Selling a company is one of the most difficult decisions a business owner can make. The process is complex, takes a ...

Throughout the life of your business, there are many steps you can take to maximize enterprise value. However, it’s during that last six to 12 months of ownership, when navigating the actual sale ...

Mergers and acquisitions happen quite regularly in the corporate world. Reasons for them include two strategic parties coming together to create synergies, a financial sponsor buying an asset for ...

Just over a year ago, Delight Restaurant Group bought 65 Wendy’s restaurants in the Pittsburgh market, bringing its total to about 200. For the group’s managing director, Andrew Krumholz, the decision ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lien De Pau, founder of The Big Exit. Sell your biz for max value. Here’s a hard truth: Most small business owners don’t know what ...

Joan Dentler, president and CEO of Outpatient Strategies and ASC Strategies, discusses the key steps for physician owners when selling part or all of their surgery center to a hospital or corporate ...

Relative valuation—using simple metrics to compare a firm’s value to its peers—is a cornerstone of financial decision-making. If a company earns $2 billion in profit, and if similar firms trade at 15 ...