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A recent article posted on Business2Community.com entitled “How to Close the Deal and When to Walk Away When Buying or Selling a Business” explains the business sale process and how to differentiate between a good deal and a bad deal during the process. Closing a deal involves quite a bit of legwork, including producing a letter of intent, doing due diligence, acquiring financing, signing a purchase agreement, and actually closing the deal. These items can be easier with the help

  Net Working Capital And How to Keep More of it in a Transaction.In theory all assets necessary to produce the revenue and earnings of your company needs to be passed to the buyer at close – and that includes an “operating level” of net working capital.  It is, in my opinion, extremely important to know how this works before entering into a transaction.  And if you realize how it works a year or two before a transaction, you can often tighten

  Selling the shares you hold in a company vs. selling the assets out from the under the company can make a big difference in taxes, who assumes certain liabilities and what happens to certain contracts. There are challenges with each, such as the assignment of customer agreements with an asset sale, and change of control clauses in stock sales.   We’ve known Ney Grant, an M&A Advisor on the west coast, for many years and he has recently released