Getting Bang for Your Buck: Spend Your 2025 Privacy Budget Wisely
AdvisorEsq Podcast Series - Episode 10 - Planning Ahead: The Valuation Equation
Business Succession Planning Podcast with Janathan Allen
Physician Practice Mergers and Acquisitions – Trends in the Health Care Industry
Assessing The Value Of Early-Stage PE Investments
M&A in the Cannabis Sector
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode Four: The Financialization of Agriculture with David Muth from Alternative Equity Advisors
Strategic Growth Paths of Top Small Business Government Contractors
Tips for Dentists Starting or Acquiring a Dental Practice
How to prepare for a merger and acquisition in logistics and transportation
Exit Strategies for GOVCONs with Set Aside Contracts: 2021 Insights and Lessons Learned from Business Owners and Advisors
An Overview of Private Equity Firm Acquisitions of Medical Practices
Ten Talks: New Pathways for Companies Looking for Capital
Why Corporate Housekeeping and Due Diligence are Serious Business for Businesses
Episode 015: Confessions of a Business Appraiser: A Conversation with Chris Mercer
Episode 1: Chris Mercer Interview on Marketability Discount: Part 1
Episode 2: Chris Mercer Interview on Marketability Discount: Part 2
Episode 10: The Marketability Discount Revisited: Interview with Greg Barber
Episode 11: Mediating Business Valuation Disputes: Conversation with Arthur Rosenbloom
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With an active mergers and acquisitions market, you may have decided that now is the right time to sell your business. Although it is an exciting endeavor, preparing to sell is a process that begins long before your company...more
The advisory industry has been trending towards high valuations. Are those likely to stick around? Jeff Nash, CEO and Co-Founder of Bridgemark Strategies, answers that and more during this conversation, the first in a...more
To help businesses, investors, and deal professionals better understand the evolving private equity landscape in the lower middle market, Robert Connolly – a partner in and leader of LP’s Corporate Practice Group – shares a...more
In the latest episode of the Resilience podcast, colleague and host Shellka Arora-Cox sits down with Kevin Yaich, head of M&A at Qcells USA, for a discussion of the current solar M&A landscape....more
There are several steps to follow when preparing to sell your business. It is important to allow plenty of time for planning and organization, as the process will usually require many months to a year or more. Why does it...more
When divorcing couples hold ownership interests in private companies as part of their marital estate, they will have to address a number of business issues related to these interests in their divorce settlement. Planning...more
Jeff Faulkner, co-founder of the International Succession Planning Association, speaks about the challenges that arise when transferring ownership of a business to the next generation. In the video, he points out the...more
Who is the Better Planner for Your Affairs: You or the State? Planning for the succession of a closely held business is a lot like making a will. An individual has the opportunity to make a will that directs how the...more
Once the business owner is ready to sell the business, there will be considerable time and energy focused on that goal. The client may engage an investment banker or business broker to assist in the sale, along with dedicated...more
Once a business owner has an understanding of the value of the business and the tax and cash flow impacts of the transfer, the next step is to document the transfer. This may be done by the client’s separate business legal...more
The value of an asset at the time of a transfer is the key component to the United States’ transfer tax system. Gratuitous transfers during lifetime are considered gifts, while transfers as a result of the death of the owner...more
After devoting long hours and years of hard work in building their companies, majority owners of private businesses may reach a point where they consider whether it is time for them to sell. This large question – Is now the...more
Marital divorces are often difficult under the best of circumstances, but tensions may be even higher when the marital estate includes substantial interests the married couple own jointly in private companies, which they are...more
We accept that beauty is in eye of the beholder but determining what a private company is worth should be much more objective. Yet, for a business owner who is considering a sale of the company, it may come as a surprise that...more
Allen Barron's podcast on Business Succession Planning focuses on one of the most important part of protecting an owner, member, partner, shareholder or investor in any company, and yet less than one in four businesses have a...more
Over the past three seasons, fans of the hit HBO series Succession have had an entrée into the fabulous lifestyles enjoyed by members of the Roy family and a front-row seat from which to observe the myriad succession...more
Counting the Days?- We are 302 days away from the national mid-term elections, to be held November 8, 2022, yet the first full week of the new year has already highlighted some of the economic issues with which the...more
Historically, buyers in M&A transactions have discounted the value of a government contractor with significant revenue from small business set-aside contracts, including contracts for service-disabled veteran-owned, 8(a),...more
For any founder, whether a first-timer or a serial entrepreneur, it’s an exciting moment when you receive a term sheet from a venture capital fund for your company’s first preferred stock financing round. Excitement aside,...more
The strong pace of craft brewery acquisitions seen in recent years will likely reverse course in 2020 due to the economic challenges and uncertainty caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But despite the impact of...more
This article is directed to Baby Boomer business owners (BBBOs) who are feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of having to reset their transition plans. Many of us who are active in the business transition planning space have...more
In the midst of a global Pandemic that is devastating to the health of our community and to our economy, the last thing on the minds of private business owners may be the future sale of their company. But while business...more
In the past few years promissory notes and SAFEs have become an increasingly popular way to fund early-stage companies. Fenwick completes hundreds of these types of financings for its clients each year and we recently...more