CHOOSE THE RIGHT BUSINESS BROKER

Making the Right Decision

OConnor Business Brokers is Manitoba's leading business brokerage. We offer our clients the advantages of a full-service business brokerage and advisory services to help them sell their business. Typically, this level of expertise, experience, and service is only available to large corporations, but we believe in working hand-in-hand with our clients – often small and medium-size companies – as their business intermediary in business brokerage transactions to ensure they receive the industry best-in-class advisory services for selling their company.

On a daily basis,  OConnor Business Brokers and M&A Advisors is involved in assisting business owners in the planning, valuation, confidential marketing, negotiation and ultimately consummating transactions of small to medium-size privately held businesses. We represent a wide variety of businesses for sale across diverse industries and sectors, ranging from general contractors and other construction trades to transportation companies, printing and manufacturing businesses. We have extensive experience with both business-to-business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) companies.

As current members of various affiliations, national and international, we pride ourselves on deploying unique methods of preparation, valuation, marketing, and negotiation leading up to a successful business deal. We work within exclusive representation terms with our partners and our listings are not available through Multiple Listing Services (MLS). As the opportunities we represent are generally well-performing, established businesses, we are extremely careful in marketing them confidentially and without disruptions to current operations. As part of our commitment to both sellers and buyers, each business’s performance is summarized within a confidential memorandum that is made available to qualified buyers only after they have signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

No matter how accomplished in the respective business field a company or its principals are, chances are that selling a business is not the business owner’s core specialty. This is why at OConnor Business Brokers, while we do not try to be specialists in every industry or business area, we are committed to being the best mediator, broker, advisor, and agent for small to medium-size business owners in the process of a business sale. The shortest way to achieving a successful closing and getting a reward for the owner’s ‘sweat equity’ is by following our advice and experience, as well as embracing the process OConnor has developed to assist business owners through this sometimes overwhelming, yet exciting process. The main steps of the business selling process consist of:

Discussing owner’s readiness to sell, and engaging OConnor’s business brokerage services:

• Business valuation to determine the most probable selling price;
• Confidentially marketing the business and qualifying prospective buyers;
• Introduction between the buyer and seller, and visit to the business operations;
• Negotiation of the terms in the Purchase Agreement;
• Investigation during the due diligence period;
• Closing of the transaction

At OConnor we have extensive experience in helping business owners sell their business successfully, so if you are interested in selling your business in Winnipeg, Manitoba, or across Canada, please contact us and provide some information on your company. We will be in touch shortly, and we look forward to helping you sell your business!