Frequently Asked Questions

Cooperhawk works with buyers to identify acquisition opportunities, evaluate potential businesses, and navigate the purchase process. We provide guidance through areas such as initial evaluation, offers, negotiations, due diligence, financing, and closing while coordinating with the other professionals involved in the transaction.

Selling a business typically involves valuation and preparation, confidential marketing, identifying and screening prospective buyers, evaluating offers, negotiations, due diligence, financing, and closing. The process can vary depending on the business and the terms of the transaction. Cooperhawk helps coordinate each stage and works alongside the owner’s attorneys, accountants, lenders, and other professionals as needed.

Confidentiality is an important part of the business sale process. Cooperhawk uses measures designed to limit unnecessary disclosure, including confidential marketing, buyer screening, and confidentiality agreements before certain non-public information is shared. While no process can eliminate every risk of disclosure, we work carefully with owners to manage confidentiality throughout the transaction.

Cooperhawk Business Brokers takes a hands-on, advisory approach to business sales. We work closely with business owners to understand their objectives, assess business value, prepare for the market, manage confidentiality, identify and screen prospective buyers, and guide the transaction from valuation through closing.

Our approach emphasizes straightforward communication, careful preparation, personal attention, and coordination with the other professionals involved in the transaction.

Cooperhawk works with businesses across Main Street and the lower middle market. The size and complexity of a transaction can vary considerably, so we tailor our approach to the business, the owner’s objectives, and the circumstances surrounding the sale.

The time required to sell a business varies based on factors such as the business, industry, asking price, buyer demand, financing, due diligence, and the terms of the transaction. A business sale can take several months or longer from preparation through closing. Cooperhawk keeps owners informed throughout the process and helps coordinate each stage as the transaction progresses.

If you are considering selling your business, understanding what it may be worth and thinking through your timing can be useful even if a sale is still years away. Cooperhawk offers complimentary business valuations and confidential conversations for owners at any stage, whether you are beginning to plan or ready to explore a sale.