ASG Services — We Handle the Entire Transaction

When you are selling your business and hire a mergers and acquisitions specialist, what you expectis for the professional you have established a relationship with to do the work. This is not always the case with other business brokerage firms (i.e. your transaction gets passed around, possibly to a less-experienced team member). ASG has many value-added services, allowing you to relax knowing the sale of your business is in good hands.

Overview of Mergers and Acquisitions Services

• Business Pricing and Free Valuations:

  
  ASG will provide you with a FREE valuation range for your business. (Why is it a “valuation range”? For the simple reason that different buyers have different perceptions of price and different abilities to pay. Any intelligent valuation needs to be expressed as a range.) Should the valuation range be acceptable, we will execute a representation agreement and take the buisness to market without putting a price on your company. Why create a ceiling? Instead, we allow the market to determine your business’s value by soliciting multiple offers and negotiating the offering prices to maximize the sale price for you, our client.
  
  

  To make an appointment with one of our business brokers for a free confidential business valuation or to have a discussion about your situation, please call (858) 320-0474 or have an ASG principal contact you.


 


• Discretion:

  
  Discretion and confidentiality are key when marketing your business. When selling your business through ASG, we strongly advise (and assist in ensuring) that your customers, employees and vendors only become aware of the sale of the business the day after the transaction has been successfully completed. See our article, Informing Employees of the Sale of Your Business.

 


• Packaging Your Business for Sale:

  
  At ASG we take the time and effort to really understand your business - where it has been and where it is going - to create a substantial overview of your business to present to potential buyers. ASG makes certain that the possibilities and attributes of your company are detailed in the Confidential Business Review (approved by you) to pique the interest of potential buyers and to increase response and purchase offers.

 


• Locating Qualified Buyers:

  
  In addition to a marketing program customized to your business, our large database of potential buyers helps us secure the best offers for your company. We seek buyers who include individuals and/or companies (both foreign and domestic) with the financial means to offer the highest price for your business.
  
  Depending on the amount of your company's annual revenues, management structure, and the overall industry size, we might also market your firm to our extensive, proprietary directory of private equity firms.

 


• Negotiations with Potential Buyers:

  
  ASG has been in business for almost 30 years, and our high success rate reflects our negotiation skills. You will benefit significantly as our experience can increase the selling price of your business! Doesn’t it make sense to have an experienced professional working on your behalf?



• Handling Multiple Offers:

  
  With ASG's marketing efforts and buyer databases, it is likely there will be multiple offers on your business. With no set asking price, multiple offers drive up the selling price, which is exactly what ASG is looking to do for you. Once buyers are interested, it takes skill and experience to get offers accurately reduced to writing in a format that covers a wide range of peripheral details. This means that initial agreements don't turn into arguments when forgotten details have to be formalized later in the creation of legal documents.