For many majority owners of private companies, selling their business is a once in a lifetime event without “do overs.” They want to secure top dollar when the company is sold, and this post reviews strategies that are geared to help the owner obtain the best sale price for the business. But there are other
More than two centuries before Hamilton became Broadway’s most successful musical, Alexander Hamilton and his nemesis, Aaron Burr (sir), chose to resolve their disputes by dueling at dawn in Weehawken, New Jersey. This fateful duel, as we all know, mortally wounded Hamilton, one of our nation’s
In the final quarter of the year, many private companies will accept new investments that accelerate their growth. But new investments are not guaranteed to create lasting relationships, and that may be the case when new investors join the company. Here, if the majority owner’s relationship with the new investor sours in the future, both