International Business Associates (IBA): Our Services

For The Business Owner:
We join with you to make a team that will help you in making decisions on when and how to sell your business, the price and terms, the type of buyer to target and how we can work with you to achieve your aims.

(1) Appraisals

Certified Business Appraisers and Certified Valuation Analysts are available on our staff

(2) Exit Strategies:

Advice on how to structure your business to make it more attractive to buyers.
Advice on how to make your business attractive to financial institutions who lend to buyers.
Solutions for tax issues that you may confront.
When and how to start.

(3) The Sales Cycle:

Calculate the offering price and terms that we anticipate your business will command in the current market and in your specific industry.
Market your business to prospective purchasers, working closely with you to present an attractive description of the business and tell the story you want told about your business.
Carefully maintain both confidentiality and our responsibility to you as your agent.
Negotiate the sale according to your directions.
Facilitate due diligence and document preparation

For Business Buyers:
In most cases, we are the agent of a business owner offering the business for sale. However, we also offer you, as a prospective business buyer, the services necessary to find the business that you desire, the information you need to make a reasoned offer and assistance in making an offer.

(1) In A Search:

Assist in preparation of an attractive presentation of your personal and financial information that will be available to sellers, landlords and lending institutions.
Help you zero-in on a target industry, business size, geographic location and other criteria that meet your desires.
Use the criteria you give us to find businesses whose owners may be interested in selling.
Determine whether or not owners of targeted businesses have an interest in selling.

(2) With Listed Businesses:

For general information, we offer you a Confidential Profile for each of our listed businesses.
After you sign Confidential Disclosure Agreement, we will make available a comprehensive presentation of information about a specific business of interest to you and serve as a conduit to the seller in your research.
Actively function as a go-between for the selling owner (as his/her agent) and you, the purchaser.
Provide assistance in financing most purchases.