SPONSORED | Avoid surprises in deal negotiations by preparing your records in a virtual data room. Ansarada provides the checklist and platform to help sellers get deal-ready
Avoid surprises in deal negotiations by preparing your records in a virtual data room . Ansarada provides the checklist and platform to help sellers get deal-readyOrganised documents and clean financials tell a story.
Ansarada’s virtual data room helps sellers show buyers that they’ve run their business properly. You built your business from the ground up. Early mornings, sleepless nights, difficult calls, and years of backing yourself when nobody else would. And now you’ve made the decision: it’s time to sell.
You know what you want. What you might not know yet is what comes next. That’s not a gap in your capability. It’s a gap in a process that was never designed to explain itself to you.
The buyers, lawyers, advisers, and accountants who inhabit dealmaking have their own language, their own checklists, and their own assumptions about what you should already know. used in dealmaking across more than 180 countries, provides a clear guide to what that preparation looks like in practice. In South African dealmaking, the timeline is often dictated by the buyer. What you can control is how prepared you are when that clock starts.
A disorganised seller signals risk. It raises questions about how well the business has actually been run. Financial recordsExpect buyers to request audited financial statements for the past three to five years, monthly management accounts for the current year, tax clearance certificates and confirmation of Sars compliance, and VAT returns. Also prepare debtor and creditor ageing reports, cash flow forecasts, details of shareholder loans, and banking facility agreements.
Clean financials — no unexplained variances, no outstanding Sars issues — tells a buyer this business has been run properly. That matters as much as the revenue figure itself. Gather your memorandum of incorporation, company registration certificate, shareholders’ register, shareholder agreements, board and shareholder meeting minutes for the past three years, details of any litigation, and copies of all material contracts — suppliers, customers, distributors, partners. Buyers want to see how the business runs without you.
Prepare an organisation chart, employment contracts for senior staff, and details of any outstanding labour disputes or CCMA matters. Include a key-person risk analysis, your top 10 customers by revenue, critical supplier agreements, and any regulatory licences required to operate. Provide your current insurance schedule covering all policies — assets, public liability, business interruption, directors and officers — plus your claims history for the past three to five years.
Any outstanding liability or disputed assessment becomes a buyer’s concern the moment it surfaces. Address it before the process begins. Handshake deals with key customers or suppliers are common in South African small and medium businesses. Formalise them before due diligence, not during it.
If the business runs because of you, a buyer will want to know what happens when you leave. Have an answer, and ideally a management team that demonstrates the business can operate without you. Start with your financials. Get your past three years of audited accounts in order and confirm your Sars status.
Then move through your legal documents: corporate registration, material contracts, leases and intellectual property. As you gather the required documents for each category, upload it to your VDR. Don’t wait until everything is perfect before you start organising. The act of organising surfaces the gaps — and surfacing gaps early is the whole point. Silicon Valley heavyweight Arnold Goldberg joins Naspers board
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