Our guide has everything you will need to empower yourself for a successful sale.
Seamless exit, transition, and succession planning
Business succession may be one of the most critical aspects of entrepreneurial life, with a lifetime of effort and investment leading to a smooth transition. Addressing the end-to-end challenges of this transitory step, we can help you develop a seamless exit strategy that aligns with your personal and professional objectives, including succession planning, valuation optimization, or transaction advisory.
Steps to selling your business
BDO's ExitRight team will help you along each step of your journey to meet your objectives.
Our services to help you exit the business
Deal Advisory
Our Deal Advisory professionals provide tailored guidance and support to companies striving to grow through mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. From identifying opportunities to enhancing deal value, our team works with you every step of the way to help facilitate a smooth transaction. We evaluate your needs, counsel on available options, and deploy customized solutions to meet your specific business goals.
Strategy, Value Creation & Analytics
When your business faces defining moments including business transformations, periods of growth, navigating recovery, and M&A transactions, significant value is at stake. We can provide engaged and hands-on professionals to help improve your value and guide you through the triggers of value creation—from revenue decline to market disruptions.
Valuations & Modelling
Whether you are pursuing growth, selling the business, or complying with regulatory requirements, a proper business valuation is a critical consideration. Your business needs guidance that comes with deep expertise in business valuations, models, and opinions. BDO's team of Chartered Business Valuators (CBVs) provide exceptional service to the full spectrum of industries, businesses sizes, and valuation complexity, bringing in resources from our global accounting and consulting network when required.
Accounting Advisory
The lean finance departments of today require external support, knowledge, and experience. Whether it's investors, management, or auditors who need accurate financial reporting to make informed decisions, BDO's Accounting Advisory professionals communicate the facts that matter and why they matter, simply and clearly.
Capital Markets & Public Company Services
Public companies or companies preparing to go public face unique challenges regarding regulatory reporting requirements, corporate governance, and shareholder demands. BDO's experienced team helps clients navigate pressing issues through strategies that meet regulatory needs while supporting future goals. Every growth story is different, and we have the knowledge and experience to support a diverse group of clients.
Domestic Tax Planning
Our team has deep expertise in tax laws and regulations to provide tax planning solutions—including personal tax, corporate reorganizations, business transitions, and estate planning—to help minimize tax burdens, simplify complexity, and create peace of mind.
Transaction Tax
BDO's Transaction Tax team has years of experience advising companies of all sizes on a range of transactions and reorganizations including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and refinancings. We support clients through the entire transaction process, helping to improve value and avoid potential risks.
Wealth Advisory
BDO's Wealth Advisory professionals build an extensive understanding of individual client situations. This approach enables our team to develop a thorough and comprehensive financial plan that aligns to our clients' unique investment, retirement, and estate planning goals.
Private Equity
PE firms must be able predict and react quickly to changing circumstances—from high competition for deals to economic uncertainty—to align strategic vision with growth goals.
Results oriented business strategies
Learn more about how we integrate expertise from all relevant practices within the BDO landscape to ensure that you are presented with the right strategy to protect your business, assets, and people.
Growth strategies designed to match your business model, your goals, and your expectations.
Grow, expand & acquireModernize the way you run and manage your business to be relevant in today’s digital world.
Evolve, automate & transformMaximize efficiency and performance of existing systems, processes, and people for greater financial growth.
Perform, assess & optimizeComply with the ever-increasing complexity of accounting, tax, and regulatory reporting requirements on an ongoing basis.
Comply with regulationsAdapt and respond more quickly and effectively to the changing economic, legal, consumer, and market landscape.
Adapt, prepare & respondSecure your most important assets through critical, preventative, and corrective measures.
Secure, protect & investigateSeamlessly transition your enterprise through three critical stages: succession planning, valuation optimization, and a strategic transaction.
Exit, transition & sell