Buyer · Adviser · Any UK industry
We buy UK businesses. And we help owners buy theirs.
MAW Enterprise acquires established UK companies for itself, and runs the same off-market search for owners in any industry who want to grow by buying a competitor, a supplier or a bolt-on. Both sides of the table, one person accountable.
What is your business worth? Nine questions, two minutes, an indicative range.
Free, weekly
The UK Deal Brief
One topic a week from both sides of the table, for owners growing by acquisition and owners thinking about selling.
Two conversations
Which side of the table are you on?
Thinking about selling, but not ready to tell anyone?
A quiet conversation with the person who would actually buy it. Kept in confidence, no fee payable to MAW, a two-minute form first.
Selling my business 02 I want to growAdd a business to yours, without waiting for one to come up for sale.
Qualified conversations with owners who match your buying brief, found the way we find our own acquisitions and run on your behalf.
Growing by acquisition Acquisition Search Sprint £3,500, then from £2,500 a month + a success fee on completionFree valuation tool
What is your business actually worth?
Nine questions, two minutes. You get an indicative range and the working behind it, the way a buyer would look at it. Your result comes to you and to Mark.
Value my business
Who you are dealing with
A buyer who advises. An adviser who buys.
Mark Warren has built and run his own companies, and came to deals from a career as an engineer in UK rail and infrastructure. Every week he reviews businesses across every sector, through brokers and direct approaches: he reads the accounts, values them and gives a straight answer quickly.
His own acquisitions
MAW buys established UK businesses where the owner wants to step back. Management continuity and the handover are agreed in the heads of terms, not assumed.
Buy-side advisory
The same search, the same screening and the same conversations, run for owners who want to grow by acquisition, with your name at the top.
Engineering discipline
In engineering nothing goes live until it has been tested and signed off. Deals get the same treatment: screened on filed accounts, gaps marked, confirmed with the owner before any offer.
One rule keeps it honest: a search we run for you is yours. A business found in your search is offered to you first, and we do not approach it for ourselves or another client unless you pass on it in writing.
How an acquisition search runs
From a 20-minute call to heads of terms.
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The 20-minute call
What you want to buy, where, and how it would be funded. If it fits, a short proposal follows: the Sprint, then the monthly fee for your brief.
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Weeks 1 to 6: the Sprint
The brief agreed, the market mapped, and a scored target list screened on filed accounts, with every gap marked. Each target shows under a codename in your portal until Mark shares the name. Outreach starts in the Sprint, and we guarantee 5 qualified owner conversations by the end of it, or we keep working at no charge until there are.
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Approaches on your behalf
First contacts to distinct owners, introducing you as an established buyer we act for (named only with your consent). A weekly progress email, a private portal you can check any time with a reply within 48 hours, and a 30-minute progress call each month.
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Offer to heads of terms
Valuation and an offer range, the approach, the negotiation and the structure, with funding introductions where needed. The success fee is only paid if it completes.
The work, in public
Watch how a buyer thinks.
Bolt-on calculator
What one acquisition is worth to you.
Put in your profit, the profit of a business you could buy and the price. See the extra profit each year, the value a bigger group can carry, and what our fees come to next to it.
Try the calculatorIllustrative only. Not a forecast or advice.
Growing by acquisition
Acquisition Search Sprint £3,500, then from £2,500 a month + a success fee on completion.
£2,500 a month for one brief, £4,000 for two or more separate briefs. Overseas buyers add £1,000 a month. A three-month minimum after the Sprint, then rolling on 30 days' notice. Success fee 3% up to £3m, 2% above, minimum £25,000. No VAT is charged at present.
Included: a weekly progress email, a private client portal, a reply within 48 hours to any question raised there, and a 30-minute progress call each month. See an example portal
Acquisition Search Sprint: 6 weeks, £3,500 upfront. Or 2 x £1,750, or £2,500 if you commit to 6 months at the start. Your scored target list, outreach live on your behalf and the first owner conversations. Our guarantee: 5 qualified owner conversations by the end of the Sprint, or we keep working at no charge until there are.
Selling? There is no fee to MAW when we are the buyer.
Twenty minutes
A straight answer, quickly.
Tell Mark what you want to buy, or what you might sell. You get a clear view of whether it fits and what happens next.