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Are You Selling Your Company? Be Careful with Financial Buyers!

Scott Edward Walker

The most common financial buyer is a private equity firm. Indeed, big private equity firms (such as Blackstone, TPG, Apollo, etc.) There are also, however, lots of small private equity firms that you never read about and which are on the hunt for small, private companies.

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10 things I wish I knew when I sold my businesses

Jeff Hilimire

I’ve had the fortune to do it twice, once to a private equity company and once to a public company. When selling my first company, we worked so hard on the process of the sale that we inadvertently slacked off on business development (i.e. We felt the pain of that a few months after we closed the sale.