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How to Buy a Business in the UK: The complete Step-by-step guide for Acquisition Entrepreneurs

How to Buy a Business in the UK: The complete Step-by-step guide for Acquisition EntrepreneursSteve Rooms Published on: 26/03/2026

Buying a business in the UK is one of the most powerful routes to business ownership — but ...

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Deal Autopsy: Three Days From Completion, a Tax Liability Nobody Had Seen. Here Is How We Saved the Deal.

Deal Autopsy: Three Days From Completion, a Tax Liability Nobody Had Seen. Here Is How We Saved the Deal.

Deal Autopsy: Three Days From Completion, a Tax Liability Nobody Had Seen. Here Is How We Saved the Deal.Steve Rooms

The previous deal autopsies in this series have been, in different ways, cautionary — transactions that went wrong, that produced worse outcomes than ...

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Working Capital Mastery: The Specific Levers That Free Cash From Any Business (and How to Pull Them)

Working Capital Mastery: The Specific Levers That Free Cash From Any Business (and How to Pull Them)

Working Capital Mastery: The Specific Levers That Free Cash From Any Business (and How to Pull Them)Steve Rooms

Working capital is the cash tied up in the operating cycle of a business — the money locked in debtors, stock, and work in progress, net of what is owed to creditors. In most UK SME businesses, working capital is ...

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Deal Autopsy: The Deal That Completed — and Then the Management Team Left. Here Is What We Missed

Deal Autopsy: The Deal That Completed — and Then the Management Team Left. Here Is What We Missed

Deal Autopsy: The Deal That Completed — and Then the Management Team Left. Here Is What We MissedSteve Rooms

The deal completed without significant complication. The price was reasonable. The due diligence had been thorough. And then, in the fourteen months that followed ...

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Deal Autopsy: We Overpaid. Here Is Exactly How It Happened — and the Investment Model That Would Have Stopped It

Deal Autopsy: We Overpaid. Here Is Exactly How It Happened — and the Investment Model That Would Have Stopped It

Deal Autopsy: We Overpaid. Here Is Exactly How It Happened — and the Investment Model That Would Have Stopped ItSteve Rooms

Writing this is not comfortable. But the lesson it contains is one of the most practically useful in any acquisition that we have completed so far ...

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