Fair Price for Business Acquisition
How to determine a fair price for a business acquisition: SDE/EBITDA multiples by industry, DCF for $10M+ deals, comparable transactions, and how to bid below ask without losing the deal in 2026.
Business Acquisition DD Process
Business acquisition due diligence process: the 60-90 day, six-workstream playbook buyers use post-LOI. Legal, financial QoE, commercial, operational, HR, IT, environmental — with realistic costs and timelines.
How to Evaluate a Business for Acquisition
How to evaluate a small business for acquisition: the week-1 framework buyers use to screen deals before LOI. Financials, customer concentration, key-person risk, market position, and 14 red flags.
How to Source Acquisition Deals
How to source business acquisition deals in 2026: five proven sourcing channels, real outreach metrics, pipeline math, and the off-market deal flow strategy that gets independent sponsors and search funders to close.
2026 Plumbing PE Roll-Up Tracker
Compiled tracker of 13 active U.S. plumbing private equity roll-up platforms, verified 2024-2026 acquisitions, multiples, and what it means for plumbing owners.
Sell or Pass to Children?
Sell business or pass to children: family transfer vs market sale, after-tax math, gift exemption, installment sale, GRAT structures — and the ‘sell-then-gift’ alternative.
When Is It Time to Sell?
How to know when it’s time to sell my business: 5 internal signals + 5 external signals + market timing. The 5-year framework owners use to decide before they’re forced to.
Recap vs Full Sale
Recapitalization vs full sale of business: how recap mechanics work, the after-tax math on chips-off vs full exit, who buys recaps, and when each path wins for LMM owners.
Partial Sale of a Business
Partial sale of business explained: minority recap, majority recap with rollover, SBIC structures — when and why owners take chips off without giving up the business.