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M&A Advisory · Asia Pacific · USA

Insights — Page 7

Ideas, analysis, and perspectives from Lyndon Advisory.

Buyer Asked for Exclusivity: Should You Sign an LOI?

Exclusivity locks out other buyers. Check price, financing, terms, and timeline before signing — and keep termination rights if the buyer stalls.

Selling to a Competitor: Approach, Respond & Negotiate

How to approach a competitor to sell your business, or respond to an unsolicited offer: protect confidentiality, get a valuation, avoid exclusivity.

How to Sell a Business Confidentially

How owners can explore a business sale quietly: anonymous teaser, NDA process, staged disclosure, buyer screening, and employee timing.

One Customer Is Too Much of My Revenue: Can I Still Sell?

How customer concentration affects business valuation, buyer diligence, earnouts, and what owners should prepare before selling.

Management Team Wants to Buy My Business

What owners should do when managers or key employees want to buy the business: valuation, MBO financing, seller risk, confidentiality, and alternatives.

No Successor for My Business: Sell or Transition?

What owners should do when there is no family or management successor: compare sale, MBO, PE recap, and transition options.

Owner Health, Burnout, or Family Emergency: Should You Sell the Business?

A practical owner guide for deciding whether to sell after a health issue, burnout, family emergency, or sudden change in personal capacity.

Private Equity Approached My Company: What to Do

What business owners should do when private equity approaches: verify seriousness, protect confidentiality, avoid premature exclusivity, and compare buyer options.

Strategic Buyer Wants to Buy My Business: What to Do

How business owners should respond when a strategic buyer, corporate acquirer, supplier, customer, or adjacent-sector company approaches about an acquisition.

Unsolicited Offer to Buy My Business: What to Do

What owners should do after an unsolicited offer: protect confidentiality, test valuation, avoid early exclusivity, and compare other buyers.

Asia M&A Advisory: Sell-Side Specialists for APAC

Asia M&A advisory for owners in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and Hong Kong. Cross-border buyers, structured sell-side process. 2.5% success fee, no retainer.

M&A Retention Bonus: Amounts, Who Pays & Payment Timing

M&A retention bonus and incentive rate: 25–100% of salary, who funds the award, payment timing, tax treatment, and how sellers structure awards.