Selling your business is not just a financial transaction but a significant life change that requires careful consideration of your future identity and purpose.

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For founders thinking about selling their companies, we're fielding a lot of questions about whether they've missed their window. The answer depends a bit more now on market/buyer sentiment and their need for bank/mezzanine financing, yet still mostly on the businesses' transferability of economics and the founders' WHY in selling.

Do you want to retire? Do you want to do something else? Change your role? Are you burned out? Getting clear on this will help to navigate through challenges in every facet of your capital event!

Many founders, whether other transactional advisors are involved or not, rely on their generalist corporate counsel to represent them in the sale of their business. Here's a few reason that familiarity and cost savings in the short run may cost millions of $ in the long run.

We're taking an increasing number of weekly calls from founders who's businesses may not yet be at an optimal value point for a sale, but the fear of missing out on this M&A boom has them eager to explore a capital event. We suggest most of them should wait for the next wave and keep building value.

If you're a founder contemplating a sale or in process of selling your company, you might wonder how long your deal should take to close...the answer is more complicated than you might think, and speed (or lack of it) can have implications for buyers and sellers.

If you're a founder who was hoping to sell in 2021, either to tap the M&A boom, or avoid higher capital gains taxes, or just because you're ready to be done, the bad news is you've probably missed the market. But there's a silver lining in waiting to 2022 and beyond!

For founders contemplating a sale of their business, there are some crosswinds ahead, including the potential for higher taxes, geopolitical instability, and a tired bull market. Should you accelerate or hold off? We have thoughts...

If you're a founder of a successful company going through a capital event, prepare yourself for the likelihood you'll have at least one hiccup somewhere in the process. Almost every deal has one. They usually don't have to derail your transaction, but they're usually tricky to navigate. Make sure you have the right advisors to help.

Need help sorting some things out?

Suffering from misaligned shareholder interests or have the wrong financial partners, or maybe you just need more or better capital sources?

We've got a proprietary database of funding options to fit each unique circumstance.

Going through a divorce? Death of a co-founder? Expensive debt threatening the continued success of the business?

We have a network of resources and capital providers to address these issues and many more.

Maybe you and your partner no longer see eye to eye and it’s just time to move on, but you don’t have the capital to buy him out.

Or maybe you’d like to continue, but your partner wants to retire, and neither of you has the capital to go forward while allowing for these divergent paths, so you’ll need to sell or wind down the business.

We have dozens, if not hundreds of growth equity, structured finance, and traditional private equity firms in our network that are set up specifically to provide capital to solve these dilemmas.

We can help!

Founders are asking us if they should hold off selling in the pandemic. Surprisingly, the answer has more to do with the dynamics of their business than outside factors…