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The Art of the Deal: Finding the Right Buyer & Understanding Your Business’s Value With Bradley Smith

The Art of the Deal: Finding the Right Buyer & Understanding Your Business’s Value With Bradley Smith

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Are you prepared to navigate the complexities of an unsolicited buyout offer?

In this episode, Bradley Smith, Managing Director and Partner of VERTESS, dives deep into the intriguing world of business sales and acquisitions and covers nuanced strategies that could ensure your business fetches its utmost value when receiving buyout offers. Brad explores how to navigate these offers, the importance of finding the right buyer, and strategies to ensure you get the best value for your business. Whether you’re a family business owner, healthcare professional, or entrepreneur, you’ll gain insights into maximizing the value of your business, amid the complexities of the market.

Brad discusses: 

  • The significance of finding the right buyer over just any buyer for your business
  • How to identify the right buyer for your business
  • The impact of private equity in the current market on selling a business
  • How business owners can maximize valuation and avoid common mistakes
  • What a typical deal structure looks like
  • How to mitigate the disadvantages business owners face during the due diligence process.
  • And more

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Meet Bradley M. Smith of VERTESS Healthcare M&A Advisory Firm. For over 20 years Bradley has held a number of significant executive positions including founding Lone Star Scooters, which offered medical equipment and franchise opportunities across the country, Lone Star Bio Medical, a diversified DME, pharmacy, health IT and home health care company, and BMS Consulting, where he has provided strategic analysis and M+A intermediary services to executives in the healthcare industry. In addition, Bradley is a regular columnist for HomeCare magazine and HME News, where he focuses on healthcare marketplace trends and innovative business strategies for the principals of healthcare companies. At VERTESS, Bradley is a Managing Director and Partner with considerable expertise in Private Equity Recapitalizations, HME/DME, Home Health Care, Hospice, Medical Devices, Health IT/Digital Health, Lab Services and related healthcare verticals in with US and internationally.

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From Listing to Closing: How to Sell Your Business Efficiently With Max Friar

From Listing to Closing: How to Sell Your Business Efficiently With Max Friar

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Every business owner needs to exit their business eventually. So, what does that process look like, and how can it be carried out efficiently?

Today on MCM Wealth, Max Friar, Managing Partner at Calder Capital, LLC, discusses the intricacies of selling a business. Max goes into the strategies of creating a market for business sales, the challenges owners face, such as overvaluation, and the importance of understanding their motives. He also outlines Calder Capital’s role in vetting potential buyers and steering transactions to a successful close, offering a glimpse into the complexities of the business selling process.

Max discusses: 

  • The process of making a market for selling a business
  • Services offered by Calder Capital
  • Challenges faced when working with business owners looking to sell their business
  • The critical period in moving a mergers and acquisition transaction to a close
  • And more

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Max Friar, Managing Partner at Calder Capital, LLC,  has been working in mergers and acquisitions since 2005, beginning his career as the Director of Marketing for a Midwest mergers and acquisitions firm where he quickly fell in love with the fast-paced and challenging world of business transactions. He founded Calder Capital, LLC in 2013 and is presently its Managing Partner/CEO. Max has a passion for entrepreneurship, technology, psychology, process improvement, and growth. Beyond starting and owning businesses, Max also has personal experience in investing in, buying, and selling closely held businesses. He brings energy, focus, creativity, and a unique ability to create order out of chaos. Max is a summa cum laude graduate of Alma College (2003) where he majored in International Relations and became the college’s first Fulbright Scholar. Max has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work in M&A including Dealmaker of the Year Finalist (2018), Grand Rapids Top 200 Business Leaders (2019 – 2023), and the Grand Rapids Business Journal’s 40 under 40 Business Leaders (2020). Max has been recognized by the Business Brokerage Press as a Manufacturing Industry Expert since 2020

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Exit Strategies For Your Business With MCM Wealth

Exit Strategies For Your Business With MCM Wealth

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Are you planning to sell your business, but don’t know where to start? MCM Wealth can help!

In this episode, Geoff Hakim, CEO of MCM Wealth, discusses the challenges business owners face when planning to sell their companies. He details MCM Wealth’s comprehensive exit strategy program, which includes a team of specialty partners to guide owners through the sale process, from discovery to deal documentation. The program also addresses tax mitigation and offers CEO coaching. Geoff highlights the importance of early estate planning and MCM Wealth’s turnkey approach which saves business owners time and stress in the sale process. 

Geoff discusses: 

  • What hurdles business owners face when selling their businesses
  • Components of MCM’s business exiting package
  • Difference between succession planning and exit planning
  • Importance of early estate planning
  • The selection process for experts in MCM’s turnkey approach
  • When to plan to sell your business and how long to expect the sale process to take
  • And more

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A Guide To Selling Your Business with Jim Cascino

A Guide To Selling Your Business with Jim Cascino

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What does the process of selling your business look like?

In this episode, Jim Casino, founder and CEO of C-Suite Advisors talks about the process of selling a business and the importance of having realistic expectations. He discusses the need for clean financials and why every business owner needs to assemble a strong advisory team of service providers such as investment bankers, brokers, M&A attorneys, and CPAs. 

Discover what it takes to sell your business as Jim details:

  • Why business owners hire C-Suite Advisors to help with selling their business
  • The type of professionals business owners may need to lean on during the sale
  • The differences between selling to management versus selling to an outside firm
  • What internal resources are necessary to be on the deal team
  • What pushes deals across the finish line to closing
  • And more

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Jim Cascino founded C-Suite Advisors because he’s passionate about business, and finds great joy in helping CEOs, senior executives, and their companies achieve full potential. He helps leaders focus on what’s most important, make better, faster decisions, and accelerate their growth. He has decades of personal experience in the C-suite to draw upon, which allows him to deliver superior advisory and guidance to driven, high-powered CEOs. Over the course of his successful career, Jim has been the CEO of 10 private and public companies, and three non-profits. Additionally, he has been President of a management consultancy specializing in turnarounds and crisis management. He has served as Chairman or Director on 12 boards and had committee leadership in Executive, Governance, Finance, Long Range Planning, Compensation, and Merger and Acquisition committees. He has also driven and participated in 15 M&A transactions (6 Buy/9 Sell). Jim’s leadership style is positive, strategic, Socratic, and results-oriented. He takes pride in helping leaders find success, regardless of the challenges they face. When it comes to give-back and other interests, Jim is an active mentor to high-tech and life science start-ups through the Arizona Commerce Authority, has worked with orphans in Africa helping create sustainable support systems, led a global medical non-profit, fundraised professionally for a White House peace initiative, and continues to work in animal rescue. He is additionally a winning competitive sailor and served as Commodore of St. Francis Yacht Club.