Most exits are decided years before the day.
Owners who plan early get to choose their timing, their successor and their price. Owners who don't usually have those choices made for them by health, a market shift or a tired partner. Here is how the runway typically looks.
Set the destination
What you want from the exit: money, timing, legacy, who carries the business on.
Build transferable value
Reduce owner dependence, tidy the accounts, document systems, secure key staff and contracts.
Choose the path
Third-party sale, family succession, management buyout or partial exit, tested against your numbers.
Execute with support
The right team in place, a clear plan for handover and no surprises in due diligence.
From the first question to the final handover.
Vorrei works for the owner. Some engagements are purely advisory; others run through to a completed transaction. Where your exit calls for a licensed agent, accountant or lawyer, we bring them in and coordinate the work so the plan carries through.
Exit readiness review
A frank look at your business through a buyer's eyes and a prioritised plan for lifting what it is worth.
- Owner dependence and key-person risk
- Quality and normalisation of earnings
- Systems, contracts and second-tier management
Succession planning
For owners passing the business to family, partners or the management team.
- Successor readiness and role transition
- Funding the handover and vendor finance options
- Family and shareholder alignment
Share and unit sales
Managing the sale of shares in a company or units in a trust, from preparation through to completion.
- Sale preparation and information memorandum
- Buyer approach, confidentiality and negotiation
- Due diligence and coordination with your lawyers
Owner advisory
An experienced sounding board through the decision, the preparation and the transition itself.
- Exit option modelling
- Internal buyouts and staged equity transfers
- Ongoing check-ins to keep the plan on track
Blair Pedler, Principal
I've bought businesses, built them and sold them, so I know what an exit feels like from the owner's chair as well as what a buyer looks for.
I co-founded, scaled and sold an insurance broking group. I continue to own and operate B2B and B2C distribution businesses. I've spent my career on both sides of business transactions and more recently as a business broker in Perth.
Vorrei is the advisory side of that experience: helping owners make the big decision well, long before the transaction starts. I work across Perth and regional WA, with a long connection to Bunbury and the South West.
Full career history on LinkedIn →Thinking about your next chapter?
An initial conversation is confidential and without obligation. Tell me a little about the business and your timing and we'll work out whether there's a fit.