Our People

Rupert is a qualified commercial solicitor with over 37 years’ experience in corporate finance and business sales, having set up and managed the second largest business brokerage in the country.

As Managing Director of Turner Butler, Rupert specialises in business sales and company valuations, advising business owners who are considering an exit and helping them achieve a confidential and professionally managed sale.

He is an acknowledged expert in business sales.

Rupert has extensive experience across a wide range of business sectors and his expertise and comments on business sales have been featured in the national press.

Rupert holds a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia and brings more than three decades of experience in corporate finance and business sales to his role at Turner Butler.

His focus is on providing professional business brokerage and valuation services to business owners looking to sell their businesses.

John has worked with and given advice to many thousands of business owners over the past thirty years. His areas of expertise are primarily exit strategy planning and company growth via niche sector consolidation.

John has also acquired and operated businesses himself, giving him practical experience of the opportunities and challenges faced by business owners considering growth or an eventual sale.

He has acquired a number of companies himself and at one point employed more than three hundred people.

Over the years he has worked with high profile industry leaders as well as a number of top six accountancy firms.

His experience gives him a strong understanding of different business models, business cycles and the issues that owners need to consider when planning their future options.

John has also previously been an angel investor in a number of 'start up' situations.

Tom’s early career was within the banking sector ultimately specialising in property finance. In 1979 Tom established his own Property Consultancy/Estate Agency Business and followed this with a Business Brokerage Circa 1990.

Tom has more than 40 years’ experience in business brokerage and has extensive experience of matching business buyers and sellers.

Tom holds or has held various other directorships and is Turner Butler’s director for Ireland.

Tom is a chartered surveyor by profession.

His background in property finance, business brokerage and surveying gives him broad commercial experience when advising business owners.

In his spare time Tom enjoys a little gardening.