Understand business transfer,
before you live it
Guides, market analyses and data for owners preparing to transfer their business.
Business transfer 4 min August 2025
Preparing the sale of your SME: the checklist for the last 24 months
Business transfer 4 min May 2025
Business transfer: the 6 mistakes that cost the most
Business transfer 5 min May 2025
Who to sell your business to: a fund, an individual buyer or your employees?
Business transfer 4 min May 2025
Selling your business to your employees: which structures, which limits
Business transfer 3 min November 2024
Employee buyout: how it works in practice
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Market data
Consolidated figures on SME transfers in France and Belgium, continuously updated.
- 700K
- SMEs to be transferred
- 60%
- failure rate
- 3M+
- jobs at stake
Tools
Practical tools to assess your situation and structure your thinking, on your own.
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Our practical guides
Reference documents designed to be read, annotated and shared with your partners.
Preparing the transfer of your SME
The reference guide: the 4 stages of the process, the people to involve and the most common mistakes.
Download the PDFThe 20 documents to gather before a business transfer
The operational checklist to build a complete file and speed up every step of the process.
Download the PDFTransferring to your employees: shared ownership
Legal mechanisms, financing, governance: what an owner needs to know before opening up their capital.
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