The middle market segment, consisting of companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $1 billion, has emerged as a thriving area of opportunity and growth for business owners and sellers.
For the past 20 years you have built your business. Your company has become part of your identity. Even when you are not at work, you are working, thinking, planning. You never stop. If you sell you are leaving behind much more than a job, or do you have something to sell at all? In this article, we will discuss some signs that might indicate that it is time to exit your business.
You've finally decided to sell the business you worked so hard for so many years to create. Now what? While it may seem straightforward - determine a price, shop it around, collect your payment - the true nature of the transaction is much more detailed and requires considerable expertise and finesse to navigate through the many steps of the process.
Big Pharma isn't the only sector of the life sciences market seeing action. Little Pharma has seen its own flurry of acquisitions lately. What's driving the market? Many factors are at play here, but a rising costs of R&D could be considered a primary factors driving the rush to acquire competition rather than develop from within.
The innovative technology market is flush with M&A activity. This action will continue to accelerate as 2015 progresses with corporate buyers making strategic acquisitions to drive future growth. Many major technology companies, venture capitalists, and private equity firms have cash available and feel the pressure from shareholders and investors to leverage those assets to meet their investment objectives.
If you're a business owners hoping to hold on to a portion of their company, there are options. Recapitalization is a transaction that allows business owners to sell a portion of their company to a private equity group or larger strategic entity.
The decision to sell your company is an important one, and great finesse will be required to make a graceful exit. While many can agree that bringing in legal expertise in an easy decision, it's the selection in an M&A advisor or advisory team that will significantly impact the fluidity of the transaction process.
Retailers rounded out 2014 with strong sales performance and the longest holiday shopping season on record, leaving chief financial officers (CFOs) feeling sunny and optimistic about 2015. Looking forward, those retail leaders expect warmer weather will rebuild sales momentum moving into the spring and summer. They project a 3.9 percent increase in total sales and a 3.7 percent increase in comparable store sales, close to the National Retail Federation (NRF)’s 4.1 percent growth projection for 2015.
Each quarter, Kratos Capital evaluates price multiples on the worldwide realized sales of companies over the last twelve months. General trends of the global M&A market can be read from the shifts in the multiples over time.
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