Services:

Integrated Business Ventures assists business owners with significant transitions:

Confidential Sale of Your Business

With over 125 successful middle market transactions completed in the past 27 years, we pride ourselves in the ability to reduce what can be a very complex and frustrating process of selling a business into one which expeditiously meets our clients' goals and objectives, combining disciplined process integrity with creativity, alternatives, deal momentum, and a sense of mutually beneficial outcome for all parties.

Our success rate of over 90% is a result of carefully screening prospective clients to ensure alignment of values as well as a mutual commitment to a productive business relationship.

Critical to our success is our ability to define and identify prospective buyers for your business, and confidentially and discreetly contact them to determine their level of interest without disclosing your business’s identity.

Confidential Business Acquisitions

We also represent corporate buyers who seek assistance and advice in making strategic acquisitions. We have the ability to identify and contact potential acquisition candidates anywhere in the world. We dialogue confidentially with candidates, qualify, initiate next steps in initial due diligence, and when appropriate, remain involved, coordinating communications through the entire business transaction.

Corporate Renewal, Business Turnarounds, and Workouts

We possess, as an organization, unique skills and experiences that enable us to help companies that are in need of systems and procedures to increase their effectiveness and profitability. Our areas of expertise include financial structuring, strategic financial management, and marketing and sales planning and effectiveness.

We choose to work with privately-held companies whose owners are personally invested in making changes that not only repair the business for financial reasons, but who also wish to implement sustainable changes to create an organization that better serves its employees, its customers, and its community.

In circumstances when we are approached too late to accomplish a successful turnaround, we have extensive experience in selling companies in distress at a best price to strategic buyers – instead of the business owner resorting to bankruptcy or closing the business.

Business Growth Plans and Implementation

We provide a unique suite of services to enhance a business owner's executive skill set in order to maximize his or her ability to grow the business prudently. While most owners of privately-held businesses enter the marketplace because of their knowledge and passion for their products and services, it is rare that they have an equally strong financial and sales/marketing acumen.

We enjoy providing and implementing creative solutions to enhance business value and owner equity. We do this by assisting our clients, with financial and/or sales and marketing expertise, in developing and implementing strategies and tactics to increase the top line, while mentoring them to effectively manage the bottom line - to ultimately increase profitability and long-term value.

Business Valuations

We provide business valuation services for our clients, as well as for lending institutions. As we screen acquisition candidates for seller and buyer clients alike, our hands-on experience provides an expertise in determining an accurate price range for a company's fair market value.

Investment Banking Services

We work with a large number of institutional funding sources including banks, private equity groups, venture capital firms and other institutions that provide capital for acquisition, operations, or expansion needs. We also can conduct a confidential customized search for the source of capital most appropriate for your particular needs.

Our Engagement Process

Entering into a business relationship is a marriage of sorts, and we take the courtship very seriously!

Once we mutually decide to explore your desired transition, we prefer to meet at your business location.

Typically the objective of this first meeting is to find out if there is a "chemistry" between us. We are as interested in learning about your desired life path, your values, and the energetic atmosphere of your facility, as in looking at your financials.

Likewise, you must decide whether we, both personally and professionally, are a fit as an advisory team to assist in your transition.

If we decide to work together, then, in the next few meetings we collect information to conduct a thorough assessment of issues and options intrinsic to the assignment.

We will look at the various business functions: management, financial, operations, and sales and marketing, to understand the company's strengths and challenges.

The mechanics of our engagement include a simple agreement regarding the scope of work and expected outcomes. We like our clients to be equally committed to the project's success - whether it involves selling the business or implementing a growth plan - by trading our expertise and outsourced managerial skills for a mutually agreed upon retainer-based fee structure.

When we are engaged in a mergers and acquisitions project, our up-front fees may be credited against the commission paid when the deal closes.