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How to Sell Your Business to a Competitor: Maintain Anonymity & Achieve Your Ideal Exit

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While its not a purchase agreement, it’s a significant commitment, where you as a business owner agree to give the buyer an exclusive time window (usually around 90 days) to conduct their due diligence and to close the deal. Read the full case study here. The LOI outlines the proposed price and deal structure from the buyer.

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Business Exit Planning: Set and Meet Your Exit Goals

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Launching your exit: Share marketing materials with potential buyers and initiate conversations with interested parties. Executing a Letter of Intent (LOI) and closing the deal: Execute an LOI with a single buyer, engage in the due diligence process, and finalize the deal.

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Top 25 Lower Middle Market Investment Banks of 2023

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With over 100 years of combined experience in the M&A industry, we take pride in being experts at planning, facilitating, and executing exit strategies with extremely favorable results. Given our hourly billing model, we are able to work on transactions that are as small as $500k in EBITDA, all the way up to +$10M in EBITDA.

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Top 25 Lower Middle Market Investment Banks | Q1 2023

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These league tables can serve as an information resource for business owners and investment firms who are actively seeking to hire a vetted M&A advisor to assist them in navigating exit strategy. Find An Investment Banker to Help Sell Your Business Congratulations to the top 25 investment banks!

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Top 25 Lower Middle Market Investment Banks | Q3 2023

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We offer a full range of transaction and advisory services, guiding our clients through sell-side transactions and exit strategy planning, growth through acquisition, debt restructuring and corporate recapitalization.” Our fees are 100% performance based paid at close of transaction.”

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Dead Deal Report: Breaking Down 2024’s Broken LOIs

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Independent Sponsor Business Services QoE EBITDA Discrepancies During due diligence, it was discovered that the add-backs and various financial items were severely misrepresented. Search Fund Technology Software Other The investors were unable to get comfortable with certain risks due to the nature of business and the industry.

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Small Business Exit Strategy: How to Exit Your Business Through an M&A Process

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There are several types of exit strategies for small businesses, each requiring careful planning. In this post, we focus on developing an exit strategy to sell your business through the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process. They need to confirm your commitment to exiting.