How does selling to employees work?

In an Employee Ownership transition, a trust buys a controlling stake in your business on behalf of employees. You receive a fair market value for your shares, often with significant tax advantages, and the business continues under employee ownership.

What are the tax benefits of Employee Ownership?

Business owners who sell a controlling stake to an Employee Ownership Trust can benefit from zero Capital Gains Tax on the sale proceeds, subject to qualifying conditions. Employees can also receive tax-free bonuses of up to £3,600 per year.

How long does an employee ownership transition take?

A typical Employee Ownership transition takes between 6 and 18 months from initial readiness assessment to completion, depending on the complexity of the business and how prepared the leadership team is. Starting early gives you more options.

For Business Owners

You built something that matters. Now you need a way out that honours it.

A trade sale can mean strangers and losing the legacy that made it special. Traditional routes can be risky and complex. There should be a better way and your employees are it.

The numbers behind the market.

The market you're selling into.

100m

SMEs globally will need to change ownership in the next decade.

Flooded

Supply of businesses for sale already outweighs demand.

Limited

Alternatives. Owners are often steered toward trade sales or PE.

Open to

Risky, complex traditional sale routes.

An alternative path.

What Valloop offers you.

Discreet and confidential

Our platform supports you through the process at your pace, on your terms.

Subscriptions

Costs based on the size of your deal and what you need. Centered around the business, not hourly billing or large upfront fees.

You stay in control throughout

Fair value for what you built. Designed to simplify coordination and remove unnecessary complexity.

Your legacy, protected

Your employees become the owners - not strangers. The culture you built survives the transition.

There's a path for everyone...

Who this is for.

Retiring business owners

Ready to step back. You want a controlled, fair-value transition that keeps the business in the hands of the people who know it best.

PLCs and group structures

Who have a non-core subsidiary that's distracting from your strategy. Transition it to the employees - remove the complexity of a trade sale, release capital, and refocus on your core.

Private equity fund managers

Who have assets that need an exit. A sale to employee ownership offers a credible alternative new route - especially where secondary or trade exits have stalled. Confidential, controlled, on your timeline.

Senior employees ready to lead

Senior leaders already running the business day to day. Ready to own it and now there's a platform and the capital support to make that possible.

Employees who want more

Members of the core employee base in the business. Fundamental to its success but often excluded from profits and voice. We can help you become included.

See your path to employee ownership in minutes.

Your path to employee ownership starts with one document. Your Employee Ownership Charter.

Cut through the complexity - in minutes you'll understand whether the business is a strong EO candidate, what EO could mean for you and how the numbers could work.

Tell us a bit about you and the business and we'll build a clear, confident starting point for one of the most rewarding decisions you'll ever make.

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