Leveraged Buyouts
Whether you are an entrepreneur ready to embark on your M&A career or a seasoned business owner looking to scale through acquiring companies. Paul’s practical book walks the reader through the process of using a leveraged buyout structure to acquire multi million £/$ companies.
In it you will understand how to:
Source deals direct to business owner
What to say in first and subsequent meetings
How to handle objections
How to analyse financial statements and craft a deal
How to present the deal to the seller to get them to accept the offer
The process from agreeing a deal to completion, due diligence, legals, financial modelling
How to raise funding to do the deal
What happens once you own it and how you grow it
Once built how to exit
Paul Seabridge is a global entrepreneur, #1 best selling author, mergers and acquisitions expert and founder of Opulentia Capital, a leading M&A firm operating globally.
This book covers the strategies Paul and Opulentia Capital have used to complete over 100 mergers and acquisitions in 32 different industries and in 12 countries.
You can pick up a copy at Amazon here
Buy, Build, Sell
On his journey from faking it to making it, Paul Seabridge went from being broke to multi-millionaire entrepreneur.
Whether you are an entrepreneur ready to scale your business or a seasoned business owner looking to sell, Paul’s inspiring story and practical, business-boosting strategies will help you achieve your business goals. Understand how to:
Quickly and significantly grow your business
Employ the right sales methodology, maximise cash generation and increase business productivity
Examine and correctly interpret the key business financials of any business
Implement rigorous financial control
Build wealth through mergers and acquisitions and securing investment
Work out what success looks like for you – and achieve it
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My Books
THE SMARTER WAY TO SELL YOUR BUSINESS — AND MAXIMISE ITS VALUE
Selling your business is one of the biggest financial and emotional decisions you’ll ever make — yet most owners walk away with less than they deserve.
In Built to Sell Well, seasoned dealmaker Paul Seabridge reveals the proven process used by professional buyers, investors, and corporate acquirers to maximise value and secure smooth exits.
Drawing on over 100 completed transactions across 12 countries and 32 industries, Paul explains how to prepare your business, position it for premium offers, and manage every stage of the sale — from valuation to negotiation to completion.
Practical, direct, and grounded in real-world experience, this book gives you everything you need to achieve the exit you’ve earned — not the one you settle for.
You’ll discover how to:
✔ Build a sellable business that attracts premium buyers
✔ Protect your value through smarter deal structuring
✔ Negotiate confidently and complete your exit with clarity
Get Book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Built-Sell-Well-Preparing-Positioning-ebook/dp/B0FXVBPSVB
Buy It With Debt
How to Raise 6, 7 & 8 Figures to Acquire Profitable SMEs — Even If You’ve Never Done a Deal Before
Most people believe you need money to buy a business. They’re wrong.
Over the past sixteen years, Paul Seabridge has completed 108 transactions across 12 countries and 32 industries, raising over a quarter of a billion dollars in capital.
Not through venture capital.
Not through wealthy investors.
Not through personal savings.
But through structured debt.
In Buy It With Debt, Paul explains how leveraged buyouts actually work in the real world — not at billion-dollar private equity scale, but in the practical SME market where millions of profitable businesses are changing hands.
Inside, you’ll learn:
· How profitable companies can effectively fund their own acquisition
· How to raise 6, 7 and even 8 figures — even without a track record
· How invoice finance, term debt and asset-based lending combine into a capital stack
· What lenders really look for — and how to negotiate covenants properly
· How to build a credible “dream team” that unlocks funding
· How to structure completion and manage lenders post-acquisition
We are living through the largest transfer of small business ownership in history. Millions of owners are retiring. Many have no succession plan. Most are too small for private equity.
For those who understand leverage, this is an extraordinary opportunity.
This is not a theory book. It is a practical framework for disciplined, debt funded acquisition.
If you are ready to stop believing you need money to buy businesses — and start understanding how capital really works — this book will show you how.
Get Book Here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GPK43HMR
Lead the Business In Front of You Real leadership lessons from 110 transactions, 32 industries and 12 countries (English Edition)
There is no one right way to lead.
What works in a UK engineering business may fail completely in an FMCG company in Spain. The leadership required to turn around a struggling business is different from that needed to scale a successful one, while the entrepreneur who builds a company from nothing may need to become a very different leader if that company is to grow without them.
In Lead the Business in Front of You, Paul Seabridge draws on the lessons learned from buying, building, operating, overseeing and selling businesses through more than 110 transactions across 32 industries and 12 countries.
This is not another leadership book filled with management theory or a rigid set of rules. Instead, it explores what leadership looks like in the real world: understanding the business before trying to change it, recognising the people who really make an organisation work, creating a culture of accountability, having uncomfortable conversations, knowing when to take control and when to get out of the way, hiring people better than you and ultimately creating more leaders rather than more followers.
Above all, it argues that great leadership is about judgement. The principles may remain constant, but the way you lead must change according to the business, the people and the situation in front of you.
Short, practical and grounded in real business experience, Lead the Business in Front of You is for entrepreneurs, CEOs, managers, investors and anyone responsible for getting the best from people while building a stronger business.
Because leadership isn’t about following somebody else’s playbook.
It is about becoming the leader the business in front of you needs. Amazon
The Dealmaker’s Playbook
Deals, Debt & Discipline - Lessons from 100 Real Business Acquisitions, Investments and Exits Worldwide
MASTER THE ART OF THE DEAL
Most people believe you need money to buy a business.
You don’t.
What you need is the ability to structure deals, raise capital, and execute.
In The Dealmaker’s Playbook, Paul Seabridge shares the real lessons from completing over 100 transactions and raising more than $500 million in capital across multiple countries.
This is not theory. This is what actually works.
• How to buy businesses without using your own money
• How to raise millions in funding — even as a first-time buyer
• Why deal structure matters more than price
• How to build, scale, and exit businesses for life-changing paydays
• The mistakes that can cost you everything — and how to avoid them
From sourcing deals to structuring them, raising capital to exiting for 7 and 8 figures, this book gives you a practical, no-nonsense roadmap to building wealth through acquisitions.
If you want to stop thinking about deals and start doing them, this book will show you how.
Paul Seabridge is the Group CEO of OPC Capital Partners and a specialist in leveraged buyouts, buy-and-build strategies, and structured finance. He has completed transactions across multiple countries and industries, helping investors and entrepreneurs acquire and scale profitable businesses.
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Buy The Business. Build Ten Times the Value.: 10x Value - A Practical Playbook for Turning Acquisitions into Exceptional Companies (English Edition)
Buying the business is only the beginning. The real opportunity is what you build next.
Entrepreneurs and investors can spend months finding an acquisition, negotiating the deal, raising finance and completing due diligence, yet remarkably little time answering the question that ultimately determines whether the investment succeeds: what are we going to do with the business once we own it?
10X Value is a practical playbook for turning an acquisition into a larger, stronger and substantially more valuable company. It takes you from the first 100 days after completion through to developing a five year strategy, accelerating organic growth, improving sales and marketing, strengthening leadership, building scalable systems, making complementary acquisitions and creating the management discipline required to execute.
At the heart of the book is a simple question: what would need to happen for this business to become ten times more valuable? Not as a promise or prediction, but as a framework for challenging incremental thinking and identifying what the company could genuinely become.
You will learn how to build the Growth Bridge between today’s business and your five year ambition, decide where to play and how to win, develop a repeatable M&A strategy, identify what must be true for the plan to succeed and reduce everything to a simple Strategy on a Page that connects long term ambition with what happens on Monday morning.
Most importantly, 10X Value explains why growing revenue and EBITDA is only part of the equation. The greatest value is created when you simultaneously build a higher quality business: one with predictable earnings, strong cash generation, diversified customers, genuine competitive advantages, scalable systems and a management team capable of operating without the owner.
Whether your ultimate objective is to sell, refinance, continue acquiring or own the business for decades, the principle remains the same.
The acquisition is the transaction. What you build afterwards is the investment. https://www.amazon.co.uk/
