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WilliamsAli provides a unique brand of commercial and strategic insight to business owners and entrepreneurs across the North East and further afield. Our tailored service helps businesses and shareholders take control of their key transformational moments, whether starting up, winding down, looking to grow and secure funding or creating an exit strategy.

Our practical experience of leading deal processes from start to finish, both as advisers and in our past roles within industry, ensures we are perfectly equipped to deliver successful transactions for our growing list of clients. Our experiences cover every aspect of the deal spectrum, from PLCs and investor relations, through to start-ups and growth capital.

We offer a trusted, professional service of the highest quality to ambitious businesses which are ready for their next step. Our independent, specialist service is geared towards business sales, acquisitions, private equity, fund-raising and MBO’s. Our unrelenting focus is on achieving our clients’ objectives and helping them to extract maximum value.

An independent boutique offering the highest quality standards and depth of knowledge

Through our high-quality team of experts operating with freedom and agility, we offer business owners the full attention and resources of our specialist knowledge just when they need it the most. Transformational deals and transactions can be once-in-a-decade or even once-in-a-lifetime events and you cannot afford to get them wrong. As a client once told us: “no-one uses their GP for brain surgery, they go to a specialist.”
At the heart of our proposition, is the objective of extracting maximum value from any situation for business owners, investors and entrepreneurs. We have particularly strong experience in helping business owners at the point of exit, whether through a trade sale, a private equity transaction or a management buy-out. Many of our clients have engaged us well in advance of those planned events to help them to prepare and build ahead of time to give the best chance of success.

Our credentials in business sales and private equity have been demonstrated in the successful transactions we have led for our clients. The depth of our understanding is further evidenced by engagements with private equity investors who have sought our expertise to help them with a number of transactions in buy-side roles.

We will also be flexible and innovative in structuring the right deal for our clients through non-equity funding, for example, debt finance from either banks, second-tier lenders or alternative funds. We pride ourselves on working with high-quality people in high-quality businesses, no matter what their stage of development, as demonstrated by our successes in securing growth capital for earlier stage clients from both institutional funders and angel investors.

Commercial perspective and understanding

In many cases, the clients we work with have been attracted to us not only by our corporate finance expertise, but also the commercial grounding and insight that our team has acquired through years in senior roles within industry. It can be rare for business owners to find advisers who speak the same language as they do, and we find our clients like it.

Our personal and collaborative approach reflects our desire to build close, long-term and mutually rewarding relationships with our clients.

Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss any aspect of the services offered by WilliamsAli and how we can help you to deliver your plan.