Did you recently receive interest in your business? Are you assessing whether now is the right time to sell & retire?
Did you recently receive interest in your business? Are you assessing whether now is the right time to sell & retire?
M&A Advisors and Business Brokers help businesses explore a full sale, partial sale or or acquisition of an another business.
M&A professionals are typically paid on a success basis. This means you pay nothing unless the deal successfully closes.
As a high performing business owner, you may be tempted to navigate a business sale on your own. While certainly possible, it costs nothing to connect with a professional and discuss their offering.
You only get one chance at a first impression. If you start a sale process with scattered investor information and/or messy financials, achieving your target valuation may be difficult.
Let's Do it Right the First Time.
DRFT is a boutique M&A advisory firm led by Chris Mahder.
Chris has 10+ years of experience working in banks and running M&A for corporations, completing 40+ acquisitions (buy & sell-side).
This experience ranges from national industrial businesses worth >$1bn to regional and single location businesses worth $0.5mm to $100mm.
Industries with closed acquisitions include:
We understand what buyers are looking for and will prepare ahead of time.
If you are considering a sale in the next several years, a free consultation with DRFT can help you adequately prepare.
We partner with industrial and commercial businesses above $1mm sales with a high probability of sale. We offer free consultations and high-level valuations to help confirm if there is a potential fit.
Primary focus on businesses in fragmented industries and a highly regarded local brand.
Outreach will be focused on strategic players.
We do not list the business online & hope for inbounds.
70%-80% of businesses listed online never find a buyer.
Many businesses kickoff a sale process, but are underprepared. If you go to market with Quickbooks P&L and a 3 page teaser, you are likely leaving money on the table.
Sadly, most states do not have minimum requirements to be a business broker. Many are capable of creating an online listing, weeding out prospects and hoping for the best. (These brokers still charge the same or more)
If you are going to sign an exclusive agreement, why not choose a partner who cares whether your business sells quickly, understands how your business works, offers reasonable fees, and has done this before.
Contact us for a free consultation. If we agree now is the correct time, we will have a kickoff meeting.
We will gather all information required to draft buyer materials and prepare a dataroom. If we discover items that require cleanup, we will take the time required to fix it before any outreach.
The goal is clean data, a solid narrative, targeted outreach and a buyer with high probability of LOI to close.
Following succesful LOI, we will control diligence expectations and ensure seller time is used wisely.
As we approach close, you will receive help reviewing legal & tax documents and anecdotal commentary, which you then can discuss further with your lawyer / CPA.
Do you know a business considering whether now is the right time to sell?
Contact us below and you may be eligible for a referral fee at Close.
It is hard to replicate doing business in person.
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