Who you are actually dealing with
MANDA Institute is one named person and the software he built. His name and his email address are on this page, because you should know who is reading your accounts.
- Bn. E. Burnik
- MANDA Institute exists because of one specific failure in the European market. A generation of owners who built their companies over thirty or forty years is now reaching the point of wanting out. The businesses in the middle, too large for a first time individual buyer and too small for most private equity mandates, are the ones with nowhere sensible to go.
- The usual outcome for those owners is not a poor sale. It is no sale at all. The company gets broken into pieces and sold off, or quietly wound down, and decades of work is dismantled because nobody would put a proper process around a business of that size.
- MANDA was built to give that middle a real route out. The same standard of valuation, benchmarking and preparation that has always existed at the top of the market, at a size where it never has.
- Every founder who built something real deserves a dignified way out. That is the whole reason this exists.
- This is his own address rather than a shared inbox, and it is the fastest way to reach a person here.
- Opens an email with the useful questions already in it. Suggest two or three times and he will confirm one. There is a contact form too, though that one reaches the platform inbox rather than him.
- One person is what there is.
- The other firms you are looking at have a team page with eight or ten faces on it. We could fill this page the same way, using advisors who are available to us rather than employed by us, and photographs bought from a picture library. It is common and it takes an afternoon.
- We would rather give you the real number. Today this is one person. If that changes, this page changes with it, and nobody will appear here who does not actually work here.
- There is no photograph above yet, and no picture of a stranger standing in for one. When there is a real one, it goes in that space.
- What software will not do is tell you whether an offer is worse than it looks, or which of your buyers can genuinely pay. That is the part a person does, and here that person is the one named above.
- One named person, start to finish
- Write to the address on this page and the person who reads your accounts is the person who writes back. No account manager, no handover to someone you have not met, no rotating contact.
- Software does the analysis
- Valuation calculations, benchmarking against European sector data and document review run as software. That is why the headcount is one and the work still gets done at a reasonable speed.
- Nothing to pay to talk
- A first conversation costs nothing and carries no obligation. Our published position is that you pay nothing up front, and that starts here. Provisional. No engagement letter has been drafted yet, so this is how we intend to charge rather than terms you can hold us to.
- What happens after you send that email.
- Four steps, and none of them involve a form that goes nowhere or a salesperson calling you back for a fortnight.
- You write, in whatever detail suits you
- One line is enough to start. What the business does, roughly what it turns over, and the thing you are actually trying to work out.
- He replies and confirms a time
- There is no booking calendar on this page, because a diary widget would suggest a bigger operation than this one. Suggest two or three times that suit you and he will confirm one back. It goes to his own inbox rather than a queue, so the reply comes from him.
- A conversation, not a pitch
- About thirty minutes. If the honest answer is that selling now is the wrong move for you, or that your business is not one we can help with, that is what you will be told.
- What you send stays between us
- Nothing you share in a first conversation reaches a buyer. Our published policy is that a listing appears only with your consent, and no listing carries your name unless you decide it should.
- A Leptis Magna Capital company.
- Leptis Magna Capital is the institutional parent. That relationship is what brings proper M&A discipline to companies at the smaller end of the market, where it has rarely been available at a price an owner would accept.
- The same person founded both. That is why you are not being passed between two firms, and not being sold software by one company and advice by another.
- For platform, security and privacy matters, write to tech@manda.institute. For anything about your business or a possible sale, use his address above.
- Write to him. He reads it himself.
- One address, one person behind it. Tell him what the business does and what you are trying to work out, and you will get a considered reply rather than a brochure.
- Built for European businesses
- Free to start. No account needed for the instant benchmark.
- The one success fee we intend to charge, only when a deal closes.
- The instant benchmark takes under 60 seconds.
- Owners across the EU, EEA, UK and wider Europe can use the valuation form.
- Export or permanently delete everything we hold, any time.
- Manufacturing & industry
- Technology & telecoms
- Consumer, retail & media
- Healthcare & education
- Professional & financial services
- Energy, transport & agriculture
- FOR BUYERS
- FOR SELLERS
- Ready to know your number?
- The instant benchmark gives you an indicative value range in under 60 seconds, measured against completed sales of medium sized European businesses. The full valuation takes about 5 minutes, uses your own financials and shows up to four methods. Both are free. Both are indicative estimates, not a formal appraisal.
- The one success fee we intend to charge applies only when a deal closes. Provisional. No engagement letter has been drafted yet, so this is how we intend to charge rather than terms you can hold us to.
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