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Insights to Business Sales and Buying
Have a read below through various articles on business sales, business buying and strategy. Using the “Category List View” may make it easier to find relevant articles of interest.
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When to Sell a Business, an Owners Dillema?

“When to sell a business” is a question often on the mind of business owners. The quick answer from a…

M&A Buy-Side Fees, Risks and Challenges

For M&A Advisors, buy-side representation is inherently more problematic and risky than representing a sell-side client. On the sell-side, an…

M&A Success Fees Explained – (Sell-Side)

In order to maximize transaction value, Middle Market sellers and their M&A advisors know that it is in their mutual…

M&A Intermediary Services Agreement Explained (Sell-Side)

For privately owned middle market companies the sale of a business is often complex, influenced by the type of business,…

Anyone Can Do M&A – Right?

A middle market business owner who chooses to represent himself in the sale of his own business will never know…

Confidentiality and M&A – Managing Information Disclosure

Typical confidentiality stages in an M&A Sale Program are defined by the phase of the sale process. Confidentiality and M&A,…

Confidentiality Agreement and M&A

  Confidentiality is of key importance in deal making and although often considered as a “side-bar” issue, is a foundation…

What is My Business Worth?

  Are you preparing for a business sale? A key question you may ask is “what is my business worth“? The answer, which you probably…

Preparing for a Business Sale – Key Elements

Are you preparing for a business sale? Strategic buyers are sitting with a record amount of cash on their balance…

Normalised EBITDA to Increase Business Sale Value

Preparing Normalised EBITDA financials is a process undertaken in preparation of a business sale to gain a better understanding of post sale cash flows. This…

Teaser Key Requirements – Business Sale Marketing Brief

The first and arguably most important document in marketing a business is the teaser, a one to two page marketing…

NDA Requirements

NDA Minimum Requirements for Mid-Size Business Sales

NDA minimum requirements, non-disclosure agreements, confidentiality agreements or confidentiality deed minimum requirements are widely used in all business sale transactions to protect…

Business Sale “Letter of Intent” – Minimum Requirements

One of the most important documents in the sale of the business is the letter of intent or indicative offer…

Setting Non-Executive Directors Fees

In the first of a series of articles around Governance and the role of the Company Secretary, Rajith Loganathan discusses…

In The Long Term: Economic Reform in Australia

  There are increasing calls for economic reform in Australia, but is this really all that Australia needs? Based on long…

Economic Reform: Are you Ready?

Australia is perhaps at a crossroads in terms of economic reform. This government has set its mandate on encouraging innovation,…

Winning Through Empowerment

Every manager today whether in a SME or Large Enterprise would have a decent understanding of what empowerment is and…

What timekeeping says about your business

Call me old-fashioned and potentially too rigid and disciplined for my own good but I am still a firm believer…

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