We value and sell privately held businesses.
Cornerstone Business Valuations & Brokerage acts as a Trusted Adviser to owners of privately held businesses. We run confidential sale processes to transition ownership. What sets us apart is the combination of valuation and structuring expertise that gets transactions to the Closing Table. We are also specialists in valuing and selling the underlying commercial real estate in our home markets of Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts.
Cornerstone Business Valuation & Brokerage leverages on our valuation and structuring expertise gained from 25 years of investment banking on Wall Street and 10 years as an M&A professional with the largest business brokerage platform in North America.
TRUST: We are trusted advisors to our Sell-Side Clients
CONFIDENTIALITY: is at the center of our valuation and business brokerage platform. No stakeholder (employees, clients or vendors) should know your business is for sale until Closing Day. Indeed, we have sold businesses where stakeholders remain unaware of an ownership change.
Our Values
VALUATION: of privately held businesses is our differentiating expertise. Valuation is also the foundation of our confidential sale process. The price discovery mechanisms involved in selling privately held businesses don’t produce results from gamesmanship or hype. The asking prices of the businesses we take to market are firm, grounded in data and pre-qualified for SBA acquisition financing.
STRUCTURING: We take our transactional responsibilities to both the Buyer and the Seller seriously. Our clients on the Sell Side understand that their earnings multiple is the inverse of the equity risk rate used to value their business. Asking Buyers to assume huge transition risks only increases equity risk rates and imperils closing probabilities. Transparency, fairness and reciprocity = Maximized value.
RESULTS: Hiring a business broker or M&A expert to transition ownership of your privately held business is one of SEVERAL options to exit a business. We work with our clients to examinine all those options and the relative probabilities of each. Smart owners formulate valuation-based exit strategies years before selling.
Contact us.
Alan Zinser
Cornerstone Business Valuation & Brokerage
43 Sherman Hill Road
Cornerstone Professional Park
Suite D-202
Woodbury CT 06798
Work: 203-405-3723
Cell: 917-456-2143
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