The financial media wants you to believe the M&A market is dead. Headlines scream about economic uncertainty, rising interest rates, and geopolitical tensions. Meanwhile, buyers just closed $988 billion worth of deals in Q2 alone. Which story should you...
University of Arizona’s esteemed Eller School of Business’s Economic & Business Research Center recently published their 2024 3rd quarter Forecast Update. It goes into details of the Arizona Economy at large and provides insight into the Phoenix & Tucson...
On October 10th Axial’s Q3 2024 issue of “The SMB M&A Pipeline” reported a major increase in M&A activity in Q3 2024. The platform saw 3,075 deals introduced to the market which represents a 30% year over year increase....
The earnout is not a new tool or technique. It is utilized in many M&A transactions wherein one or both of the parties feel the need to mitigate risk. If a buyer believes an attribute of the business is...
Per the Axial.net website “Axial is a private deal network serving professionals who own, advise, and invest in North American lower middle market companies. Axial’s deal-sourcing and deal marketing tools are used to facilitate the discovery and execution of...
Is it the Right Time? The perfect timing to sell your company……is there such a thing? Over the last 25 years we have experienced a few times that were very good times to take our client’s businesses to market....
Mesa, Arizona leads the list for (#1 Nationally) “Top Large Cities” for its robust economic performance as measured by population growth, GDP, employment rates, trade activity, business license applications and other indicators. Phoenix, Arizona is ranked #3 nationally and...
In M&A transactions the purchase agreement will almost certainly contain representations & warranties (R&Ws) made by both parties regardless of the type of purchase agreement utilized, asset purchase agreement, stock purchase agreement or merger agreement. This post by no...
Small business acquisitions grew 10% over the previous year and 3% over the previous quarter, according to BizBuySell’s Insight Data, which tracks and analyzes U.S. business-for-sale transactions and sentiment from business owners, buyers, and brokers. A total of 2,384...
Analyze your company across the following criteria. You may realize that there are some easily achievable changes that will increase your company’s value. Goodwill – Does your company contain “personal goodwill” or “entity goodwill”? Does the goodwill reside with...
Most owners of small to medium size businesses (SMB) use every legal trick in the book to avoid paying a penny more federal and state tax than they absolutely must. You probably know that one of the biggest advantages...
