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The Deal Room Club

If you’re running a business that isn’t deal-ready— ready to exit, ready to acquire, or ready to take on investment— then your business is underperforming. You won’t realise its full value. And you won’t be able to take advantage of opportunity when it appears. Only a small percentage of businesses that go to market evercomplete a sale. Four out of five fail. And many more are never even in a position to try. Not because they’re bad businesses. But because they weren’t genuinely deal-ready whenopportunity knocked. This is The Deal Room Club, the podcast where you go inside the deal room with the people who close dozensof transactions each year. Becoming deal-ready isn’t something you do six months beforeyou want to sell. It should be how you build and run your business from day one. That’s why we created this podcast. In each episode, I interview the professionals who sit around the deal table— M&A advisers who find buyers, corporate financiers who structure transactions, solicitors who draft the agreements, and accountants who scrutinise the numbers. These are the people who’ve guided hundreds of exits— and know exactly what makes deals succeed or fall apart. Whether you’re planning to sell next year, thinking about taking on investment, or simply want to build a more valuable business— this podcast will show you what buyers and investors really look for, what kills deals, and how to make your business perpetually sale-ready, acquisition-ready, and investment-ready. Welcome to The Deal Room Club and myself PaulFreudenberg. Let’s get started.