Chesterfield’s approach is flexible to meet client’s requirements. Investments can be arranged in a tax optimal structure. Chesterfield’s remuneration can be arranged by way of transaction fees, management fees, incentive fees or franchising fees.
Selling your educational business or Buying and establishing a new business can be a stressful undertaking. However, problems and timescales can be reduced by careful preparation. Nobody is better qualified than Chesterfield to introduce you to good quality, serious buyers and sellers whose brief matches your requirements.
We will negotiate effectively on your behalf and use our long experience to assemble a small number of opportunities - all of which should be more than likely to buy or sell your business - and set up a competitive race to close the transaction.

Potential Sellers:

• Private individuals who wish to retire, change course, trade up or sell for personal reasons.
• Educational companies backed by venture capital who have increased profits by any means available and want to take profits.
• Family-owned companies, who wish to rationalize, alter their geographical profile or sell up for a variety of reasons. Many of these prefer to be absorbed by a trust or another family or individual owner who may be sympathetic to their ethos.
• Charitable Trusts when one of their schools no longer fits the picture or needs significant new investment of energy and talent.
• Large businesses or Groups sell the business for investment or development of another segment of the business.
• Recently as a result of credit crunch and economic climate, certain businesses have financed their businesses with an inflated interest rates and unachievable bank covenants. 

We have good relationships with the major educational groups. We also have well-established contacts with venture capital firms and investors. If you want to consider a major acquisition or disposal in this field, we shall be happy to discuss this in total confidence.

Advice on funding

We are happy to advise you in general terms on ways of funding acquisitions and what is possible.
We have a number of financial contacts who are generally able to secure funding for educational businesses on preferential terms. However, in the recent credit environment it is more advisable to invest Equity now and leverage it later, once the financial markets have settled to normality.

Reasons why Chesterfield are the best people to sell your educational business

1. No lock-in period or Sole agency.
2. No upfront fees and costs for sellers.
3. We are true educational and finance specialists.
4. We are the only people acting as advisors in this specialized sector who have owned and run a successful educational business of our own for over 30 years.
5. We sell more nurseries and schools than anyone else.
6. We are honest. We don’t ‘overprice’ businesses or make promises we don’t intend to keep.
7. We are well known to most of the major educational associations who speak well of us.

Potential Buyers:

• Private individuals with money to invest and an interest or past experience in education. These are usually investments for the long term.
• Educational companies backed by venture capital. These are usually investing for the short term (less than 5 years) and pay the lowest prices – often adjusted by direct negotiation with the client at the eleventh hour.
• Family-owned educational companies. These are usually investing for the indefinite future.
• Charitable Trusts. These will nurture and support a school for the indefinite future.

Chesterfield has developed and consistently implements an investment approach which delivers long term performance - robust structure and processes and an unremitting focus.

• Research-aided, empirically supported investment strategies
• Buying for value

• Cheaper assets are more attractive than those selling on higher multiples
• Higher yields accentuate the long term compounding effect

• Managing for performance

• Real estate is highly responsive to active management
• The cash component of total returns is highly persistent
  
  
• Timely sales
  
• Quarterly reality check against each asset's business plan
  
• Annual forward looking IRR assessment
  
• Annual hold/sell analysis