Selling a Business

KD-Partners specializes in helping owners divest/sell small and mid-size businesses. Typically, we represent sellers with revenues between $3,000,000 and $50,000,000 in Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, Healthcare and Professional Service firms who perform Business to Business and Business to Consumer services to their clients.

Specifically, we commit to the following when we engage to sell your business:

  • Confidentiality-Market and sell your business while maintaining strict confidentially

  • Maximize the value of your business- Provide a professional valuation and guidance on how to best position your business for maximum value

  • Screen and qualify many buyers before any meaningful discussions with you

  • Negotiate on your behalf

  • Shepherd the details of financing, due diligence and closing the sale


Mergers & Acquisitions

A strategic buyer is a type of acquirer who is in the same industry/business as the target company. Unlike a financial buyer, a strategic buyer looks for businesses that can be quickly integrated with its main operations.

We assist sellers with the entire sale process, from preparation to execution and closing. In the initial phase we conduct preliminary business due diligence, assess valuation, create a marketing strategy and related marketing materials, and select and prioritize prospective buyers. We market the firm with strict confidentiality, creating an auction environment to optimize value in bids, maximize negotiating leverage, and preserve process flexibility. We facilitate the buyer/lender due diligence, and manage all elements of the sale process. During the final negotiations and closing, we negotiate the definitive agreement, collaborate with your legal and accounting professionals, facilitate the final due diligence, and guide you to a satisfactory closing.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

A Track Record of Success

KD-Partners has a proven and successful process for selling small and mid-market businesses leverages a multitude of advantages:

  • We collectively have over 70 years of related transaction experience

  • Proven, successful processes, developed to achieve professional objectives

  • Deep and lasting relationships with enterprise stakeholders, strategic investors, capital sources, and a network of intermediaries in law, accounting, consulting & wealth advisory services

  • Knowledge with local markets with deep personal connections to key industry players

  • Databases that are integrated with buyers, investors, industry experts and economic data

  • Capabilities that include direct mail solicitation and when required, and availability of buyer targeted data bases

 
 
 

Our Process

  • Analyze your business and prepare a valuation

  • Work with you to prepare a marketing plan/strategy

  • Develop and publish a confidential fact sheet or “ teaser” to introduce the company to buyer targets.

  • Prepared Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) for acceptance

  • Identify and solicit strategic buyer prospects

  • Crafting a comprehensive Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM) with relevant company data to present to qualified buyers

  • Circulating the CIM to pre-qualified prospects who have expressed interest/executed the NDA

  • Coordinating conference calls, on-site visits with strongest prospects

  • Assisting with Letters of Intent (LOI) submissions, Purchase & Sale Agreements for legal review

  • Guide and facilitate buyer due-diligence review of all documentation housed in KD-Partners secure data-room

  • Assist with post-closing adjustments and integration efforts