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Transitional Service Agreement
A transitional service agreement (TSA) is a type of agreement that is made between the buyer and seller of a company. In this arrangement, the seller agrees to provide certain services to the buyer at a predetermined price. These services can include accounting, IT and human resources and their...
Cash Sweep
A cash sweep is the use of a company's excess cash to pay outstanding debts ahead of the scheduled payment date instead of giving it to their investors or shareholders. This process helps a company to minimize risk and liability as well as pay its debt at a faster rate than what is expected or...
Expression of Interest
In a nutshell, an expression of interest is an informal declaration that a buyer, whether strategic or financial, would like to purchase a business. The expression of interest will also provide the seller with a range of possible buying prices.Most investment bankers also require it to include at...
Business Valuation Excel Template: 10 Simple Steps to Success
Determining the value of your business is the starting point to building value. Here’s how to set up a simple valuation template in excel.
By: John Carvalho | President, Divestopedia Inc.
A Summary of M&A Fees for Sell-Side Transactions
An overview of M&A fees for sell-side transactions.
Neutralizing the Due Diligence Grind
This article explains how to negate the due diligence grind that can potentially decrease your sale price.
What is the impact of supplier concentration on business value?
Concentration in the acquisition world is a bad word. Businesses with high supplier concentration attract fewer buyers and this lowers the price. What’s too high? Having a supplier with 40% of your business is too high. Diversify if at all possible. When buyers look at a company for sale,...
What's the difference between growth capex, maintenance capex and internally financed capex?
There are generally two reasons companies spend money on capital expenditures (capex): to grow the business, and to maintain the business. Once a company determines it needs to make a capex investment it must decide how to pay for the capex, either using company cash or debt. Let’s explore each...
What are some creative M&A deal structures?
So there are a couple of things here. One deal structure that is starting to pop up is Davids buying Goliaths. When we think of M&A, we think of transactions involving companies smaller than us as acquisitions and transactions of our peers as mergers, but then there’s no term for a...
