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When selling your business, your M&A advisor has multiple roles. Primary, of course, is marketing your business. They negotiate the sale on your behalf, steer the process through due diligence, and ensure everyone is on the same page around key negotiation points. But your M&A advisor is the quarterback, not the whole team. Your advisor

\”Ty Cobb was the leading batter in the history of baseball, and he only got on base about one-third of the time. I guess I shouldn’t feel so bad.” Reggie (not his real name) may not have felt so bad, but I sure did. In late 2018, he retained me to sell his company. We identified

We’ve sent out the marketing information, courted our key buyers, vetted letters of intent, and held 90-minute conference calls. Now we’re down to the key moment: The M&A management presentation. It’s the first time our would-be buyers and sellers get together face-to-face. It’s kind of like meeting the parents for the first time. There’s a

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And when it comes to selling your business, value is in the eye of the buyer. Lower-to-mid-size businesses typically go to market without a preset asking price. You will set an internal benchmark with your M&A advisors, but we won’t publish or discuss your value expectations with

When selling your business, you need to decide what to do with your business real estate. Do you want to sell it or hold on to it? And what should happen if you don’t own your real estate? Those are important questions to answer as you plan to sell. You lease. Let’s start with businesses

When selling your business, your M&A advisor has multiple roles. Primary, of course, is marketing your business. They negotiate the sale on your behalf, steer the process through due diligence, and ensure everyone is on the same page around key negotiation points. But your M&A advisor is the quarterback, not the whole team. Your advisor

Timing isn’t everything, but it means a lot.   When you’re ready to sell your business, timing the market matters more as your business size increases. Over the last six years, multiples (an industry metric for business valuations) in Main Street have stayed pretty consistent within a 10 percent range, while lower middle market multiples

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” So said John F. Kennedy in his 1962 State of the Union address, trying to drum up support for his anti-recession policies. As I came across this quote, it got me thinking about today’s market and how we should all be taking advantage

Recently, we did an estimate of value (EOV) for a company, calculating that it would sell for around $8 million or $9 million in the current market. It’s a nice business and I think that number is achievable. We might even get a bit more with a strategic buyer. The business owners were surprised, as