Are you wondering whether the time is right to explore a sale?
You may be looking at your strategic options to accelerate the growth of your company. Maybe you would like to achieve a liquidity event and take some chips off the table but aren't ready to fully exit yet. You may have recognized there is a wave of M&A currently in your market and wondering if you are in an optimal position to take advantage of the increased activity. Perhaps you are thinking about retiring. Or maybe you've been approached by one or several buyers and want help negotiating and managing the conversations.
Our advisors have helped hundreds of software and technology companies to work through these decisions. The majority of the work we do is providing sell-side advisory services to clients.
Many of our conversations with prospective clients begin with coaching on how to best prepare their company for a sale in order to achieve maximum value. We often start working with companies many months or years in advance of any M&A event.
Our advisors look at a wide range of internal and external variables surrounding your software, technology, or IT services business and help you to position the company for an exit that meets your goals. Some of these factors include a review of current market conditions, and personal goals and objectives, as well as a review of valuation expectations, deal structure, and your management and employee concerns.
A key factor in driving the best offer is creating a competitive environment where multiple interested and qualified buyers are participating. Without more than one potential buyer there is no leverage and little to compel a lone buyer to increase their initial offer as much as they might with other buyers at the table. Without competing offers, you have no comparison and no way to know if the offer you receive is the best offer you could get. Or if this is even the best buyer.
Our team will guide you through every aspect of the selling process and provide coaching through each step. We combine our network of contacts, a global database, and market knowledge, with strategic marketing tactics to achieve sufficient market coverage to drive numerous offers. As creative and experienced negotiators, we help to maximize outcomes and are also able to function effectively as a buffer between buyers and sellers when negotiations get strained.
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