You run an SME

If you are an SME leader or owner, the decision to open your capital is often the result of:

• Several decades of work
• A strong attachment to your teams
• A close link with your territory/community

Our approach:

• Start from what you have built
• Understand your expectations (wealth management, operational, personal)
• Build a balanced, custom-made partnership within the framework of a platform

Joining a platform backed by Builders Associés generally allows you to:

• Secure a significant portion of your wealth
• Diversify your risks
• Stay at the heart of the project, but with operational and financial support
• Reinvest a portion of your sale proceeds into the platform project, to continue benefiting from future value creation

This reinvestment allows you to move from the status of a "simple seller" to that of a true partner and associate in the project.

Being an SME leader often means:

• Deciding alone
• Juggling between operations, HR, finance, or sales, without having all the necessary support teams
• Managing economic cycles and regulatory constraints

In a platform:

• You are surrounded by other leaders experiencing the same realities
• You strengthen your company and can refocus fully on its development
• You benefit from a central team that takes charge of part of the heavy topics
• You have entrepreneurial founders and investors who understand your issues

We know that the name, culture, and local teams are at the heart of an SME's value. Our philosophy is to respect this DNA, while bringing:

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• Additional resources
• Investment capacity
• Shared support functions
• Development opportunities (new services, new territories, international)

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A possible new step In some cases, joining a platform also opens:

• Development opportunities in other regions of the initial country
• Possibilities for opening up to other European countries
• Sharing best practices with sister entities

We integrate this European dimension whenever it makes sense for the sector and for your company.

Generally:

• Initial discussions with the founding team to understand your project and theirs
• Discussion on the terms of sale/reinvestment
• Joint work on how to integrate your company into the platform, while preserving what makes it unique
• Long-term support: regular exchanges, access to the network and experts