Our Process
Why MBA Growth Partners?
With MBA Growth Partners, we take the guesswork and heavy-lifting off your shoulders. Our confidential, comprehensive, and trusted approach to Business transitions accounts for every detail and intricacy in the sales process. We want you to remain involved and at the center of our partnership, so we strive to simplify the complexities and equip you with the knowledge you need to make the best decisions for your future.
The key to securing you a personalized, high-value deal lies in painting a strong picture of your business to potential buyers.
Our purpose and passion are the same: to help Business owners, like you, navigate the complexities of selling your business so you can secure your personal and financial legacies with confidence.
Whatever your goals may be, our motto remains “Best Price. Best Terms. Best Fit.”, where we strive to help you shape the future you want for yourself and for your business.
Our Team:
Mack Audena
Bola Audena
Maurice Lyles
Selling your business with MBA Growth Partners
With MBA Growth Partners, we take the guesswork and heavy-lifting off your shoulders. Our confidential, comprehensive, and trusted approach to Business transitions accounts for every detail and intricacy in the sales process. We want you to remain involved and at the center of our partnership, so we strive to simplify the complexities and equip you with the knowledge you need to make the best decisions for your future.
The key to securing you a personalized, high-value deal lies in painting a strong picture of your business to potential buyers.
We start with:
- Document and data collection – To gain a deep understanding of your goals
- Current state review of your business operations
- Review of your business Financials
- Determine suitability for sale
MBA Growth Partners works with you to evaluate your offers, negotiate terms, and close successfully. We’ll provide in-depth consultations to help you identify, plan, and prepare your business to enter the corporate market.
MBA Growth Partners Process:
Considering when and how to sell your business can seem overwhelming and daunting. On top of it all, selling your business is the most important financial transaction of your lifetime — every option opens more questions and every possibility requires more decisions.
Our team guides business in corporate business sales. With quality relationships and deep market expertise, MBA Growth Partners helps you navigate every aspect of the transition process to successfully sell your business in the corporate market.
Our team works with you to customize a transition plan that advances your professional and personal goals. We design a plan to secure your personal terms, find the best cultural fit for your business, and negotiate the best price.
Sign the Engagement Letter
The Engagement Letter outlines the partnership between you and MBA Growth Partners. The transition process will kick off once you sign this agreement. Confidentiality is paramount at MBA Growth Partners: your data and our dialogues will remain private, secure, and confidential throughout the engagement.
Assess & Evaluate Your Business
2 TO 5 WEEKS
Every business is different and requires a dedicated analysis to pull information necessary to buyers. Our team will conduct a thorough financial evaluation of your business, including an analysis to benchmark your business’s valuation. After the evaluation, we’ll build a confidential executive summary for potential buyers. This summary highlights the qualitative and quantitative attributes of your business, together with your personal and professional goals.
Initial Data Collection
Our team requests certain financial information that allows us to determine your Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) normalized EBITDA. This figure is a key measure that buyers use to assess your business’s value.
Normalized EBITDA.
After we compile the normalized EBITDA analysis, we’ll present the results, answer any questions, and get your buy-in on the numbers.
Marketing Package.
Through our conversations about your business as well as our market knowledge, our team creates a concise and thoughtful marketing package for buyers. This ‘package’ highlights the upside opportunities and the ‘story’ of your business in a way that buyers will clearly understand.
Identify Potential Buyer
1 TO 1.5 MONTHS
We’ll go to market with your business in a confidential manner. You’ll have the chance to meet and get to know potential buyers: tell your story, learn more about them, and consider what your business would look like if they were sold ownership. We’ll gather proposals (Letters of Intent) from interested buyers on your behalf.
Negotiate & Sign A Letter of Intent
2 TO 4 WEEKS
Upon receiving proposals, we will review the Letters of Intent (LOIs) together. Our team will negotiate terms with buyers on your behalf. Our goal in negotiating is to achieve the best deal that aligns with your personal terms, price point, and your business’s culture for the right “fit”.
LOI to Close: Due Diligence & Legal Document
2 TO 2.5 MONTHS
The last steps in the process can be the most time-consuming, but are crucial to finalize the details and tie your deal together. We’ll provide more business data, negotiate final due diligence of legal documents, and complete closing documentation.
LOI to Close:
As the name implies, buyers send in proposals, or Letters of Intent, that express their interest in and intent to purchase your business. We evaluate the LOIs together.
Transition Planning
1 MONTH
Finally, MBA Growth Partners will help you evaluate tax mitigation strategies, transition planning, real estate sale/lease negotiations, joint venture/private equity options, and more as the sale reaches closing and ownership is transferred.
Closing
Money and ownership are officially transferred!
Business Areas:
- Evaluating Exit Strategies
- Financial Planning Strategies
- Facilitation of Closing Documentation
- Advising on Real Estate Sales
- Lease Negotiations
- Evaluating Profitability and Benchmarking
- Negotiating Employment Agreements
- Evaluation of Private
- Equity Offers
- Analyzing Tax Mitigation Techniques
Education
- Fiscal Illiteracy
- M&A
- Literacy around business