Selling Your Business

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Waterview specializes in sell-side M&A advisory services for middle-market companies (generally $10 to $250 million in revenue).  We have a  well-documented history of transactional success and outstanding capabilities that generate premium value for our clients. We  believe the best measure of value in our services is our performance. 

Waterview identifies available liquidity alternatives for owners and actively pursues the most appropriate and attractive strategy. The best alternative may be in the form of  a sale to a strategic / synergistic buyer or a transaction structured as a private equity-sponsored leveraged recapitalization.  We facilitate the following liquidity events:

• Strategic Sales
• Private Equity Sponsored Leverage Recapitalizations
• Management Buyouts
• Divestitures / Spinoffs

The  key to maximizing value for existing shareholders is to create an efficient market for the sale of  the company.  We accomplish this by creating interest and competition among an appropriate group of prospective  buyers and creating a sense of urgency to complete the transaction. Waterview’s Competitive Sale Process™ is based on the Four C’s  for completing successful transactions: 

• Confidentiality
• Comprehensive Market Coverage
• Competition Among Buyers
• Control of the Process

Generally speaking, the liquidity options available to any business owner looking to sell their business fall into four basic transaction types: 

Sale or Merger; 

Recapitalization; 

Employee Stock Ownership Plan; and 

Initial Public Offering.