Business Exit Planning
Strategy & Valuation
Business Brokerage
We help entrepreneurs create the highest enterprise value and exit on their own terms.
Business Exit Planning
Strategy & Valuation
Business Brokerage
We help entrepreneurs create the highest enterprise value and exit on their own terms.
Our Focus
Our specialty is building business exit strategies – a roadmap that puts you in the best position to exit on your own terms.
Our Clients
We collaborate with entrepreneurs operating businesses with sales between $2-$25MM across a variety of industries.
Experience & Trust
Having acquired, built and sold a number of businesses, Ashland Capital has the unique perspective of a business owner.
How do you plan to exit your business?
Ashland Capital Advisors specializes in Mergers & Acquisition and business exit planning. Entrepreneurs grow and operate their businesses often without having a specific exit strategy. We’re here to help.
Exit with Confidence
Ashland Capital has over 30 years of experience operating, selling, and building small businesses. When the time is right, Ashland expertly prepares companies for marketing and sale.
We first seek to learn and then collaborate on common-sense approaches for your business including:
- Business Valuation Factors
- Business Brokerage
- How to Value a Small Business
Navigate Your Exit
ExitView is a collaborative strategic business exit planning process created by Ashland Capital Advisors, specially designed for small and medium sized businesses.
The process provides entrepreneurs with a “roadmap” to their optimal business exit strategy and beyond. Planning includes:
- How to Make an Exit Plan
- How to Value a Small Business
- Best Time to Sell a Business
Ashland Capital Advisors is a boutique
Mergers & Acquisition firm assisting business owners across dozens of industries.
Entrepreneurs grow and operate their businesses with the intent to exit one day. The issue is that they often fail to have a specific plan about the condition, timing, and mechanics of that exit. Ashland Capital Advisors provides actionable plans and execution in two major areas:
Enterprise Value Planning and Deal Execution.
Services & Process
Enterprise Value Management
Deal Execution
Establish Goals
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Establish Goals
You need to know where you’re going, so you’ll know when you have arrived.
360 Degree View
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360 Degree View
Using an outside experts’ view to see the business as it is and the actions to take in order to add the greatest value. Don’t worry if it’s not perfect – wherever you are is where we will start.
Planning & Milestones
3
Planning & Milestones
Use objective observations and achievable milestones to set short, medium and long term goals.
Collaborate & Soundboard
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Collaborate & Soundboard
Work towards established goals via mindful collaboration and periodic interaction with an Ashland expert.
Review & Update
5
Review & Update
The environment is always changing; adapt goals and tactics as the market dictates.
TIME IT RIGHT
1
Time it Right
Working with Ashland’s planning process, you’ll know when its time to exit.
Time it Right
Working with Ashland’s planning process, you’ll know when its time to exit.
ENGAGE
2
Engage
Ashland will help you to evaluate and assemble your Transaction “A-Team”.
PREPARE & MARKET
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Prepare & Market
Ashland will lead the process of putting your company’s best foot forward, creating exciting marketing materials that sell.
Interact & Negotiate
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Interact & Negotiate
Working with prospective buyers is time consuming. Ashland ONLY presents qualified, motivated and rational buyers for your sale.
Manage Due Diligence
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Manage Due Diligence
Ashland deftly handles the details to get your transactions across the finish line.
Close & Post-Sale Items
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Close & Post-Sale Items
We are with you through and beyond the sale closing, offering guidance, advice and support.
Enterprise Value Management
1. ESTABLISH GOALS
You need to know where you’re going, so you’ll know when you have arrived.
2. 360 DEGREE VIEW
Using an outside experts’ view to see the business as it is and the actions to take in order to add the greatest value. Don’t worry if it’s not perfect – wherever you are is where we will start.
3. PLANNING & MILESTONES
Use objective observations and achievable milestones to set short, medium and long term goals.
4. COLLABORATE & SOUNDBOARD
Work towards established goals via mindful collaboration and periodic interaction with an Ashland expert.
5. REVIEW & UPDATE
The environment is always changing; adapt goals and tactics as the market dictates.
Deal Execution
1. TIME IT RIGHT
Working with Ashland’s planning process, you’ll know when its time to exit.
2. ENGAGE
Ashland will help you to evaluate and assemble your Transaction “A-Team”.
3. PREPARE & MARKET
Ashland will lead the process of putting your company’s best foot forward, creating exciting marketing materials that sell.
4. INTERACT & NEGOTIATE
Working with prospective buyers is time consuming. Ashland ONLY presents qualified, motivated and rational buyers for your sale.
5. MANAGE DUE DILIGENCE
Ashland deftly handles the details to get your transactions across the finish line.
6. CLOSE & POST-SALE ITEMS
We are with you through and beyond the sale closing, offering guidance, advice and support.
“I simply don’t know how we could have sold our business without Ashland.”
Melanie — Right at Home
“You understand the financial end of my business better than I ever did.”
“It felt great to make a plan for building enterprise value…a roadmap to where we are now confidently going.”
Faye — Big Grove Brewery
“Our engagement with Ashland changed three times; each seamless.”
Ben — Kegcraft Services