Sell your business for what it’s actually worth.
Confidential representation for Chicago-area owners ready to move — from valuation through closing, with your employees, customers and competitors none the wiser until you decide otherwise.
What makes this different
Selling a business isn’t like selling a house.
There’s no listing service, no open house, no sign in the window. The moment word gets out that you’re selling, the business itself starts to change — and not in your favour.
You can’t advertise it openly
Employees update their CVs. Customers take calls from competitors. Competitors start recruiting your people. The sale has to happen quietly or it damages the thing being sold.
Most inquiries can’t close
The majority of people who ask about a business for sale have neither the capital nor the intent to complete. Sorting them out is most of the work.
Terms matter as much as price
Two offers at the same number can be worth very different amounts once structure, earn-outs and contingencies are accounted for.
The process
Four steps, and you know where you stand at each one.
Free Valuation
What the business is worth today, and what would change that number. No cost, no obligation, and no commitment to sell at the end of it.
Confidential Marketing
We package and position the business, then take it to market as a blind profile — industry, region and financial range only. Nothing that identifies you.
Buyer Screening
Financial capacity verified and NDAs signed before anyone reaches you. You spend your time with buyers who can actually complete.
Negotiate & Close
Structure, diligence, financing and transition. More deals collapse in diligence than in negotiation — this is the stage representation earns itself.
The thing most owners ask first
Nobody finds out until you decide they do.
Your business goes to market blind. Buyers see the industry, the region and a financial range. They do not see your name, your address, or anything that would let them work it out.
An NDA comes before anything identifying. No exceptions, including for buyers we already know.
Buyers are screened before they reach you. Capacity and intent are verified first, so you’re not disclosing to people who were never going to buy.
You control the timing of every disclosure. When employees, customers and suppliers find out is your call, not the market’s.
Fees
You pay nothing until it sells.
Our fee is success-based. It’s paid at closing, out of the proceeds of the sale — so there’s no cost to list, no monthly retainer, and nothing owed if the business doesn’t sell.
The specifics depend on the size and complexity of the transaction, and we’ll walk you through exactly how it works on the first call — before you commit to anything.
The best time to talk to a broker
is before you need one.
Confidential, no cost, no obligation.