Latest Exit Planning Articles
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Valuation
Business Valuation: An Analysis of Risk
Analyzing risk is the predominate factor in valuing a business. The appraiser must analyze every aspect of the business and quantify his/her analysis of the...
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Sale Process
Should You Hire a Sell-Side Advisor or Do it Yourself?
It’s a new year and many of you may be thinking that this is the year that you’ll cash-in and sell your business.While the decision to sell the successful...
By: Chad Byers
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Maximize Value
5 Value Creation Techniques in Roll-Ups
Creating value when acquiring and combining companies is not easy. In theory, the sum of the parts will be more valuable than each part individually. However, there...
By: Erick Hamdan
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Pre Sale
To Sell Your Business, Start With the End in Mind
The world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is filled with sale transactions of middle market and lower middle market companies at prices well below what the...
By: Charles Smith
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Sale Process
Key Factors in Executing a Management Buyout
If you’ve ever dreamed of buying out the owner of your company, running it the way you want and accumulating the profits from your efforts, you might be interested...
By: Robert Napoli
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Sale Process
The Investment Banking Landscape: Different Types of M&A Firms
There are different types of firms that a business owner can engage with for the sale of his or her businesses. Each of these firms can provide a different set of...
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Sale Process
5 Tips for Succession Planning
One of the most common traits among the numerous entrepreneurs and business owners whom I have met over the years, is that they are focused on crystallizing the various...
By: Adam Croft
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Maximize Value
EBITDA Engineering Before Selling a Business
EBITDA is a commonly used metric for the valuation of mid-market businesses. Now, the appropriateness of using EBITDA can be debated, but the fact is that most estimates...
By: John Carvalho | President, Divestopedia Inc.
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Maximize Value
Podcast: How to Utilize Tax Benefits in a Successful Exit, an Interview with Bill Smith
About the HostRyan is an entrepreneur, podcast host of the show Life After Business and the co-owner of Solidity Financial. Having personally experienced the hazards of...
By: Ryan Tansom
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Pre Sale
Does It Have to Be 'Shirtsleeves-to-Shirtsleeves?'
The world over, in virtually every culture, there are such truisms as “from rags to riches to rags,” “wealth doesn’t pass three generations&rdquo...
By: Cindy Radu
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Sale Process
All Companies Need to Look at Succession Planning
Most owners of small- to medium-sized businesses and their senior managers give little consideration to succession planning. In fact, it is often considered synonymous...
By: Brad Cherniak
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Pre Sale
Kids Taking Over the Business? 8 Things to Consider
Many business founders dream of the day they can transition the business to their children. But while there is much in the literature that talks about estate planning...
By: Josh Patrick
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