Jeremy Harbour is the founder of Unity Group Holdings a Singapore based private equity group, and The Harbour Club, which is a business acquisitions (M&A) training programme. Jeremy has acquired in excess of 100 companies during his time. Matt and Jeremy discuss how Jeremy got into business acquisitions, how he has built his portfolio and touching on some of the exits that he has generated.
Show Notes
Jeremy Harbour is the founder of Unity Group Holdings a Singapore based private equity group, and The Harbour Club, which is a business acquisitions (M&A) training programme.
Jeremy has acquired 100+ companies in what he calls agglomerations, which are consolidations of complimentary businesses which he then seeks to list on the stock market. He recently set up MBH Corporation Plc which has an approx market cap of £21.90m.
Matt and Jeremy discuss how Jeremy got into business acquisitions, how he has built his portfolio and touching on some of the exits that he has generated.
Key takeaways:
- Important to understand and quantify what the real risks are.
- Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but won’t get you anywhere!
- Remove the risks from the transactions - asymmetric approach - protect the downside, leave the upside intact.
- A tidal wave of opportunity is available right now
- The baby boomers have seen this movie before and have seen how it ends!
- After every drug binge there has got to be a hangover - in the context of the economy being propped up, the analogy is that it is on drugs!
- Go do deals!
- Don’t use business brokers.
- Start before you are ready.
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