Build the Right Team for Your Transition: M&A Requires Specialists

Selling your business will be the biggest transaction of your life, more important than launching your company or anything that happened in-between. Why? Because not only is your exit the culmination of all of your business decisions, it also sets the foundation for your financial well-being in retirement.

family business, exit strategy, business broker, selling your business, Sabre CapitalTrip HolmesFebruary 4, 2020M&A, M&A specialists, M&A advisors, business broker, transaction attorney, due diligence, middle market family business owner, estate attorneys, CPA, accountants, tax accountant, shape your legacy, control your destiny

Advice for Widows: What to Do When Your Business-Owning Spouse Passes Away

As you can imagine, I’ve seen almost every situation over 35 years when it comes to people needing to sell a middle-market family business. I see new reasons all the time, which certainly keeps this business fresh for me year after year. But a situation I see all too often is that of the surviving spouse when a business owner has passed away.

Planning the Sale of Your Business is Essential

You can sell your business to the first unsolicited buyer if you wish – but if you want to ensure a fair sale, one that yields all the profits you deserve and meets all of your goals, planning on your part is absolutely essential.

exit strategy, selling your businessTrip HolmesJuly 12, 2019Sabre Capital, unsolicited buyer, planning the sale of your business, fair sale, startups, growth stage company, mergers and acquisitions, business broker, accountants, corporate attorneys, acquisition planning, family-owned businesses

Having the Right Partners Is Everything: Business Valuations

There are many reasons to cultivate a partnership ethos in your business, especially when you map those reasons back to meeting the needs of your clients.

strategic partnershipsTrip HolmesNovember 20, 2018business valuation, middle market businesses, business broker, M&A firms, CPA firms, David Amis, Carr Riggs & Ingram, Brumbaugh Appraisers, evaluating machinery and equpment, Sabre Capital, valuation specialists

The Four Key Qualities of a Great Business Broker

When I think about my own 35 years as a business broker, not only in what I’ve accomplished in collaboration with Sabre Capital’s partners and clients, but also in the many other business broker colleagues whom I admire, I see some common denominators of success.

Sabre Capital, business brokerTrip HolmesNovember 6, 2018business broker, Sabre Capital, strategic partner, entrepreneurs, family businesses, client confidentiality, be hungry, be empathetic, be a critical thinker, empathy, family business owners