Our Approach
Why GoodBridge?
As an M&A advisor, we are highly motivated to be a good bridge for our clients to successfully sell and transition its company to a buyer or transform a company to the next phase through acquiring a new company.
Selling a business is a life-changing, typically once-in-a-lifetime decision, which should not be taken lightly as generational wealth and financial independence are at stake. Being prepared to sell a business means thinking months and at times years in advance prior to marketing the business for sale as the sale process is lengthy and extremely difficult to navigate alone.
As a sell-side advisor, we want to ensure ownership is prepared to sell and fully informed about the market, pricing and fair value, has expectations and knowledge about the transaction lifecycle and its significant workload and time commitment, and identifies and understands the key deal points, structures and pitfalls. The same holds true as a buy-side advisor and how to properly value and due diligence a seller.
With a focus on small to mid-size privately held companies, our sell-side approach is centered around the ability to leverage our decades of transactional experience, financial and tax expertise, negotiation skills, market and industry knowledge, and project management skills in order to:
- Understand you and your business, its products and offerings, and culture
- Crystallize the goals and ideal outcome for you and your stakeholders
- Properly present your historical and forecasted financials to unlock the value of your business
- Prepare a tight NDA and seek out qualified potential buyers and assess culture fit
- Share a marketing deck for qualified buyers that showcases your business
- Negotiate proposal terms to maximize value
- Manage and expedite due diligence and the finalization of the purchase agreement
- Close on the initial agreed-upon proposal terms
Succession Planning Services
Selling your business and need assistance outside of the M&A process? We have a network of subject matter experts and partnerships to assist your needs in financial planning and advisory, insurance, tax, legal, and trusts and estates to properly transition your affairs when selling your planning.
Our core values
Why GoodBridge?
- Integrity First We act with honesty, transparency, and consistency — upholding trust as our most valuable asset.
- Client-Centered Thinking Every decision is tailored to our clients’ best interests, with both short-term and long-term success in focus.
- Confidentiality & Discretion We safeguard sensitive information and conversations with utmost professionalism.
- Expertise with Impact We bring seasoned experience and a broad array of closed M&A transactions in the industrial manufacturing, distribution, and services space, which translates a once-in-a-lifetime event into an M&A playbook with a series of steps to action and deliver results.
- Collaborative Excellence Strong relationships are paramount, and we seek to consult you the client, your key stakeholders, and your trusted external parties to provide a transparent and effective transaction process.
- Agility in Strategy No transactions are alike; each business is unique. We adapt quickly, think critically, and deliver innovative solutions tailored to your expectations.
- Value Creation Our goal isn’t just to close deals, but to forge outcomes that maximizes enterprise value and the continuity of the Company's legacy, culture and its key stakeholders - its employees, customers, suppliers, and community. Our goal is to ensure an owner(s) can walk away feeling an optimal purchase price and structure was achieved as well as secure and confident in the business' future without looking back.
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