Money was the means. It was never the meaning. The meaning was the legacy. The freedom. The proof. I make sure the deal honours all of it.
To raise the capital that takes what you are building to the next level. To sell what you have built for what it is worth. To get what you are building, built. For UK founders, owner-managers, and property developers.
Tell me your goals. Your dreams. Your vision for what comes next. The detail belongs in a conversation.
Who This Is For
Who I Work With — UK Founders, Owner-Managers, and Property Developers
Two kinds of client. The years you have put in are real. The next move is the one that pays you back for them.
Founders & Growth-Stage Businesses
You have got revenue, a team, and a business that works. And you have the picture in your head of what it becomes. That picture is the vision.
The next move is what makes it real. Capital that takes it further. A sale that pays for what comes next.
The work has been there before — capital raised, a business built and sold, a company taken to market. When you sit across from an investor or a buyer, you sit across with someone who has been on both sides of that table. The work is the same: protect the vision while the deal gets done.
Capital Raise Preparation
Exit Readiness Review
Commercial Direction
Operating Partner
Property Developers & Landlords
You have got the site, the planning, or the half-built project. And you have the picture in your head of what stands there when it is done. That picture is the vision.
The next move is what gets it built. Capital next to the project. The right introduction to the right money.
Tens of millions of euros placed into European real estate. The project read by a family office, a private investor, and an institutional desk — and presented to each in the language they speak. Where the deal needs a regulated party, the introduction is made. The work is the same: protect the vision while the building goes up.
Property Advisory
Capital Raise Preparation
Operating Partner
Introductions to Authorised Partners
Quiet Work · Specific Outcomes
The Approach — How a Capital Raise, an Exit, or a Commercial Decision Actually Starts
By the time you walk into the meeting, the work is already done. The numbers are clean. The story is straight. The questions an investor or a buyer will ask have been asked first — and answered. And the vision moves one step closer to real.
One conversation to begin. No fee. Tell me about the business. Where it is now. Where you want it to be. What you want from it. By the end of the call, we both know whether there is good work to do together — and you have a clearer picture either way.
The price an offer comes in at depends on what a buyer's team finds when they look at the books. The work is to look first. Find what they would have found. Fix it. So the offer comes in at the top end of what it should be — not the bottom.
Capital Raise Preparation
Shaped to where you are
Improve the odds of getting the capital.
Investors decide fast. Most no's come down to numbers that do not hold up under due diligence, a story that does not land, or a pitch deck that buries what matters. The work is to fix all of that before the meeting — so the odds of a yes are as high as they can be when you walk in.
Commercial Direction
Shaped to where you are
To make the big calls with experienced counsel beside you.
To stand beside you as counsel when the decisions get made — even kings seek counsel. To bring twenty-five years of additional expertise into the room. As impactful as a full-time hire, without the legislation, the overhead, or the cost.
Financial Reality Session
£2,500 fixed
To go to the next level, you need to know the numbers.
To see what the business is actually worth today. To see what a buyer or investor would see when they look. To walk into the next decision with the real position in your hand.
Operating Partner
Retainer + equity
To turn the funding into the business it was meant to be.
To put senior leadership inside the business — not advice from outside. To run strategy, structure, and execution day to day, alongside the founder. To take the equity and stand behind it. Typically 12–36 months.
Property Advisory
Shaped to where you are
To put your project in front of the right capital.
To package the project the way a family office, a private investor, or an institutional desk wants to read it. To make the introduction to the right kind of money for the deal. To get the cash injection that takes the project to the next phase of your vision.
Not sure which one is for you? Good. That is what the call is for.
Prestige & Co is a commercial consultancy, not a regulated firm. Where regulated advice is required, we refer to appropriately authorised partners.
The Founder
Solomon Prestige — A Corporate Financier Who Has Built, Raised, and Sold
Twenty-five years in, that is still what I am here for.
Twenty-five years across retail banking, investment banking, real estate, technology, and corporate finance. Different rooms, different desks, the same thread through all of it: structuring the deal, helping people reach the financial outcome they were working toward.
Plenty of corporate financiers can read a balance sheet. Far fewer have raised the money themselves, scaled a team, pitched a room of investors.
The anxiety of the term sheet that has not arrived. The pressure of payroll before the round closes. The doubt at 2am when the model has been redrawn for the fifteenth time. All of it familiar — because it has been faced from your side of the table, not just observed from across it.
A capital raise, faced as a founder. A business built and sold. A tech company taken to market. Highly commended at industry level. Tens of millions placed across European real estate. The work — done from inside the room.
Trained in the UK, working across Europe, having built businesses myself, not just advised on them. The result is a corporate financier who understands what you are facing — because the room you are sitting in is a room I have been sitting in too.
Two decades of turning people’s goals into reality. That is why I am still here. The detail belongs in a conversation, not on a website.
Current Roles
2024 — PresentFounder, Prestige & Co — Corporate advisory for UK founders, owner-managers, and property developers.
2021 — PresentHead of Investment & Deal Origination, Hansson & Hertzell Invest — Originating and structuring European real estate opportunities for institutional and family-office capital.
Earlier Experience
Founder, online recruitment business — Built from the ground up, taken to market, sold.
Director of Commercial & Go-To-Market, UK mobile engagement startup — Built the commercial model from scratch, secured a major airport as a launch partner, pitched a global fast-food brand at director level. Industry award — highly commended.
Senior commercial roles, global web development — Scaling product, team, and revenue.
2001 — 2010UK Financial Services — Mortgage advisor. Financial advisor. Wealth manager. Equities fundraiser. Mergers and acquisitions. Business exits. Helping clients structure portfolios, raise capital, and reach long-term financial goals.
Frequently Asked
What Founders, Owner-Managers and Property Developers Ask Most
How do I prepare for a capital raise in the UK?
The work that gets you the yes is done before the meeting, not in it. Numbers that hold up under due diligence. A pitch deck that puts what matters first. A founder who walks into the room with the answer ready to every question they will be asked. That is what Capital Raise Preparation does — so the odds of a yes are as high as they can be when you walk in.
What is exit readiness?
The work done before sale, so the business shows its true worth to a buyer. To clean the numbers a buyer will look at. To strengthen anything that depends too heavily on one person, one customer, or one contract. To walk into the sale with nothing for the buyer to push back on — and the offer comes in at the top end of what it should be, not the bottom.
How do I prepare a UK business for sale?
Start earlier than you think. There is real work to do before any buyer is in the room — fixing the things a buyer's team will use to push the valuation down, before they ever come up. The Exit Readiness Review is the structured way to do that work, so the price you finally accept is the one your years are worth, not the one you settled for.
What do investors look for in due diligence?
Clean numbers. A credible model. A coherent story. A founder who can answer hard questions without flinching. Due diligence readiness is built into Capital Raise Preparation from day one — not bolted on at the end.
What does a fractional CFO do?
A fractional CFO brings senior financial leadership into a business without the cost of a full-time hire. Strategy, structure, the calls that move the numbers. At Prestige & Co, the equivalent service is Commercial Direction — counsel beside you when the big decisions get made, twenty-five years of experience in the room, without a senior salary on the books.
Is Prestige & Co regulated by the FCA?
No. Prestige & Co is a commercial advisory consultancy, not a regulated firm. We do not arrange investments. We do not provide regulated financial advice. Where regulated advice is required, we refer to appropriately authorised partners. The work we do is the commercial preparation that gets the deal to the table — not the transaction itself.
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