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Smart business professionals sign Smart Deals

As a business owner, you work hard day in, day out. Our mission is to help you work smarter, not just harder. Our Smart Deal offers you the possibility to diversify your assets and enable key employees and successors to participate in the transaction.

What is a Smart Deal?

Strengthening your company’s position

The experience of investors combined with the participation of key employees and successors drives value creation for your company.

Diversifying your assets into a balanced portfolio

Being a business owner with all your assets in a single investment increases your vulnerability to risk. With Smart Deal, you can transform yourself from a risk-exposed business owner into a Smart Deal business owner by diversifying your income streams and, therefore, reducing risk.

No cure no pay

Together we create clear goals and expectations. We will provide you with the relevant legal and contractual advice (on the matter). You will only be charged if we reach the outlined goals.

How does a Smart Deal work?

Jan Verbrugge

Founder

How does a Smart Deal work?

1

Sale of your business

With a Smart Deal, you sell your business to a newly-established holding company.
2

Remaining as shareolder

In the new holding company, you remain a (majority) shareholder.
3

Management and successors

Your management team, key employees and/or familial heirs can participate in the transaction together alongside you.
4

Support from Smart Dealers

Several business professionals invest alongside you and support you with their knowledge, experience and network.
5

Remaining in control

Despite the sale, you remain on as a business manager, retaining leadership and providing consistency and certainty for all involved.
6

Leverage your assets

Finally, the majority of the firm’s value will be moved to your private assets portfolio.

We are on the same wavelength as fellow business professionals

A Smart Deal is an excellent solution for successful business owners who are at a turning point and want to rebalance between their business and personal assets.

  • Strengthen your company’s position while freeing up more personal capital, allowing you to reap the rewards of your success rather than having to wait until later in life.
  • Explore the possibility of enabling key employees and family members to become shareholders early on in the process

SDM is all about entrepreneurs working for entrepreneurs. We are on the same  wavelength and are more than only dealmakers. That is why we begin the process with an in-depth discussion with you to listen to and understand your needs and goals.

Smart deals - van ondernemers, voor ondernemers

Strong figures

80

Of shareholder equity is tied up in a single share: your company

60

Smart Deals entered into

30

Of experience and counting

Others who have already embarked on this journey...

“A Smart Deal is not only about euros and cents. Thanks to the Smart Deal, I’ve grown both as a person and a business professional”

Michel PradoliniIFS International

“Since we decided to go with the Smart Deal, we’ve brought together a large group of committed ambassadors. This gives us a stable foundation for the next five years”

Chris ThiranBelgian Wine Watchers

“The benefits for me as an investor in a Smart Deal, besides the financial, is getting in touch with other entrepreneurs.”

Luk Busschop | Dirk VandeputteVandeputte Safety

Smart Deal Business Club

A Smart Deal also makes you a fully-fledged member of the Smart Deal Business Club. Members of the Smart Deal Club are presented with interesting investment opportunities in an informal networking environment. Members can share their knowledge, visions and plans, as well as gain an understanding of the added value that each member can bring to the table.
Members of the Smart Deal Business Club form a like-minded community of experienced and promising business professionals and investors. Using their secured personal assets, they put their knowledge, experience and drive to work to help make other companies successful.

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We create value for business owners 

We create value for business owners 

We create value for business owners