The process of buying a business

A great deal of planning and groundwork goes into properly preparing for buying a business. When evaluating opportunities, your business strategy should drive a transaction; a transaction opportunity should not drive your business. An outside acquisition specialist can assist you and your team with all or specific parts of the acquisition process. Most importantly, an outside advisor brings objectivity. Many clients appreciate the discipline and candor an outside merger and acquisition professional brings to the process.

Lingate Financial Group works with individuals and companies of all sizes, and at all stages of the acquisition process, to assist them in purchasing the "right" business, at the "right" time, and at the "right" terms. For Lingate's larger corporate clients, we offer a full menu of professional services on an outsourced basis to help our clients achieve their business unit or corporate objectives.

Lingate works with our clients' management team, accountants and attorneys as a complimentary member of their merger and acquisition team. We can serve as your M&A specialists, assisting your team as needed with strategy development, filtering, target identification, initial contact, project management, negotiation, and transaction structure.