Business Owners Free eBook: The CEO’s Guide to Maximizing Company Valuation in 2016 You’ve worked hard to build your business. Determining what your business is worth, to whom, and why is one of…
PE Basics Every Selling CEO Should Know Thinking of selling your business? If you’re considering financial buyers — firms and executives who make investments on companies in…
3 Overlooked Issues in M&A and How to Solve Them It looks like 2016 is going to be a very strong year for M&A deal volume overall. This isn’t so…
What’s Your Number? One Metric That Could Make or Break Your Business Here is a question for corporate finance executives seeking either growth capital or ownership transition: Do you know your EBITDA…
Questions Investors Ask on a Management Call — and Conclusions They Draw When we are interested in an opportunity, we build two lists of questions: one data-specific list for written response and…
When Deal Negotiation Fails: 4 Mega-Deals That Weren’t No one likes to sink time, energy, and money into deals that aren’t going to pan out. For every successful…
EBITDA Adjustments From Crazytown At least once a week, we find ourselves looking through adjustments made to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization…
Why You Need an IT Professional on Your M&A Deal Team Traditional M&A deal teams run the risk of missing substantive issues that could impact deal structure, terms, and integration success.…
When EBITDA Is Just a Number: The Limitations of EBITDA Experts agree that EBITDA has limitations and should be taken in the context of other factors in the transaction. Buyers…
