
Selling Your Company to a Large Strategic Buyer or Customer
An M&A auction for a small company is often at odds with a large acquirer or customer. Here are a few of the dynamics of a strategic sale and an alternative approach to make it happen.


An M&A auction for a small company is often at odds with a large acquirer or customer. Here are a few of the dynamics of a strategic sale and an alternative approach to make it happen.

Business and financial journalists seem to love stirring the pot when reporting on investments in 100X Club technology companies. Most currently, those in AI. By doing it in an oversimplified manner and in an information vacuum, they make investors sound crazy; like sheep following each other off a cliff. This

The short answer? The last preferred stock investor with the top most liquidation preference is reaping the gains. Here’s why.

I have been frustrated by the false equivalency of public market valuation calculations applied to the last preferred stock financing of a private company. Here is my attempt to make a simple, understandable explanation of why the last private financing doesn’t mean all shareholders own something worth the same as
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Doug is one of the most respected middle market investment banking professionals in the Mid-Atlantic and has actively contributed to the growth of the region’s business community for over 30 years.

Brad spent the majority of his 40-year career with Wall Street firms developing unique expertise in serving the corporate finance needs of emerging growth companies.
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