When your client sells, Duran runs the transaction and your work stays yours. Who owns which lane, what the deal data says, and how referrals stay compliant.
How Duran’s Coordinated Advisor Team Works With Your Client’s CPA and Attorney Read More »
Professional standards recognize three approaches to value. Learn when earnings set your price, when assets take over, and why you need both numbers before going to market.
Asset-Based vs Earnings-Based Valuation: When Each Applies Read More »
How fair value vs. fair market value, DLOC and DLOM discounts, and the valuation date decide the number when an independent business valuation enters a shareholder dispute.
Shareholder Disputes: The Role of an Independent Business Valuation Read More »
Across all deals, earn-outs pay only about 21 cents on the dollar, and barely half pay anything. A seller’s guide to how earn-outs work, get taxed, and how to protect yours.
Earn-Outs Explained: How Sellers Get Paid Over Time Read More »
Most businesses take 6 to 12 months to sell, plus prep time. See the realistic stage-by-stage sale timeline, what speeds it up or slows it, and 2025 data.
How Long Does It Take to Sell a Business? Realistic Timelines Read More »
A 36-month exit plan built on the Value Acceleration Methodology: discover where you stand, prepare and grow value, then decide to execute a sale plan.
The 36-Month Exit Plan: What Owners Should Do Before They Sell Read More »
Two businesses with the same profit can sell for very different prices. The difference is not luck and it is rarely the industry. It is a set of specific, improvable qualities that tell a buyer how safe, transferable, and growable your company is once you are gone. Buyers price risk. The more risk you remove
What Buyers Actually Pay For: 16 Levers Across the 8 Drivers and 8 Functions Read More »
A family-law attorney’s guide to engaging a business valuator: standard of value, goodwill, double-dipping, the valuation date, and a day-one document checklist. Gulf South focus.
Cerulli projects $124T will transfer by 2048. Here are the five estate-planning triggers that signal a business owner should sell, and when to bring in an M&A co-advisor.
Triggers in Estate Planning: When the Conversation Shifts to Selling Read More »
Your business is worth a range the market sets, not a calculator’s instant number. Use this 10-minute, 5-step self-assessment to estimate a credible value range.
What’s My Business Worth? A 10-Minute Self-Assessment Read More »
Sell-side M&A advisory for Louisiana and Gulf South business owners.
A boutique M&A and exit-planning practice based in Metairie. We represent owners of $1M–$25M revenue businesses, run a structured sell-side process, and deliver business valuations under NACVA Professional Standards.
Serving New Orleans, Metairie, Baton Rouge, the North Shore, Houma–Thibodaux, and South Mississippi.
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