Preparing your business for sale means making it transferable and diligence-ready before you go to market. The two timelines, the value drivers buyers actually pay for, and what an objective pre-market valuation reveals.
How to Prepare Your Business for Sale Read More »
With 74% of business owners planning to exit (Gallup, 2024), you often spot the trigger first. Six clear signs it is time to refer a client to an M&A advisor.
What your business is worth depends on why you’re asking. The Calculation vs Valuation Engagement distinction, the NACVA framework, and live 2026 LMM multiples.
Business Valuation: The Complete Owner’s Guide Read More »
Buyers and their lenders size up a facility within minutes of arriving. Deferred maintenance, safety gaps, tired equipment, and shaky lease terms don’t kill deals on their own, but they get priced in as discounts, retrades, or extra escrow. The working rule: fix what’s cheap and visible, disclose what’s structural or expensive, and document everything
Preparing Your Facility for a Potential Sale Read More »
A letter of intent (LOI) sets your business sale’s price, structure, and exclusivity. Learn what’s binding, what to negotiate, and how to limit a re-trade.
What is a Letter of Intent (LOI)? A Seller’s Guide Read More »
The best deal when selling your business isn’t won at the negotiating table. It’s won months earlier, through preparation and buyer competition. Sellers who run a structured process with several bidders set the terms. Sellers who negotiate with one buyer accept them. Single-buyer negotiations sit near the top of the most expensive mistakes owners make
The Secret to Negotiating the Best Deal for Your Business Read More »
Value acceleration is the discipline of growing what your business is worth, not just what it earns. The methodology, the two levers that move value, and a practical 5-year playbook.
What is Value Acceleration? The 5-Year Playbook for Growing What Your Business Is Worth Read More »
Main Street businesses are valued on SDE multiples, the lower middle market on EBITDA. Learn which tier you’re in and what 2025-2026 deal data shows.
Understanding Business Valuation: Main Street vs. Lower Middle Market Read More »
After 15+ years of valuing and selling businesses across the Gulf South, I can tell you that the deals that die rarely die over money. They die because the owner wasn’t ready to let go. Financial readiness gets all the attention. But personal readiness, the emotional side of selling, is what actually decides whether you
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Buyers decide how much to trust your business by how fast you produce clean records. The complete document checklist for selling, organized by category and by when each is needed.
Essential Documentation for Selling Your Business: What Buyers Ask For and When 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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