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The Emotions of a Deal: How it Feels to Sell Your Business

11th May 2022

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors, USA - Most business owners will only sell one company in a lifetime. While much has been written about what investors look for in a target company and how to structure the best deal, less emphasis is placed on the emotions involved.

Getting Ahead of Recent Change

3rd May 2022

Edgepoint, USA - Change has been around for a long time – the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with first observing “change is the only constant in life.” Some years positive changes outweigh negative ones, but in 2022, a middle market business owner must seemingly cope with a powerful array of negative changes in order to r...

Real Estate in M&A

8th November 2021

BCC Advisers, USA - Depending on the type and size of a business, the associated real estate can represent a significant portion of total proceeds received when a business is sold.

4 ingredients for a successful Management buyout

13th October 2021

Marco Polo Advisor, Italy - In a world rich in liquidity, management is increasingly becoming a scarce resource in corporate finance transactions - and planning an MBO requires four ingredients that are seldom present at the same time

Why the M&A Market Is So Hot (and Why It Matters)

22nd September 2021

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors, USA - A quick scan of the business headlines makes it clear the mergers and acquisition market is on fire and not likely to cool off anytime soon. A convergence of trends is fueling M&A activity across many industries, causing business owners to ask, “Is now a good time to sell?”

Rethinking M&A

30th August 2021

Edgepoint, USA - I’ve been in the middle-market M&A business more than 40 years, and one thing is clear. When you mention an M&A transaction, people talk first about numbers. “What is the trailing 12 months’ EBITDA?” “What is the Enterprise Value-to-EBITDA multiple?” And so on. Why is all the talk about numbers? As the infamous ...