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Portage, Michigan
About the Company
The Focal 5 team works with business owners on preparing them and their businesses for ownership transition, before selling. Based on three decades of working with buyers in the Mergers & Acquisitions process, we understand the nuances of what Buyers want and what they are willing to pay for. This ensures you, the business owner, that you are the preferred company that Buyers want, you get the price you deserve, and you get over the finishes line. Focal 5 manages the process from A-Z, including the sale. We do the strategic exit planning, sale readiness services, business valuations, confidential marketing in private auctions, buyer qualification, negotiation, and transaction management. Our experienced advisors combine national resources with local market expertise to build trusted relationships and deliver personalized guidance that helps owners maximize business value and achieve successful outcomes.
Broker Biography
Introduction
The principals of Focal 5 Group possess over fifty (50) years of M & A Advisory experience, comprehensively encompassing all aspects of the Merger and Acquisition field. Our professionals have a long and impressive record of success, ranging from selling and buying business of all sizes to establishing successful next-generation transitions and negotiating partnership buyouts. Deeply rooted in private business ownership, our team also includes members who have started, grown, managed, and sold their own businesses. Bottom line, we are proven Deal Makers!
Founded in West Michigan near the picturesque lakeshores of Lake Michigan, Focal 5 Group quickly has earned the reputation as one of the most successful Mergers & Acquisitions firms in the country. We are proud of the fact that we are the only firm with ownership representation in every state. Each Focal 5 Partner has an equity position in the firm and a reputation to uphold in their local community. If there is a local or regional nuance to your success, our Partners are the best-positioned advisors to understand it.
Whether you are in Manufacturing, Construction, Professional Services, Healthcare, or any other industry our advisors are equipped to successfully manage your unique transition. By knowing the process, we avoid the pitfalls, establish realistic timelines, maximize value, and get deals closed. It is a statistical reality that most efforts to transfer business ownership end in failure. By knowing the process, we avoid pitfalls, establish realistic timelines, maximize value, and get deals closed.
The Focal 5 Group team is made up of up like-minded people. Everything we do for our clients is intensely personal. Our Vision Statement, Mission Statement, and Guiding Principles are more than corporate rhetoric. They direct our actions on a day-to- day basis. During all of our interactions, people are our highest priority.
Services Provided
Readiness and Preparation: Focal 5 works with Business Owners on envisioning their life after business ownership, to prepare them financially, emotionally, and socially for their transition-Before the Transition. Focal 5 Wealth Advisors use a proven process to help a business owner thoroughly understand what they need financially after the sale of their business. Our Valuation Analysts prepare a real-world Range of Value that a business can garner in today's market. Not a mathematical probability, a Real Offer. All of this reduces risk factors for Buyers and makes you the preferred company to buy. Business Sales and Mergers: Focal 5 has worked with hundreds of business owners to sell or transition their business. Our team uses a proven deal process developed over years. From setting up the data room, preparing the marketing kit, managing a Private Auction process, legal documentation, due diligence, and closing. We are deal makers that get clients what they want.
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Professional Affiliations
Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®)
Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA®)
International Business Brokers Association (IBBA)
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