At Pinnacle Corporate Solutions, our purpose is simple: to help business owners build stronger, more profitable and more valuable companies, and ultimately realise the rewards of everything you have worked so hard to create.

Whether you want to grow, win larger contracts, improve profitability, reduce costs, secure finance, strengthen your management team, or prepare for an eventual exit, we bring the experience and commercial expertise to help you achieve success.

Experience that makes a difference

I personally have more than 30 years of commercial and advisory experience, including advising for the world's leading management advisory organisation and serving as Vice President of an American investment bank. Our team is equally skilled and experienced.
 

I have for many years advised businesses on growth, M&A, finance, negotiation, and value creation. Importantly, I have also been a business owner myself, founding, scaling and successfully exiting companies in multimillion pound transactions. So I understand business from both sides of the table.

I know what it means to have your money, future and family's financial security invested in a company, and I understand how important the decisions surrounding that business can become.

We don't just advise - We help make things happen

Pinnacle is deliberately different to traditional consultancy firms. We don't want to simply analyse your business, produce a report and leave you to implement it. We ideally work alongside you, identify where improvements can be made and help turn those opportunities into results.
 

That could mean increasing sales, introducing operational efficiencies, winning significant new contracts, reducing supplier costs, improving margins, negotiating better commercial agreements, securing finance, strengthening management or making the business less dependent upon you.
 

Everything comes back to five objectives:
 

Profit - Growth - Value - Freedom - and Legacy Protection
 

A stronger and more profitable business doesn't simply generate more money today. It can also become substantially more valuable tomorrow.

An additional £200,000 of sustainable EBITDA, for example, could potentially represent £1 million of additional enterprise value at a five times valuation multiple.
 

That is why we don't simply ask, "What can we improve?" We ask, "How much value can we create?"

Planning to sell? Start well in advance

If an eventual exit is part of your plan, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is waiting until you decide to sell before preparing the company.
 

I would much rather work with you one, two, three or even five years beforehand.
 

That gives us time to increase profitability, strengthen management, improve recurring revenues, reduce costs and commercial risks, improve financial reporting and remove the weaknesses that could concern a future buyer.

Most importantly, it gives us time to make your company more attractive and potentially considerably more valuable.
 

My objective isn't simply to help you sell your business.I want to help make it worth more before you sell.

You may only sell your company once. The difference between an average outcome and an exceptional one can represent hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of pounds.

And you don't necessarily have to sell to retire

If you want to step back but retain ownership, we can help structure the business to operate successfully without your daily involvement.
 

By strengthening management, improving governance and introducing experienced Non Executive support where appropriate, it may be possible to protect your investment while allowing the company to continue providing income throughout your retirement. Because ultimately, this isn't simply about the business. 

It's about what you want the business to achieve for you
 

You may want to grow it, make more profit, work fewer hours, secure your family's future, retire, retain ownership or eventually achieve the best possible price when you sell.
 

Whatever your ambition, Pinnacle brings together decades of experience in business growth, investment banking, M&A, finance and negotiation to help you get there.

Let's start with a conversation - 

Please email me at: david.birkhead@pinnacle-corporate-solutions.com