How Much Is Your Business Worth?: A Step-By-Step Guide to Selling and Ensuring the Maximum Sale Value of Your Business - Hardcover

Lipman, Frederick D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076150432X ISBN 13: 9780761504320

Publisher: Prima Pub, 1996

Synopsis

For anyone selling or contemplating selling a business, this book is essential. Corporate attorney Frederick Lipman has written a comprehensive guide that covers everything from understanding your motives to closing the sale. This step-by-step approach guides you through the pre-planning stage, and shows you how to maximize the sale price of your business. With this book, you?ll be aware of the potential pitfalls as well as the opportunities to enhance the value of your business.

Clearly written and well organized, the book includes chapters on:
• eliminating ?deal killers?
• protecting your business
• marketing your business
• avoiding negotiation traps
• surviving the buyer?s due diligence
• avoiding traps in the agreement of sale

In addition, Lipman encourages readers to explore all of their options when considering selling a business. Some of the alternatives covered are leveraged recapitalization and going public.

About the Author

Frederick D. Lipman is the author of Going Public, Venture Capital and Junk Bond Financing, and Audit Committees. A graduate of Harvard Law School with more than thirty years of experience, he has handled sales and mergers totaling in excess of a billion dollars. He is currently a partner of the Philadelphia law firm of Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley.

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About the Author

Frederick D. Lipman lectures on private equity in the MBA Program at the Wharton School of Business and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for ten years. The author of numerous books, including Financing Your Business with Venture Capital, The Complete Going Public Handbook, and Audit Committees, and a commentator on selling businesses and initial public offerings (IPOs) for CNN and CNBC, he has guided companies through the sale and IPO process for more than 40 years. Mr. Lipman is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a partner of the nationally prominent Philadelphia law firm of Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley LLP, which has offices in New York, Connecticut, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Florida.

From the Back Cover

elling or contemplating selling a business, this book is essential. Corporate attorney Frederick Lipman has written a comprehensive guide that covers everything from understanding your motives to closing the sale. This step-by-step approach guides you through the pre-planning stage, and shows you how to maximize the sale price of your business. With this book, you?ll be aware of the potential pitfalls as well as the opportunities to enhance the value of your business.

Clearly written and well organized, the book includes chapters on:
• eliminating ?deal killers?
• protecting your business
• marketing your business
• avoiding negotiation traps
• surviving the buyer?s due diligence
• avoiding traps in the agreement of sale

In addition, Lipman encourages readers to explore all of their options when considering selling a business. Some of the alternatives covered are leveraged recapitalization and going publi

From the Inside Flap

elling or contemplating selling a business, this book is essential. Corporate attorney Frederick Lipman has written a comprehensive guide that covers everything from understanding your motives to closing the sale. This step-by-step approach guides you through the pre-planning stage, and shows you how to maximize the sale price of your business. With this book, you?ll be aware of the potential pitfalls as well as the opportunities to enhance the value of your business.<br><br>Clearly written and well organized, the book includes chapters on:<br>• eliminating ?deal killers?<br>• protecting your business<br>• marketing your business<br>• avoiding negotiation traps<br>• surviving the buyer?s due diligence<br>• avoiding traps in the agreement of sale<br><br>In addition, Lipman encourages readers to explore all of their options when considering selling a business. Some of the alternatives covered are leveraged recapitalization and going publi

Edition details

• Publisher: Prima Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076150432X
• ISBN 13: 9780761504320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 302