2023-06-13 12:00:17
A bakery business, equipment for a tiling company, a lingerie stock, an agricultural building, an IV license? Buying a company, or more simply furniture, equipment or an intangible asset such as a patent threatened with compulsory liquidation becomes almost as simple as finding a library or a used car on Leboncoin. With the help of technology, two digital platforms now offer these endangered assets to potential buyers who do not have the desire or the time to scour the legal announcements of the specialized pages of newspapers.
The MesAcquisitions – or MAQ – platform, which is defined as a market place, opens the doors to this over-the-counter market to everyone, entrepreneur or private individual, « opaque and confidential”as explained by Candice Cohen-Louyot, CEO and co-founder of MAQ alongside Yankel Bensoussan and Julien Epin, the “tech” profile of the trio.
« Hundreds of thousands of assets – machines, furniture, equipment – literally go to the dumpster; businesses are disappearing for lack of buyers »poursuit Mme Cohen-Louyot, a former lawyer, who worked for fifteen years with legal representatives and law firms specializing in collective proceedings. According to his estimates, around 200,000 companies are likely to be sold each year in France. Three quarters of them will not find takers and will disappear.
“Accompanying the prospective buyer at every stage”
The idea is therefore not only to allow buyers to make good deals, but also to avoid liquidators or to escape the public auction, which often results in selling off prices. « Our central role is to list assets to be sold, of all types, and to support the prospective buyer at each stage, until the filing of a buyout offer. »
In return for what, assures Mme Cohen-Louyot, young people have been able to buy telephones or computers at a bargain price, entrepreneurs have recovered second-hand equipment, even real estate or a second home, which landed on this platform after the liquidation of a civil real estate company, for example.
Real estate is also the department that works best, followed by professional equipment and vehicles, goodwill and, finally, technology companies. Marketplace traffic is ramping up: starting with 500 users in October 2022, MAQ is about to reach 6,000 users.
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