Business Sales & Acquisitions
Business acquisition, valuation, and operational insight for buyers and sellers.
The LodeStar team, led by Dr. Tony Tanaydin (DrT), helps business owners and prospective buyers understand the business behind the numbers. DrT's experience includes acting as an agent for sellers and advising buyers on business evaluation.
Your interests come before a transaction
Our advice begins with what is right for you. Sometimes that means buying or selling. Sometimes it means waiting, improving the business first, or deciding not to proceed. We will say so even when that means losing an engagement or a sale.
A second pair of educated eyes
A valuation matters to both sides of a transaction. Sellers need to understand the value they have built; buyers need to understand what they are acquiring and the assumptions behind the price.
- Business valuation: assess current performance, value drivers, risks, and the evidence supporting a valuation.
- Financial liquidity: examine cash flow, working capital, and the business's ability to meet its obligations.
- Operational evaluation: look beyond the financial statements at processes, quality, capacity, and opportunities for improvement.
- Acquisition assessment: identify questions, information gaps, and assumptions that deserve closer attention before a decision.
For owners considering a sale
Understand your business's present value, prepare for discussions with prospective buyers, and identify what may strengthen its position. Our team can help you evaluate sale readiness and develop an improvement plan before you decide whether to sell.
For buyers evaluating a business
Get an informed second look at financial performance, liquidity, operating conditions, and improvement potential. We help you distinguish supported findings from optimistic assumptions and consider how the business could perform under your ownership.
Improve first. Then decide.
If changes could strengthen the business, we can develop an operational improvement plan and illustrate what the business is worth today and what it could be worth under clearly stated improvement scenarios. These are estimates supported by assumptions, not promises of a future selling price.
With a clearer view of the possibilities, an owner may choose to delay a sale or keep the business. Helping you reach that decision is a worthwhile outcome.
Representation built on trust
When you appoint the LodeStar team to help buy or sell a business, our commitment is to honest, fair representation, careful evaluation, and clear communication. We work toward the best achievable outcome and help you anticipate issues so the process is as straightforward as possible.
Valuation and operational improvement advice are part of the conversation from the start. The services included in an engagement and their fees will be clearly agreed before work begins.
A service-driven purpose
For DrT, this work is a choice rooted in helping people and contributing to the common good. The LodeStar team shares that purpose, with a particular commitment to supporting nonprofit organizations and the communities they serve.
Our motivation is service. We welcome conversations with nonprofits about their challenges and the support that would make a meaningful difference.
Competitive fees. Low overhead. Clear terms.
Our low-overhead approach is designed to keep fees competitive with traditional business brokerage firms. Ask for a clear proposal that explains the scope, services, and fees so you can compare like for like.
Community service, ethical conduct, and sound knowledge guide our work. We will not exaggerate a business's prospects or tell you what you want to hear simply to make a sale.