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Exit Planning Through an Investment Banker’s Lens

Focus Investment Banking

Know the timeline After a sale, buyers often expect you to stay on for one to two years as an employee or consultant. Missing this detail could complicate or kill the deal, delay your plans, or reduce the sale price. Corporate structure Whether youre a C-Corp or S-Corp can affect taxes at sale. This derisks the org.

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How Mike Lampert Grew New England Truck Center Through Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

Mike Lampert: Right now our main focus, I mean we do towing heavy truck repair, we build and sell tow trucks. Chandler Kohn: Are you keeping the same logos on the building or are you rebranding? Even if they have like we go and get them a a good offer, they’re really concerned to make sure that sign stays on the building.

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Trouble in the Solar System: CFIUS Blocks Jupiter Acquisition Five Years After the Fact

JD Supra: Mergers

Build a Morning News Digest: Easy, Custom Content, Free! [Hot Topic] Artificial Intelligence [Hot Topic] Employer Liability Issues Latest IMMIGRATION News & Updates Stay Informed: Popular Reads on JD Supra Meet JD Supras Top Authors! Limited, a Hong Kong company majority-owned by China’s Suirui Group Co.

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Strandberg: How Real Estate Can Unlock Hidden Value

Focus Investment Banking

When most tire dealers begin thinking about selling their business, their focus is often on operations: clean books, strong margins and retaining key technicians. If you hadn’t locked in that lease, the building might be appraised as a general-use commercial property or discounted due to perceived risk.

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Secure Your Business With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall Solutions

Cisco: M&A

Skip to content Cisco Blogs / Security / Secure Your Business With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall Solutions July 3, 2025 1 Comment Security Secure Your Business With Cisco Hybrid Mesh Firewall Solutions 3 min read Renato Morais Technology is advancing faster than ever, and with it comes new challenges for businesses trying to stay secure.

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M&A Blog #19 – valuation (Leveraged Buy Out - LBO)

Francine Way

The major steps of LBO are: Building the Sources and Uses tables. Building a proforma balance sheet. Building a historical 3-statement model and a debt-interest schedule. Building the go-forward 3-statement model. Building the go-forward debt-interest schedule. Modeling the future exit.

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M&A Blog #16 – valuation (Discounted Cash Flow)

Francine Way

Build proforma income statement and balance sheet. An example of this would be to state COGS and SGA as percentages of Sales Revenues, or to state Depreciation Expense as a percent of Plant, Property, and Equipment (PPE). For simplicity, I prefer to state everything but interest income and expense as percentages of sales revenue.