Selling A Business
After investing years and often decades into your business, it’s important to find the right advisor to help you realize the full value of what you have built.
For many sellers, it will represent the largest financial event of their lives. For others it will represent the majority of their retirement savings. Without the right advisor, much of the value you created could be lost.
Ladak Capital offers top-notch expertise from years of experience in private equity and investment banking. Moreover, for business owners who are already consumed with the full-time job of running their business, we offer hands-on assistance in ensuring the right materials are put forward to potential buyers for an optimal sale process.
Selling Process
Our starting point is in fully understanding you and your business. Your business is uni and so are you. Then we work with you to craft an ideal post-sale vision to understand is most important to you. What role would you like to have post-exit? Would you like to receive some income after your exit? How do you want your relationships to your customers, employees, suppliers to look like once you’ve left the business?
1. Understand you and your business
Why are you seeking to sell your business?
What are you looking forward to after your sale?
What motivates you?
Who are you to your family / friends?
Understand your business drivers and differentiators
Identify your opportunities for growth and value creation
Identify key roles in your business
2. Prepare your business for a sale
Create a comprehensive and compelling information memorandum outlining all that buyers need to know to make an optimal offer
3. Reach the Right Buyers
Post a thorough business listing on reputable sites and M&A boards
Identify and reach out to ideal buyers who would get the best value with your business – and give you the best value to you in return (See Bonus items below)
4. Manage Buyer Interest / Communication
Create a data room organizing the most important information about your business in an easy-to-navigate way
Schedule meetings with pre-screened buyers who are qualified, interested, and meet your desired buyer criteria to carry on your legacy
1. Define what success looks like
After value, what are your most important priorities?
What involvement do you wish to have in your business after your sale?
What legacy do you want to leave? What does this look like for your employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders?
5. Review Purchase Offers
Review Letter of Intent (“LOI”), including purchase price, cash or stock purchase, payment terms, transition period, equity roll, assumption of assets / liabilities, any non-compete terms, etc.
Ensure this offer meets your post-sale objectives outlined in your post-sale vision
6. Facilitate Confirmatory Due Diligence
Confirm financial records are valid, review customer and supplier contracts, leases, perform consultative work, etc.
7. Closing
After the LOI is submitted and confirmatory due diligence is complete, closing documents are drafted and the sale is finalized
Our Offering – Seller Process
problems and gives you a sense of confidence.
Current Offering
Main Street businesses do not have the scale to hire investment banks to create
accurate and engaging investment materials
Brokers have upwards of 20 listings at each time making it impossible to understand each business operation or your personal goals
Business listings contain high level summaries that rely on seller work
Sale fees incentivize advisors to sell quickly rather than fully understand your business and suggest value-improving actions
Inadequate upfront diligence creates unnecessary work for sellers as they respond to the numerous, and often identical, buyer questions
Asymmetric knowledge in M&A matters makes sellers vulnerable to advisor pressure
Listings are posted on crowded broker
websites with the hope that the right buyers will see them and respond
A rushed sale process that relies on seller
work prioritizes quick and dirty responses
which leads to inaccuracies and pain
Our Differentiated Offering
private equity expertise and investment
materials at a price you can afford
at each time allowing us to fully
understand your business and goals
best price*
We create concise pertinent materials and act as your first level of defense so you can focus your time on running your business
We can help spearhead the data gathering with checklists, team communication,buyer diligence questions, and more so you can relax and spend more time with your business and family & friends
Guarantee
We are so certain of your satisfaction that we are offering 100% satisfaction money -back guarantee.
Donation
In addition, upon closing of your business sale and receiving commission of your sale, the initially retainer will donated in full to the World Food Programme.
Reach Out To Us
If you have any questions or inquiries regarding our mergers and acquisitions services, reach out to us today. Our team of experts is ready to assist you and provide you with the information you need to make informed decisions about your business.