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Signing a Contract

Your business and your legacy  is the culmination of a lifetime of effort. When you decide to sell your business you need a dedicated team that can professionally handle the entire transaction.      

Your legacy deserves more!   

Business Team

SUMMIT BUSINESS BROKERS is a team of full time Brokers, Attorneys, Certified Public Accountants, and MBA’s that professionally evaluates, prepares, markets, documents and closes the sale of your business.     The Summit Business Brokers' professionals manage every aspect of the sale of your business from confidentially reviewing and preparing your business for sale, vetting prospects, reviewing offers, negotiation, contract preparation, closing and addressing tax matters.  Our team of professionals has decades of experience in business transactions ranging from Million dollar transactions to single business sales north of Fifty Million Dollars.   In total, our principals have advised and represented clients on hundreds of business transactions in excess of $850,000,000.

The SUMMIT team brings decades of experience in Business Sales to your side of the table giving you complete representation in the sale or purchase of your business.  We look forward to educating you on our process for making the sale or purchase of your business a positive, profitable experience.    

Summit Business Brokers

 Affiliated Team  

Robert Halem, MBA, Business Broker
Summit Business Brokers  

License BK3546645

Robert, a licensed business broker, has a MBA, with a concentration in both Operations and Finance Management and an undergraduate Accounting degree. He brings over 25 years of Sales, Operations Management & Negotiation experience to Summit. Robert specializes in optimizing business and organizational processes to increase profitability prior to the sale.

Kevin Donaghy, JD, CPA
Donaghy Law LLC

A 25 year attorney handling corporate transactions and a former CPA with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells and a.  A former Franchise Attorney, General Counsel for RE/MAX of Florida and Director of Legal Matters for Fiskars, USA, Mr. Donaghy brings decades of negotiation and transactional experience to Summit from both sides of the table.   Kevin has advised and represented clients on hundreds of business transactions.

John Turner Cone, CPA, CBVA
Cone & Associates

Certified Public Accountant and Certified Business Valuation Analyst with over two decades of business transactional and sales experience.  Mr. Cone has advised on transactions in over thirty industries and is experienced in evaluation and tax strategies at the Federal, State and International Level.  

The Process

For Sellers, The Summit Business Brokers fully evaluates your business to determine the best positioning to prepare your business for sale.  We do a complete Corporate, Operational, Legal, Financial and Sales & Marketing Analysis to determine the optimal placement of your business.   Our process helps streamline and avoid surprises during the due diligence process.  Summit Business Brokers provides the insight and focus on the key advantages your business offers to prospective purchasers. 

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For Purchasers, Summit Business Brokers takes the time to understand the goals, needs and abilities of Purchasers helping to narrow your  focus to the opportunities capable of achieving your goals.   Our experienced team will help guide you through the due diligence process to give you the comfort to properly respond to opportunities that potentially match your interests.   Knowing when to pass on an opportunity is just as valuable as knowing when to seize one.

We are experienced in negotiation, financial analysis, risk analysis, risk mitigation, personnel issues, legal contracting, tax matters and, most importantly, getting deals closed.   Every deal of any magnitude will have hurdles that arise-these are not problems they are the normal result of qualified individuals on both sides of a transaction identifying, quantifying and evaluating opportunity and risk. Issues and challenges to the savvy investor always present opportunities.

Buying or Selling a Business is, for most owners, something they will do once or at most a few times in their life.   Give your Business the attention it deserves and make sure you are confident in who is carrying your flag.

At Summit Business Brokers, we realize we are the stewards and caretakers of your legacy.  Our commitment to you is to take the time to understand your business and your goals and then to professionally and profitably marshall all of our talents to reach your goals.

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