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Sell a Business

Sell a Business

Selling a Business with the Louisiana Murphy Business Professionals

The Murphy Business professionals in the Murphy Business Sales – Louisiana office are ready to assist you with the sale of your business.

Our experienced professionals help owners realize the true value of their business to properly establish a suitable marketing plan to help sell a business. The professionals at Murphy Business know the Louisiana market and provide you access to the broadest number of qualified buyers.

If you are in Louisiana and you’re thinking about selling your business, here is how the Murphy Team can help you:

- Work closely with you to clearly understand your business and your goals

- Learn about your business from all aspects to help optimize positioning and buyer search

- Professional assistance in determining fair market value of business and asking price

- Work with our clients to explain the entire business transfer process and have the business fully prepared for engaging buyers (and lenders)

- Create a crisp, comprehensive, and compelling ‘Confidential Offering Memorandum’ that tells the entire ‘story’ of the business and outlines the ‘deal structure’ in a professional manner

- Develop a marketing strategy that is based on common sense, hard work, and ‘pro-activeness’

- Manage the marketing of the business with buyer search(es), confidentiality protection (NDA’s), buyer qualification, and initial review without interrupting seller or business

- Effectively handle offers and negotiations as well as the due diligence process where the buyer formally inspects the business and any contingencies get individually removed

- Work with both parties and the closing team (attorneys and possibly title company) to create closing documents and execute a smooth closing with successful results for our clients

Selling a Business with the Louisiana Murphy Business Professionals

How to Sell a Business

All of our professionals have owned or managed a business in the past, which gives us first-hand experience to help pilot clients through the process of selling a business.

The experienced professionals at the Louisiana (LA) office will be with you each step of the way when answering the challenging questions of “how to sell a business.”

  • Prepare a detailed offering portfolio
  • Arrange a business valuation
  • Develop a marketing plan to sell the business
  • Implement the plan and promote to potential buyers
  • Negotiate offer to purchase or letter of intent
  • Coordinate Due Diligence
  • Finalize Closing through Financing and Funding

Murphy Business assists sellers through all the steps of selling a business, even through the closing. Contact your local Louisiana (LA) office today to receive a business valuation and all the information you need on how to sell a business.

Benefits to Sellers

Starting the journey of selling your business can be both thrilling and challenging. At Murphy Business, we recognize the importance of beginning with a solid foundation.

  • We start by conducting a professional valuation of your business to determine its fair market value, ensuring it’s priced correctly for a successful sale. Furthermore, Murphy professionals develop a detailed offering portfolio to create a compelling presentation for potential buyers. Our brokers are dedicated to exceeding expectations by tailoring customized marketing plans to attract qualified buyers. Our extensive local and national connections form a network of thousands of brokers, all focused on finding the right buyer for your business.
  • We offer buyers access to our network of banking professionals, assisting them with traditional financing or SBA small business loans, often reducing the need for seller financing.

Reach out to our office to sell your business with maximum marketing exposure and minimal selling time. Murphy will guide you from the initial valuation through preparing your business for sale, finding and qualifying potential purchasers, and finally managing the process to a successful closing.

Benefits to Sellers

Take the First Step Towards Your Business Success!

Contact your local Louisiana (LA) office to sell a business with maximum marketing exposure and minimum selling time.

Murphy will be with you from the business valuation to preparing it for sale, then finding and qualifying prospective purchasers, and lastly managing the process to a successful closing.

The Louisiana (LA) Murphy Business Brokerage Firm services the following areas: New Orleans, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Alexandria, Sulphur, Welsh, Leesville, Oakdale, Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Morgan City, Jennings, Deridder, Kinder, New Iberia, Breaux Bridge, and Opelousas.

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