In the last few years, particularly with sluggish M&A activity as well as depressed valuations and market confidence, more owners are selling their businesses to their employees via an Employee Ownership Trust scheme (EOT) benefitting from significant tax savings.

You've dreamt about it many a time but actually becoming the owners of the company you work for may feel a bit too farfetched. An MBO presents risk and stress, from executing the deal to running the business. It can start to become overwhelming, but it doesn’t need to. Here is our 101 on MBO’s.

You know you need money. You know there a lots of options out there. But what do they all mean and where do you start? Before you hit google, let us try and shine some light on raising finance for you: