The process of buying and selling businesses can be a bit frustrating. There are rules and procedures in place that ensure the for-sale status and proprietary information of a business on the market only ends up in the hands of the people it should. Those rules and procedures rely on
Read MoreConfidentiality is a big, big part of business sales. What is confidentiality? When a business is for sale, the only people who should know that it is on the market are the seller, the business brokers and attorneys involved and qualified buyers who have signed the appropriate non-disclosure agreements. That’s it. Most
Read MoreWhen you’re in the business-for-sale market, it can take some creative deal making to put together an agreement that makes everyone involved happy – and sometimes that creative deal making involves an earn-out. What is an earn-out? This type of arrangement is typical when the value of a business to a seller
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