Most owners think of a business sale as a single price and a single tax. It is neither. What you actually keep depends on how the deal is structured, how the purchase price is carved up across your assets, and the fact that you are selling in California — the highest-taxing state in the country […]
Most owners assume the right time to sell is when they are ready to leave. Buyers assume the opposite: the best business to buy is one running at full throttle, owned by someone with no urgent reason to sell. We buy Southern California businesses directly from their owners, and the pattern across our deals is
Nobody selling a business wants to hear “it depends” from yet another professional with an hourly rate, so here is the plain version: no law requires you to hire an attorney to sell your business. We buy Southern California businesses directly, and we have watched owners overspend on legal work their deal never needed —
When an owner tells us they want to sell to an employee, what they usually mean is that they want the business to stay in hands they trust — and they are hoping the money side can be made to work. We buy Southern California businesses directly, so we sit on the other side of
The question owners ask us in this situation is rarely a simple “can I” — it is “can I do this without blowing up the divorce.” Selling a business around the time of a marital split is legally possible in most cases, but in California it collides immediately with community property rules and the automatic
