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Sell the company you spent a career building — properly
Meravon manages confidential sales and acquisitions of owner-managed businesses end to end: honest valuation, qualified buyers, competitive tension, and a process that protects your team, your customers, and your price.
The practice
For most owners, the sale of the business is the single largest financial event of their lives — and the one for which they are least prepared. Confidentiality leaks, unqualified buyers, and single-bidder negotiations routinely cost sellers the value of years of work.
Meravon's brokerage practice runs disciplined, confidential processes for companies typically valued between $1M and $50M. We prepare the business and its story, qualify buyers before they learn who you are, create genuine competitive tension, and negotiate with the leverage that process creates.
Buyers engage us for the mirror image: acquisition search, screening, valuation, and negotiation support that keeps enthusiasm from writing the cheque.
What this practice covers
- Business Sales
- Business Purchases
- Confidential Marketing
- Buyer Qualification
- Valuation & Pricing
- Negotiation
- Exit Planning
- Succession Sales
- Management Buyouts
- Transaction Support
What you gain
- A realistic, evidence-based price expectation before you commit to a process
- Confidentiality protected through blind marketing and staged disclosure
- Multiple qualified buyers — the only reliable source of negotiating leverage
- Deal structures that balance price, terms, tax, and your obligations after close
- A managed process that lets you keep running the business while we run the sale
How an engagement runs
Valuation & strategy
What the business is worth, who the right buyers are, and whether now is the time.
Preparation
Confidential information memorandum, data room, and resolution of value-eroding issues.
Market & negotiate
Blind outreach, buyer qualification, structured offers, and negotiation to LOI.
Diligence & close
Diligence management alongside your legal and tax advisors through to funds in hand.
Common questions
How do you keep a sale confidential?
Buyers see a blind profile first, sign confidentiality agreements before any identifying information, and are financially qualified before management meetings. Staff, customers, and suppliers learn of the transaction when you decide — typically at or after close.
What does it cost to sell through Meravon?
A modest engagement fee covers preparation and valuation, with the substantial majority of our compensation as a success fee payable only on close — so our incentives sit exactly where yours do.
My business is too dependent on me. Can it still sell?
It can — usually at a discount. If your horizon allows, our exit planning work reduces owner dependency first, which is often the single highest-return project available to a seller.
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