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Awakened Titans Podcast - Lily Patrascu

Awakened Titans Podcast - Lily Patrascu

Sell Your Business At Highest Valuation - Saul Cohen And Lily Patrascu

July 21, 2025

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Multimillionaire Acquisitions Advisor Shares How To Sell Your Business At Highest Valuation - Saul Cohen And Lily Patrascu

Saul Cohen, who has supported over 100 acquisitions, specializes in helping business owners sell their companies at the highest possible valuation in the shortest possible time span. He explains that 80–85% of businesses never sell, often because they are structured as lifestyle businesses where the owner is the primary asset. Saul emphasizes that successful exits require building identifiable, transferrable assets and a strong second-tier management team. He recommends a three-year process to systemize operations, clean up financials, and shift the owner's role to make the business more appealing to buyers. One of his clients improved from a £600K valuation to a £1.6M sale after implementing quarterly management accounts and hiring a competent in-house bookkeeper.

About The Guest

Saul Cohen is an experienced accountant and acquisitions advisor, passionate about helping entrepreneurs achieve financial growth through strategic acquisitions and insightful financial planning. Having supported over 100 acquisitions, Saul brings a wealth of expertise in guiding business owners through complex transactions. With a background at firms like PwC and BT, and having worked with clients such as JP Morgan, EasyJet, and Tesco, he offers insight across multiple industries. He is particularly dedicated to assisting business owners who feel stuck, providing guidance on tax planning, exit strategies, and acquisitions to ensure long-term financial success.

Saul helps entrepreneurs shift from day-to-day operations to thinking like investors, maximizing both business value and personal wealth. His unique perspective and creative approach to accounting make him a valuable resource for planning future growth while optimizing current operations.

For More Info About Saul Cohen, visit:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cohensaul/

Website: https://theexperteye.co.uk/

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0:00 Introduction: Selling Your Business

0:07 Guest Introduction: Saul Cohen

0:45 Podcast Welcome and Overview

1:08 Business Valuation Challenges

3:30 Strategies for Increasing Business Value

4:30 Understanding Business Assets

6:14 Solutions for Higher Valuation

13:25 Case Studies of Successful Sales

29:14 Conclusion and Contact Information

About The Host

Lily Patrascu is an ultra-creative book publisher and personal brand strategist for thought leaders, CEOs, luxury influencers. As an influencer, bestselling author, copywriter, global speaker, she supports busy entrepreneurs to find their message and share it with millions of people.

Feel free to connect with me or find out more about my book publishing/influential entrepreneur events/speaking/ projects here: https://linktr.ee/lilypatrascu & www.lily.global I am launching a few collaborative books: on property wealth strategies, confidence, millionaire secrets, health tools, AI, and seeking influencers with large communities to promote their expertise with the books. I can help you write/ghostwrite and publish your books in 90 days. Message me (Lily) on +447557351222 to collaborate.

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Key topics

Scaling Through Acquisitions and Strategic Growth

Saul outlines how small businesses can leverage mergers and acquisitions to fuel growth and long-term success. He shares actionable steps for navigating acquisitions, optimizing tax efficiency, and preparing for business succession with impactful financial planning.

Why Most Founders Misjudge the Leap from Operator to Investor

Seven-figure owners often stay busy and broke on paper—tied to payroll, key clients, and a single fragile asset. The trap is mistaking income for wealth. Saul Cohen shows how to flip the risk-reward profile by treating the company like an asset to optimise, not a job to protect. He breaks down the valuation levers that actually move multiples—recurring revenue, margin quality, customer concentration, working-capital discipline, and management depth—and why an early, clean exit can beat years of incremental grind. Then he maps the redeployment: moving from one big bet to a portfolio through acquisitions, passive stakes, and disciplined criteria that protect downside. Drawing on PwC training, buy-side and sell-side deals, and hands-on work helping founders scale and sell, Saul gives a precise, practical path: diagnose the operator trap, set a valuation target, execute pre-exit upgrades, structure tax-efficient terms, and build an investor’s playbook for compounding. The result is real freedom—time, optionality, and wealth that isn’t welded to a desk.

Run Your Business Like It’s Under Due Diligence and Buyers Will Pay Up

Deals are won or discounted in diligence, not in the pitch—and that’s where many seven-figure owners quietly lose six or seven figures. Most treat Quality of Earnings as a buyer’s audit; Saul reframes it as a year-round operating system that makes earnings repeatable and cash real. Drawing on PwC audit training and hands-on buy-side and sell-side work, he shows founders how a 6–12 month “sell-side QoE sprint” locks revenue definitions, normalises owner add-backs, proves cash conversion, stabilises working capital, and documents tax positions before a buyer ever looks. The payoff is hard: fewer surprises, stronger multiples, tighter working-capital pegs, and cleaner completion—freedom bought at the best price, not the fastest exit.

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