Sell Your Business

Most owners sell a business once. The buyers across the table do it for a living. MyExec runs your entire sale, so you walk away with what it's really worth.

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Business Sales Are Won and Lost in the Details

Every owner thinking about a sale carries the same questions. What is my business actually worth? Who is the right buyer? What happens to my people? How do I keep this quiet until it is done? And most importantly: how do I get this right, the first and only time I do it?

Those questions are exactly the right ones, and answering them is what we do. You spent years building this, and the sale is where that work pays off. Our job is making sure you get the maximum value from it: a clear asking price backed by evidence and data, a process that runs smoothly and efficiently while you continue to run the company, and a deal that reflects the full value of what you built, on favorable terms. The goal is an outcome you feel good about at closing and, more importantly, after it, so you step into the next phase of your life with confidence.

How We Sell Your Business

We manage the whole transaction for you: the valuation, the preparation, the buyer search, the negotiation, and the push through diligence to a signed close. You stay focused on running the company, which is exactly what keeps it worth buying.

Sellers who walk away with less than they should have usually failed at one of four things: getting a full offer, keeping that offer intact, protecting the business during the sale, or getting the deal closed at all. Each one costs real money. Our process is built around all four.

Get the full price

With one interested buyer, their opening offer anchors the whole negotiation. We bring several qualified buyers to the table at the same time, so the market sets your price and competing offers push it up.

Keep the full price

Most value is lost after the handshake. In diligence, buyers reprice the deal when they find something the seller did not get ahead of. We stress-test your financials against the questions buyers will ask before anyone sees them, so the number you agree to is the number you close at.

Protect the business while you sell it

A sale process can hurt the company it is selling: leaks that rattle your team, competitors fishing for information, months burned on buyers who were never going to close. We screen every party for real interest and real money before they learn who you are, and the business runs normally the whole time.

Actually get to closing

Time kills deals. Every week a sale drifts, something can change: the market, the buyer's appetite, your own numbers. We run the process on a schedule, keep every party moving, and drive it to the finish.

The Process of Selling Your Business

Eight steps, from the first conversation to a closed and funded deal.

  1. 1

    Valuation and baseline

    Everything starts with a defensible number. Our valuation professionals establish a clear opinion of value and walk you through what is driving it. Every later decision gets measured against this number.

  2. 2

    Goals and objectives

    Before anything gets packaged, we get clear on what matters to you: price, timing, your team, your role after close, and what you want life to look like on the other side.

  3. 3

    Readiness and cleanup

    With your goals set, we get the financials, the records, and the story into shape before anyone looks.

  4. 4

    Buyer map and marketing materials

    We build a targeted list of the buyers most likely to pay for what you built, then prepare a short anonymous profile and a fuller confidential package.

  5. 5

    Confidential outreach

    We approach buyers under non-disclosure and screen hard before anything sensitive is shared.

  6. 6

    Offers and meetings

    We bring qualified buyers to the table, run the management meetings, and use competing interest to sharpen the price and the terms.

  7. 7

    Letter of intent and diligence

    We negotiate the headline terms, then manage the buyer's diligence so momentum holds and nothing surprises anyone on your side.

  8. 8

    Closing

    We coordinate the final agreements with your attorney and accountant and drive the deal through signature and funding.

Six to twelve months

is the typical run from start to close. Clean books and early preparation move you toward the short end.

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Why Owners Choose MyExec

1. Deal Experience Across the Whole Spectrum

Our advisors have worked corporate M&A transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, small business sales worth a few hundred thousand, and plenty in between. That range matters: the discipline built running complex deals with sophisticated buyers comes standard on yours.

2. We Know the Story Your Numbers are Telling

Every seller has their financials before the buyer does. The edge is understanding them the way a buyer will: why the business is worth what it is, which figures carry the value, and how to defend each one under pressure. That is our corporate finance and valuation background at work, on your side of the table for the whole negotiation.

3. We are Entrepreneurs Too

We run our own firm, and our team includes a partner who built his company and sold it. The advice you get comes from people who have made these decisions with their own money on the line and who know what the process feels like from your seat.

4. Your Sale Is Our Priority

We take on a small number of engagements at a time, on purpose. When we take your sale, it becomes a priority for the whole firm: quick responses, the partner running your deal personally in every conversation, and the individualized attention a transaction this important deserves.

5. Invested in Your Outcome, On Your Timeline

The point of the engagement is the best result for you as the owner. If that means telling you to wait, or telling you exactly what would make the deal bigger before going to market, that is what you will hear, along with the plan. When the answer is go, we go at full strength.

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Confidentiality Is Built Into Every Step

Confidentiality is paramount in every transaction we run. We understand the consequences a leaked sale can have on a business: employees get nervous, customers ask questions, competitors talk, and the value you are trying to capture starts to erode before you get a chance to negotiate. Protecting the company while it is on the market, and setting up a smooth handoff for the new owner, is a core focus, so we treat confidentiality as a requirement at every stage.

In practice, that means buyers see an anonymous profile before they ever learn your name. Nothing is shared without a signed non-disclosure agreement. Sensitive documents move through encrypted file sharing and a secure data room, so nothing travels as an email attachment that could be intercepted, access is limited to the people we have granted it, and there is a record of exactly who sees what. Information is released in stages, tied to how serious and how qualified each buyer has proven to be.

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Most Businesses That Go to Market Never Sell. Prepared Ones Do.

20 to 30%
of businesses that go to market actually sell

That figure comes from the Exit Planning Institute's owner-readiness research. The rest sit, go stale, or quietly come back off the market. The pattern behind the ones that close is consistent: clean numbers, a real process, and an owner who started before they had to.

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1You are ready

Clear on your goals, your timing, and what you want life to look like after the sale.

2The business runs without you

A company that can operate and grow without depending entirely on the owner.

3Buyers are willing to pay

A market of qualified buyers with real money for what you have built.

The right window to sell

When all three line up, the process delivers its full value.

You do not need all three perfect to start the conversation. The most useful first step is simply knowing the number and the gaps, and that step commits you to nothing.

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Questions Owners Ask Us

  • We run the sale of your business end to end: pricing it, preparing it, finding and screening buyers, managing their diligence, and negotiating the terms. We represent only you in the deal, and we work as one team with your management team, attorney, and CPA, coordinating everyone's piece so nothing slows the deal or falls through the cracks.

  • A broker typically lists a business and works the inquiries that come in. We run an active, managed process: a targeted buyer search, confidential outreach, competing offers, and hands-on negotiation through closing. For a founder-led company in the $5M to $50M range, the difference tends to show up directly in the price and the terms.

  • Most sales in this range take six to twelve months from start to close, based on published sell-side benchmarks. Clean financials and organized records shorten it. Disorganized books and late surprises stretch it.

  • Answering that is where every engagement starts. Our valuation professionals perform the valuation, deliver a clear opinion of value, and walk you through what is driving the number. You can start with the valuation alone and decide afterward whether to go further.

  • Buyers first see an anonymous profile. Anything sensitive is shared only after a signed non-disclosure agreement, only with buyers we have screened, and only in stages you approve, through encrypted file sharing and a secure data room where access is limited and tracked.

  • Sell-side engagements typically include a small valuation and engagement fee during the process plus a success fee paid at closing. Most of our compensation depends on your deal actually closing. We will walk through specifics on the first call once we understand the business.

  • No, and the earlier conversations are often the most valuable ones. A year or more of runway leaves time to strengthen the numbers and shrink the risks a buyer will price against. A valuation now gives you the baseline and the plan.

  • Most of our transaction work is sell side, representing owners in the sale of their business. We also advise acquiring owners through buy-side engagements, with the same valuation and deal discipline.

Ready to Talk About Selling Your Business?

Tell us about your business, your goals, and your timeline. We will walk you through how we would run your sale, give you an honest opinion of market value, and you can decide whether we are the right fit.

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Buying a Business Instead?

Acquisition can be the fastest way to grow, and it is also the easiest place to overpay.

The seller knows the business inside and out; you are the one betting on it. We put the same deal discipline to work for you as the buyer: what the target is really worth, whether its numbers survive scrutiny, how to structure an offer that protects you if they do not, and what the combined company looks like the day after. You grow, and you go in knowing exactly what you are paying for.

Schedule time to talk with us today if you’re interested in acquiring a business.