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3 Things Buyers Worry About When Buying Your Business

M&A activity has declined due to recession fears, the Ukraine War, supply problems and higher interest rates.  This has made deals harder to close and buyers more nervous. All these factors have created pressure on valuations as debt has gotten more expensive and future economic prospects become uncertain. The following are some of the concerns that buyers will have when…

4 Ways to Get Difficult M&A Deals Done

As merger and acquisition activity has started to pick up, this would be a good time to look at some of the techniques that both buyers and sellers can use to get hard deals closed. What makes a deal hard is going to vary, on a case by case basis, but in recent times the COVID-19 pandemic has been one…

6 Things That Go Wrong When Buying a Business

Now that M&A activity has picked up from the worst of the pandemic lows in 2020 more buyers and sellers are looking to do deals.  Buyers can now examine targets through the lens of an economic downturn to see how the business fared. Regardless of COVID-19, buyers seem to think that nothing could go wrong when buying a business.  Overconfidence…

Reverse Mergers, Reverse Takeovers, and Reverse IPO’s

In this weak economy created by the onslaught of the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic, many companies are trying to gain the stability and credibility that is normally associated with the status of a public company but without the costly and timely process of raising funds from the public market through an initial public offering (“IPO”). There are of course other options…