Making sure that an acquisition is kept confidential until the appropriate time is a critical part of the process. A business can be severely damaged if word gets out that the business is for sale ahead of the transaction. Our process prevents that.

Should employees, competitors, customers, or vendors learn that a business is for sale ahead of the transaction it can have severe repercussions. We put in place solid procedures and documents that hold potential buyers strictly responsible before the identity of you or your company is revealed. In addition, we ensure that they can be held legally liable should they divulge any information about your company to anyone that is not authorized to receive it.

We work with you to develop a list of potential qualified buyers. We then contact those buyers on your account and execute the confidentiality agreements before your name is mentioned. This eliminates the possibility that someone will know of the sale just because you placed a call to a potential buyer. We ensure that potential buyers work through us to get the required information and ensure they do not contact you directly or any of your employees.

We also organize the process so that the time between notifying buyers of the sale and the closing of the transaction is kept short, which is important in maintaining confidentiality. Once we are close to the closing we can work with you and the buyer on the best way of notifying employees, customers, and suppliers of the sale to minimize the impact of the sale on the business.