The decision to sell your company is one of the most difficult you will ever make. Even considering a personal liquidity event (the taking of a significant amount of value, usually in cash, out of the business) may be difficult. You have invested many years of long days and lost weekends to build your company. You have made many agonizing choices and personal sacrifices to make your business a success. No doubt, your company has become a source of tremendous pride. It is part of who and what you are.

Through the years, Valufinder contacted me many times about selling one of our divisions. While I had not been ready to sell, I always benefited from my conversations with them because they often provided me with very interesting and useful information. When I reached a decision to sell the division, Valufinder was my first call. Because of our ongoing relationship, they were able to quickly create a presentation that highlighted my company to excellent and receptive buyers. Valufinder assisted me in understanding and evaluating the offers I received. They worked closely with my people and worked hard to ensure that I got the best deal possible. They are truly a unique organization - A. Lincoln Burns
Executive Vice President
The WESTVACO Corporation

Yet, someday you may consider selling your business or creating a liquidity event. In fact, getting money out of your business for personal reasons such as to lock-in security for your family, may not only be appropriate but highly desirable. When the day arrives, you can't afford to take chances. Creating a liquidity event or selling your company is not a matter for a beginner. To achieve your goals you need an experienced team of advisors acting on your behalf. Just as you would expect an inexperienced salesperson to rely on your company's top producer to assist with a major sale, you yourself should rely on knowledgeable and experienced advisors to assist you in professionally and profitably marketing your company for a financing or a sale.

Valufinder Group, Inc. is a boutique investment banking firm, specializing in providing transaction advisory services to owners of mid-sized companies. We have the experience and analytical capabilities necessary to evaluate your company within both its particular industry, and its current business and economic environment. Further, we provide the financial sophistication and marketing expertise needed to pinpoint and promote the characteristics of your company that make it uniquely valuable, and to successfully market these aspects to potential lenders or buyers.

Whether the decision to sell your company or obtain a personal liquidity event is a day or a decade away, we encourage you to read the 'For Owners' section of our website, and familiarize yourself with this specialized transaction process and the rationale, issues, complexities and procedures associated with it. You may also print our Owner Brochure to read about the process offline.

We hope this information will answer many of your initial questions, while introducing you to the services Valufinder offers and the advantages of a professionally packaged and orchestrated sale or financing of a company can have for you. We also hope that when the time comes for you to explore your alternatives you will contact us for more helpful information.

Our knowledge and years of experience in providing transaction advisory services to owners of mid-sized firms, together with your thorough understanding of your business, can be a powerful combination in devising a plan that fully achieves your objectives.

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