. In this episode Kush Birdi and I discuss our experiences working with heads of terms.
We also share how the buyer and seller can become aligned and why this is so important. The common problems that can arise whilst creating heads of terms and crucially what you need to make sure is in them.
Kush Birdi is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Birdi & Co. An independent, multi-service law firm that believes by bringing energy and positivity to everything they do, working across commercial, corporate law, employee and finance law specialising in M&A.
