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Home / Video / Deal Insight Video Series: Buying a business out of administration


Deal Insight Series:

Buying a business out of administration




In this video of our Deal Insight Series, serial entrepreneur Jonathan Jay talks about buying a business from administrators.

The transcript of the interview follows:

You’ve bought business in administration; how do you find the process?

Buying a business from administrators takes courage, because you can only do limited due diligence. You cannot meet the management team because the business is being operated by the administrator, and there is a diminishing value. Even every day, there can be a diminishing value. You might have staff walking off with the customer database and setting up as the competition. You are in a blind auction, you don’t know who else is bidding, and everything moves very, very quickly. The very best advice is to have a lawyer who has a relationship with the IP (insolvency practitioner), or to have a pre-existing relationship with the insolvency practitioner yourself. It takes nerves of steel to do, it but the wonderful thing about buying a business from an administrator...


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For more information on buying distressed businesses, take a look at our other articles:

- How to buy a business out of administration

- How to make your business an attractive acquisition target – research from 9,000 private companies

- The 2018 business turnaround cheat sheet

- Buying intellectual property out of a business administration

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