Business Owners 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…
Advisors 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…
Business Owners 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…
Business Owners 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…
Advisors 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…
Business Owners EBITDA Adjustments From Crazytown At least once a week, we find ourselves looking through adjustments made to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization…
Advisors 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.…
Business Owners 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…
Business Owners How Using Adjusted EBITDA Can Make Your Business More Attractive to Buyers Getting a better valuation is one of the most important considerations when selling a business. Using an adjusted EBITDA calculation…
