Warning Signs: Is Your Commercial Client Selling the Business?
Your longest-lasting and most loyal banking clients may leave you, and it has nothing to do with your performance. You guessed it – they’re selling their businesses.
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FourBridges Insights & News
Learn what's happening in the world of mergers and acquisitions – from industry updates and market trends to all kinds of tips and how-to's.
The Data has Spoken: The Southeast is a Seller's Market
Dust from the recession has settled and an estimated $400 billion in private equity funds alone are chasing down businesses to buy or invest in.
Telling Your Business’s Story Through Financial Projections
Building a credible ‘story’ is an essential tool for selling or seeking investment funds, and also helps you make quantifiable decisions about your business.
How To Stay In Your Business After You Sell
Some entrepreneurs launch a business to bring their talents to bare, to achieve their dream of serving a specific type of client in a specific way, never considering selling their business, but many are acutely aware that their business may someday be worth selling.
How To Know When It's Time To Sell Your Business
Are there magical signs that point to selling your business?
Don't Believe Dick the Butcher...
In Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy, Dick the Butcher proclaimed “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” (depicted above seizing the Clerk of Chatham)…but the professionals at FourBridges disagree.
Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Selling your Business
No matter what stage your business is in, selling is an option on many minds, but there are major obstacles just waiting to trip you up. One expert shares what exactly those are so you will have the advantage.
Total Building Supplies, Inc. has been sold to Ram Tool Construction Supply
The deal is part of an ongoing consolidation trend in the distribution industry.
Reps and Warranties: What Every Seller Should Know
Representation and warranty insurance is becoming an important tool that helps middle market transactions make it to closing.
TenCate Grass purchases a controlling interest in Challenger Industries
The deal has created the largest landscape turf company in the U.S.
What Your Company is Worth and Why
Many business owners wonder what their company is truly worth in today’s market. And that’s not a bad question to ask, whether you’re making day-to-day operating decisions or considering the future of your company.
5 Tips to Increase Your Business’s Value for Sale
When you are ready to sell your business, several factors will determine its value. Some you can’t control like the economy, but others you can, like the way you run your business.
