Inside the Harbour Club course you will discover:

Everything You Need To Buy, Sell and Financially Engineer Businesses

The Course.

Lessons from over 100 of my deals boiled down into a step-by-step training.

Direct Access.

Message my private number with any question, concern or challenge.

Joint Venture Opportunities.

New to M&A? Want more deal flow? Partner with Harbour Clubbers and buy companies together.

Free Masterminding.

Meet face to face and brainstorm with Harbour Clubbers in your area.

Supportive & Active Community.

Receive advice from dealmakers with a wealth of experience.

12 Weeks Free Coaching.

Work with veteran Harbour Clubbers to form habits, stay accountable and get your first deal done sooner.

Legal Agreements.

Use watertight documents and templates for every deal structure.

Jeremy Harbour

The Course.

Lessons from over 100 of my deals boiled down into a step-by-step training.

Supportive & Active Community.

Receive advice from dealmakers with a wealth of experience.

Direct Access.

Message my private number with any question, concern or challenge.

12 Weeks Free Coaching.

Work with veteran Harbour Clubbers to form habits, stay accountable and get your first deal done sooner.

Joint Venture Opportunities.

New to M&A? Want more deal flow? Partner with Harbour Clubbers and buy companies together.

Legal Agreements.

Use watertight documents and templates for every deal structure.

Free Masterminding.

Meet face to face and brainstorm with Harbour Clubbers in your area.

The Course

The most comprehensive M&A course in the SME sector operating since 2009
You’ll discover how to source leads, build rapport, structure deals, fix businesses, exit and more.
Step 1: How To Source High Quality Leads
Section one covers the best ways to find motivated sellers and become a deal magnet.
You’ll discover…
  • The direct mail letter that gets a steady stream of leads. (50% of successful deals in our community come from this 129-word template.)
  • The right way to introduce yourself at networking events. (Follow this “G.A.F.S.N” pitching framework to attract more deals.)
  • The 3-step strategy to find directors on LinkedIn. (This 27-word template usually gets Harbour Clubbers a 30% response.)
  • How to attract a consistent flow of leads without cold outreach via direct mail, linkedin or email.
  • The 2-step phone strategy to get drastically more leads from your existing network.
  • How to source leads with credit checking software (and the 6 filters to identify relevant companies).
  • The 3 best pieces of software for credit checking. (Two for the UK, one for everywhere else.)
  • The 6 motivations that compel owners to sell profitable companies for no money down (and the 15 motivations for distressed companies).
  • The right (and wrong) way to delegate lead generation to outsource workers.
  • Correction: You *can* buy businesses listed for sale. (There’s one exception if companies meet 4 specific criteria.)
  • The simplest and most efficient way to send cold emails to business owners and what to say.
  • Should you start a private equity firm? You’ll discover whether it’s right for you.
Step 2: How to Build Rapport and Fact Find
This section covers strategies to start conversations, connect with business owners and extract the facts needed to propose deals.
You’ll discover…
  • 8 criteria every distressed business must meet and the 7 criteria for profitable companies.
  • Warning: Avoid profitable, solvent companies that organise their accounts with this one method.
  • The 4 red flags that make distressed businesses nearly impossible to fix or exit (and one industry to avoid like the plague!)
  • 10 facts you must uncover during your initial conversation.
  • 2 common Merger & Acquisition words that quickly derail talks and break rapport. (Never, ever use these!)
Step 3: How To Structure Win-Win No Money Down Deals
If the target business passes all the criteria, it’s time to make an offer. This section covers 15 deal structures to buy distressed or profitable companies with no money down.
You’ll discover…
  • The deal structure to acquire solvent companies making $1 to $10 million of EBIT for zero cash upfront.
  • M&A for beginners: The simplest way to buy a business without experience or credibility.
  • The smarter way to Roll-Up companies for big exits. (Roll-Ups usually fail because rinsing out synergies destroys a company’s value and culture.)
  • How to persuade large companies (even public ones) to sell their subsidiaries and accept no money down deals.
  • Own a profitable, debt-free company? Discover how to extract cash from your company without dividends, loans or even exiting.
  • Warning: Many shareholders won’t sell their companies for £1/$1 upfront if they suspect a quick 6-figure exit. You’ll discover how to overcome this objection.
  • The 3 best Roll-Up opportunities in the 2020s. (Industries where it’s easy to add a lot of money back to the bottomline.)
  • How to buy businesses with real estate attached to them under market value.
  • The new way to buy large businesses using corporate bonds without high coupon payments, brokerage fees or marketing costs.
  • Deep Dive: How the Agglomeration model works and how it helps small to medium businesses expand globally.
  • The unique opportunity to secure 10-15% stakes in high profit companies without even closing the deals.
The Fastest and Easiest Way To Take A Company Public
IPOs are expensive and time-consuming. You need years worth of audited accounts, a prospectus and more. In fact, our second IPO took 2 years and cost $2 million. Luckily, there’s a better way.
You’ll discover…
  • How to list a company in about 90 days without investors relations or the 7-figure cost.
  • The best stock exchange to list a public company on quickly. (Hint: It’s in Europe.)
  • The legal loophole to take a company public without 3 years of audited accounts. (Normally a requirement.)
  • Before going public you need an LEI, ISIN and ClearStream. You’ll discover how to breeze through these 3 processes in a flash.
  • The most effective way to drive investor interest in a stock report for an IPO.
  • How to legally list a company without a $100,000+ prospectus. (This document provides info to the public about the company’s investment offer.)
  • Successful IPOs need more than profits! You’ll discover the other key ingredient public companies need to prosper.
Step 4: How To Secure Meetings and Close Deals
After you decide on the best deal structures, it’s time to secure a meeting and pitch your offer. This section covers how to successfully book a time, negotiate and then close.
You’ll discover…
  • The 2-step process for presenting no money down deals with minimal resistance.
  • The best way to reset a business owner’s expectations when they overvalue their company.
  • What to do if a business owner isn’t sold on your deal.
  • What you must always ask business owners before they sign the contract. (Ignore this and the business can fail no matter what you do.)
  • The strategy to sweeten the deal and get business owners over the line.
  • What to do when owners keep asking for more and more during negotiations.
Step 5: Legal Tips, Tricks and Loopholes
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer and none of this is legal advice.
After verbal negotiations, the next step is to draft your agreement. This section delves deep into important legal situations, writing contracts, insolvency and more.
You’ll discover…
  • The clause that rinses out additional profits at exit (on top of the sale price).
  • The 5-step process to extract assets from distressed companies without legal ramifications. (Do this wrong and you could land yourself in hot water.)
  • The 5 key clauses to gain full control of a business as a minority shareholder (and how to position each clause as a win-win for the business owner).
  • The do’s and don’ts for writing powerful legal agreements.
  • Should you become the director of a distressed company if the business owner leaves? You’ll find out.
  • How and when to use insolvency (including CVAs, liquidations, Chapter 11’s and Workouts).
  • How to buy and sell a company without triggering multiple “change of control” notifications. (These grind your exit plans to halt.)
  • How to save thousands on legal fees for exceptions when lawyers are necessary. (This strategy saved one Harbour Clubber over £20,000.)
  • The best category to choose when opening a bank account for a holding company. (Pick the wrong industry and your account could get delayed for weeks.)
Step 6: Financial Engineering – How To Quickly Increase Shareholder Value
Once you’ve bought the company, it’s time to do financial engineering. This section details how to pay down creditors without debt, quickly increase shareholder value, remove personal guarantees and more.
You’ll discover…
  • 7 “low hanging fruit” hacks that boost profits fast. (One is to increase prices 5%.)
  • The Never Go Bust Structure: The unusual way to make any company immune from litigation, bankruptcy or insolvency. (Perfect for companies you want to keep.)
  • The 10-day plan to increase shareholder value and improve cash flow in any company. (Works for distressed and solvent companies.)
  • What to never say on your first call with creditors after buying a distressed company and what to do instead.
  • How to recover a company’s debtors (receivables) even if they’ve been chasing these invoices for years. (One Harbour Clubber recovered £500,000 in 10 days doing this.)
  • The unique selling strategy we used to become the #1 contact centre in the UK. (We closed twice as many customers as the industry average.)
  • The most effective way to retain staff and lower turnover without pay rises. (Staff often look for another job after a business changes hands.)
  • How to remove personal guarantees from any company. You’ll discover how I removed an £85,000 personal guarantee to acquire a tech PR firm.
  • How to reduce your sales costs by 80% to improve profitability.
  • 7 pure financial engineering hacks that improve the bottomline. (Works for businesses in any jurisdiction.)
  • How to access large credit facilities without personal guarantees.
  • How to quickly gain control of the company’s bank account without hassles or delays. (Without this strategy, it can take 2 months to get onto the bank mandate.)
  • How to manage the previous owner’s expectations during the turnaround if he stays around.
  • Did you know staff can resist implementing financial engineering measures in a business? Here’s a clever way to make sure they do.
  • The new way to raise capital and take your company global without selling your soul. (Perfect if you’re making over $1 million in EBIT.)
  • How to defer a company’s VAT and PAYE tax bill for 3 months.
  • The one business expense that owners often overpay up to $19,000 per year.
  • The most cost-effective way to honour redundancies for a UK-based business. (No need to hire a HR consultant with this strategy.)
  • How I delayed payments to a key supplier for 6 months (£200,000 in total) and why they happily obliged.
  • How to quickly settle 6-figure debts with suppliers without cash or leverage. (This transforms a distressed company’s balance sheet.)
  • Deep Dive: How one Harbour Clubber used our strategies to take a company from a loss of $449,912 to $1.6 million of net annual profit.
  • The unique strategy that creates shareholder value without sales, marketing or cutting costs. (One UK farmer “created” £30 million doing this.)
  • The unique strategy that often adds £100,000 back to the bottomline of UK companies.
  • 5 costs you can remove from “expenses” to improve profitability. (Most business owners don’t know about these.)
  • How I persuaded the headline speaker to defer his $500,000 fee. (This rescued a distressed company I bought from insolvency.)
  • The 6 strategies one Harbour Clubber used to take a US-based prescription business from a loss of $528,000 to $150,000 of net annual profit.
  • How I bought a technology PR firm for £1 down and exited for $3.7 million. (The only company I’ve ever sold twice!)
Step 7: How To Sell A Business For The Highest Price
After you increase the shareholder value of your company, it’s time to exit. Step 7 covers how to prepare for a sale, where to sell and how to maximize your valuation.
You’ll discover…
  • 6 ways to increase the price earnings ratio (P/E) of a business.
  • The unusual way to generate additional earnings from an exit. (One Harbour Clubber used this strategy to earn an additional £1 million!)
  • How to find buyers who pay up to 70% over market value for a business.
  • The 2 biggest obstacles for buyers and how to overcome them.
  • How to sell to a publicly listed company. You’ll discover who to approach and how to position the deal.
  • The 2 best websites to advertise your business for sale on (and the clever tactic to double your enquiries).
  • How to reclaim a business if the buyer fails to pay your deferral payments.
  • The sure-fire way to get pre-approved finance for Management Buyouts every time.
  • When to hire a broker and the two criteria they must meet.
  • 5 tips to position your company in a positive light to prospective buyers. (Buyers can be skeptical of recent turnarounds.)
Step 8: How To Build Real Wealth
Disclaimer: I’m not a financial advisor and none of this is financial advice.
Once you’ve created a capital event from your exit, it’s time to invest in income-generating assets. This section reveals how to grow real wealth, places I invest my income and what the ultra wealthy do with their money.
You’ll discover…
  • 4 steps to replace your income with passive generating assets in the fastest time possible.
  • The mental “shift” that took one Harbour Clubber’s personal wealth from zero to $1 million in 6 months.
  • The reliable bond in my portfolio that generates a 7.5% return per year.
  • 5 investments I recently put $360,000 (SGD) into and how I made a return of $144,720.
  • How private wealth banking clients turn $500,000 into $100,000 of recurring annual income.
  • The rare stock with fast growth and high yield. (Most stocks are only one or the other.)
  • How to invest in real estate without mortgages, personal guarantees or tenants.
  • How I get a 25.70% annual return on Facebook, Netflix & Alibaba stocks without owning them. And how some investors can get an incredible 80% return. (This is the power of private wealth banking.)
  • The 3 best countries in which to open a private wealth bank account. (Most jurisdictions only offer “retail versions” of financial products with higher costs and lower returns.)
Why should I choose the Harbour Club?
There are 5 reasons.
You get…
Unparalleled level of experience.
I’ve completed over 100 deals myself and advised on another 300 with my students. You won't find anyone with this depth of knowledge in the SME sector.
Everything needed to succeed.
World-class training, coaching, accountability, legal documents, templates, joint venture opportunities and a supportive community.
Personal access to me.
No matter what question or challenge you have, you can message me for help and I’ll personally reply to you.
Proprietary deal structures.
These are specific structures that we invented and give you an edge over other people trying to do deals. No one else can use them.
No bait and switch.
Unlike many other training companies, you won’t be offered upsells, recurring memberships or higher priced programs. I buy and sell businesses for a living. I don’t have ambitions to build a training company empire.