Our Exit Planning Approach
You’ve been there before you turned on the lights for the first time. You envisioned how this business venture would get off the ground and what it might become. You’ve got years of stories about how it went right and how it sometimes went incredibly wrong. You’ve built a great organizational chart w/a dedicated team of capable people, many who’ve made significant contributions to the operation, all of which are a part of your success story.
You’ve planned everything for years. Now it’s time to begin thinking about what’s next. Most business owners don’t want to run their operation forever, but the vast majority of entrepreneurs don’t plan for the inevitable. Nearly 85% of business owners we’ve met over the last 25 years don’t have a well-developed exit strategy and will miss out on maximizing their asset value w/out proper organization and planning.
Collaborative Goal-Setting
Business owners rarely play out the entirety of a business exit prior to making the decision to put their business on the market. We help navigate the emotional ebb and flow of pre-planning exit strategy discussions to protect your family’s investment and livelihood along w/developing a transparent process that can reduce potential internal conflict.
Unique and Detailed Exit Strategies
We’ve developed very specific and customized deal processes in every industry we’ve completed transactions. We don’t offer a cookie cutter assembly line process. Our team creates bespoke processes from valuation, to marketing, to acquisition target identification, to transaction, to close, and beyond. We don’t take shortcuts, we’re diligent and persistent, and our process is transparent from the very start.
What is Exit Planning?
We help navigate the emotional ebb and flow of pre-planning to protect your family’s investment and livelihood along w/developing a transparent process that can reduce potential internal conflict. In addition, planning now for the future to include contingency planning review, tax exposure mitigation, along w/charitable and inheritance giving plans, will provide clear direction while eliminating a number of transactional questions amongst an abundance of unknowns.
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Our Exit Planning Process
Maximizing Business Value
There are a myriad of options to begin the potential business exit strategies discussion. Do we look to bring on a partner to help facilitate growth via majority recapitalization? Do we go public? Do we sell internally, do we bring on additional management to take the majority shareholder(s) out of the daily grind, or do we shut down operations and call it a day? Our team at S&P Capital Partners will take the guesswork out of the conversation and help create foundational solutions to maximize your business value prior to a transaction.
Optimizing Taxes
Taxation and reporting are complicated and time consuming. The sooner you begin having conversations about tax savings, the better. Whether exit planning, pre-determining allocation, maximizing deductions, deferring income, depreciation calculations, taking advantage of business tax credits, etc. proper tax planning is a critical component of a successful business exit strategy. Our team can help navigate this complex and often enigmatic department.
Ease of Transition
Good transactions are built on trust, integrity, respect, and good faith commitment. They’re not easy to close and transition at any dollar amount. Combative relationships generally don’t improve over the course of a transaction and can lead to discord post-closing that adversely impacts business operation. The S&P Capital team works to minimize obstacles and disruption throughout the transaction. The more information we collect and the more preparation we do at the beginning will eliminate a number of potential disruptions throughout the transaction to closing and transition.
Providing Clarity for the Future
With a bespoke exit plan in place, it’s time to focus on business continuity while working w/your deal partners to create and close the transaction. A comprehensive exit plan will eliminate a lot of uncertainty and strengthen your overall position.
Exit-Planning Services We Provide
Collaborative Goal-Setting
We’ll work with you to set reasonable goals for your exit. Our team can help find qualified buyers, transition your management structure, and lay down a solid foundation for your exit.
Business Valuation
“How much is our business worth?” It’s the question we receive more than any other. Business valuation consists of multiple variables linked to an excess of variances. We provide detailed metrics based on your empirical data. In addition, we dig into recent comparable sales along with specific industry metrics that establish a marketable range of value for your business.
Strategic Planning
Long term strategic planning strengthens any organization. Establishing critical positions and highlighting potential vacancies, determining critical skills and future employee performance necessary for business continuity, and focusing on individual and group development to meet future business needs are all components of strategic planning that need immediate and regular attention. It takes foresight and experience to build out a strategic plan. We’ve worked w/businesses at every stage of the business life cycle and understand that although each business’ needs are unique and specific, there are certain foundational standards which we’ve found are universal and we’ll make sure those standards are solidified while we strategize.
Exit Execution
Investment bankers must understand deal mechanics and nuance. You can’t have one without the other. The mechanics are black and white blocking and tackling. Nuance separates the most talented investment bankers from the masses. We understand the emotional ebb and flow this process will create and what obstacles are in our path. We’ll guide you and walk side by side from before the beginning to well after our mission is complete.
Why Choose S&P for Exit Planning?
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is the most critical component of a business sale, and we treat it that way at S&P Capital Partners. We know the value your team, customer base, reputation, goodwill, and historical performance create to make your company the industry titan it is. We manage all transaction aspects w/the strongest confidentiality.
Client-Centric Collaboration
We’re not a good fit for everyone and everyone isn’t a good fit for us. We’ll work immediately to determine if we’re a good fit for your company. If there’s a better option, we’ll tell you who they are. We need to make sure that everyone is on the same page, telling the same story, having the same conversations, and are prepared for every transaction stage.
Customized Approach
We work with companies across a broad range of industries and no two businesses are exactly alike, meaning every exit strategy needs to address bespoke factors unique to the company. Transactions are living, breathing organisms. They change, shift directions, and can surprise you if you’re unsure of next steps. Throughout our process, we’ll work collectively to establish a transaction checklist which begins at offer stage and concludes after a post-closing reconciliation day.
Track Record of Success
Nearly 40 years of combined deal experience led us to develop a structured process designed to efficiently manage your business sale w/minimal stress and worry and maximize the value owed to you and your shareholders. Our confidential marketing along w/our thorough buyer qualification process makes sure that you only meet qualified prospective buyers. Rest assured that when we’re prepared to make a buyer introduction, we’ve done our homework.
Going into this process we had no idea what all was involved, however, I cannot recall a single problem. I am sure this was due to the professionalism of you and your staff. We would be happy to recommend your services to anyone buying or selling a business.
Business Owner at Light Manufacturing Business
Est. 1904 – Sold to Strategic Company
Industries We Serve
S&P Capital Partners service business owners across the U.S. in a broad array of industries. Our clients work in healthcare, industrial services, business services, consumer-based operations, manufacturing, and food and beverage verticals, among others.
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