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Pre-Sale Compliance Audit — Maximise Your Licence Value

Independent compliance audit before selling your FCA-regulated business. Fix issues, boost value, attract better buyers.

Maximise Your Licence Value Before Sale

Before bringing a regulated entity to market, conducting a Pre-Sale Compliance Audit is one of the most important steps a seller can take to protect their negotiating position, maximise the valuation achievable, and avoid costly surprises during buyer due diligence. An undisclosed compliance gap identified by a buyer’s advisers can dramatically reduce the offer price, introduce complex transaction conditions, or cause a deal to collapse entirely.

Acumen Global Compliance’s Pre-Sale Compliance Audit provides sellers with an objective, detailed assessment of their regulated entity’s compliance position — covering AML/CTF framework quality, FCA permission scope and usage, safeguarding or client money arrangements, regulatory correspondence history, CDD file quality, staff training records, financial promotions compliance, and SMCR accountability documentation. We identify any issues before buyers do — giving you the opportunity to remediate them, disclose them accurately, or factor them into your pricing strategy — and produce a clean, presentable compliance record that instils buyer confidence.

Key Facts

Who needs this

Licence holders preparing to sell

Requirement

N/A — best practice for sellers

Timeline

2–3 weeks

Price from

POA

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    Get Pre-Sale Audited

    Our Pre-Sale Audit Process

    Full Compliance Review

    Review all compliance arrangements against current FCA requirements.

    AML Framework Audit

    Assess AML policies, CDD records, and transaction monitoring.

    Regulatory Status Check

    Verify FCA register status, permissions, and any outstanding conditions.

    Gap Identification

    Identify all compliance gaps and remediation requirements.

    Remediation Support

    Fix identified issues to maximise licence value before sale.

    Vendor Report

    Produce a vendor due diligence report for prospective buyers.

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    What's Included

    Full compliance review

    FCA register status verification

    Capital adequacy check

    Remediation support

    Valuation enhancement advice

    AML framework assessment

    Safeguarding review

    Gap analysis report

    Vendor due diligence report

    Buyer Q&A preparation

    FAQs

    Frequently Asked Questions

    It identifies and fixes issues before buyers find them — preventing price reductions, deal delays, or lost buyers.
    A clean compliance record can increase licence value by 20–40%. Buyers pay more for certainty.
    We help you fix them. Most issues can be remediated in 2–4 weeks with our support.
    You choose whether to share it. A positive vendor DD report gives buyers confidence and speeds up transactions.
    2–3 weeks for the audit, plus additional time for any remediation work needed.
    Before. Fix any issues before going to market for the best outcome.

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    Sell your FCA licence.

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    Fair market valuation.

    AML Compliance Audit

    Independent AML audit.

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