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Oct 3, 2025

Get Paid at Closing with 10% Down: A 5-7 Year SBA Succession Plan

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Oct 1, 2025

Sell Your A/E/LS Firm with the Step-Up Legacy Plan

We help doctors sell their healthcare practices by valuing the practice, and finding the buyer for your business. We sell a wide range of practices but the most common practices that we sell are dental practices , Dermatology practices, Ophthalmology practices, and Podiatry practices.
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Sep 12, 2025

Why Use a Specialized Broker for A/E/LS Succession

Business Sales
Sep 6, 2025

Why A/E/LS Owners Say Selling Was Best

Business owners are still active after they sell their businesses.
Business Sales
Sep 5, 2025

Why A/E/LS Owners Choose Key Employee Sales in 2025

Business Sales
Aug 29, 2025

When Value-Building Isn’t Exit Planning

When we talk about building value in the context of Exit Planning, we ask the following questions: 1. What is the company’s current value? 2. What value must the company achieve to enable its owner to reach his or her lifetime income and other Exit Objectives? 3. Which tactics can owners employ to close any gaps between today’s business value and the value they need upon exiting? 4. How can owners transfer business value most efficiently (in terms of taxes and otherwise)?
Business Value
Aug 28, 2025

Updated Step-Up Legacy Plan for A/E Firm Owners

We sell architectural, engineering and land surveying businesses and healthcare practices across the nation.
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Aug 22, 2025

Updated Exit Strategies for Selling Your Engineering Firm

We sell engineering businesses. We start by determining the value of you business and then investing a significant amount of time preparing the business for sale.
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Aug 19, 2025

Third-Party vs Family Succession Insights

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Exit Planning
Aug 13, 2025

Systems as Value Drivers in A/E/LS Succession

Business Value
Aug 8, 2025

Stop Procrastinating: 5-7 Year Exit Roadmap

If you have a goal to sell your business in five years and you do not do anything to prepare for the sale, are you going to sell your business?
Business Sales
Aug 6, 2025

Step-Up Legacy Plan™: Practical A/E Succession for 2025

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Jul 31, 2025

Start Your 5-7 Year Step-Up Legacy Plan

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Jul 25, 2025

Selling to Third Parties vs. Insiders in 2025

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Jul 21, 2025

Selling Your Architectural Firm in 2025

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Jul 15, 2025

Selling Your A/E Firm in Chicago 2025 Update

Architectural / structural engineering business for sale in the Chicago Area. This business idoes inspections for relocation companies, banks and an insurance company. Consistent and predictable cash flow.
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Jul 7, 2025

Sell Your A/E/LS Firm to Key Employees in 2025

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Jul 1, 2025

Realistic Cash Targets in A/E/LS Firm Sales

Most owners think they know how much money they will need to “retire” comfortably. Most owners are wrong. Owners start with the less-than-realistic assumption that they will receive all cash at closing for the sale of their companies.
Business Sales
Jun 27, 2025

Proactive Exit Planning for A/E/LS Firm Owners

Exit Planning
Jun 23, 2025

Pre-Sale Due Diligence Roadmap for A/E/LS Owners

Business Sales
Jun 16, 2025

Plan to Stay: Succession for A/E/LS Owners

Exit Planning
Jun 13, 2025

Plan Your Exit: Financial Independence First

Exit Planning
Jun 9, 2025

NJ Engineering Firm Succession 2025 Update

Engineering Business for sale that provides all types of engineering disciplines to private and public clients. Some clients date back over 40 years.
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Jun 4, 2025

Motivate and Retain Key Employees for Succession

Business Continuation
Business Value
Jun 3, 2025

Modern Succession Strategies for A/E/LS Firms

Exit Planning
May 29, 2025

Maximize Your A/E/LS Firm Sale Value in 2025

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May 23, 2025

Make Yourself Irrelevant: A/E Firm Succession Roadmap

Business Continuation
May 16, 2025

Legal Audit Checklist for A/E/LS Succession Success

Business Value
May 12, 2025

Keep or Sell Your A/E/LS Firm? 2025 Diagnostic Guide

Exit Planning
May 5, 2025

Is Your Bank on Your Side When You Exit Your Firm

Business Sales
Apr 30, 2025

Insider Transfers: Financing & Legacy Plans

Business Sales
Apr 24, 2025

How to Value Your A/E/LS Firm for a 5-7 Year Exit

Sell Your Business
Apr 18, 2025

How to Sell an Engineering Firm in 10 Steps 2025

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Apr 11, 2025

How Banks Value A/E/LS Firms for Employee Buyouts

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Business Value
Apr 4, 2025

Florida Surveying Firm Exit: Financing & Legacy

Surveying firm for sale in Florida that is the dominate surveyor in their market having provided boundary and topographic surveys from 1/4 to 1600 acres.
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Apr 3, 2025

Financing Employee Buyouts: A 5-7 Year Plan

General Dental Practice for sale in the Washington DC area. Gross collections exceed $500,000.00 per year.
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Mar 31, 2025

Fair vs Equal: Family Succession Guide

Business Continuation
Exit Planning
Mar 28, 2025

Experienced Advisors: Key to A/E/LS Succession Success

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Mar 24, 2025

Exit-Plan Now: Preserve Legacy & Secure Cash

Exit Planning
Mar 17, 2025

Engineering Firm Buyout Case Study 2025 Update

Massachusetts engineering business sold testimonial. We sell architectural, engineering, and land surveying businesses.
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Mar 10, 2025

Employee Buyouts: A 5-7 Year Exit Roadmap

We help you value your dental practice, prepare your business for sale, and find a buyer for your practice that works for you and your patients.
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Mar 6, 2025

Employee Buyouts Remain Best 2025 Exit Plan

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Feb 28, 2025

Delegating Third-Party Sales: A/E/LS Owners’ Guide

If there was ever a time to stay focused on your company, its the period during which you negotiate the sale of your business (often six months or more). Any drop in company productivity, sales, or income is like blood in the water and will be subject to the buyer’s scrutiny and has the potential to scuttle even the best deal.
Business Sales
Feb 25, 2025

Cultivating Value: A 5-7 Year Succession Playbook for A/E/LS Owners

You can’t just wait until you are ready to leave your business to find out how much “value” you need or want and how much “value” exists in your business. By then it will be too late.
Business Value
Feb 19, 2025

Buying the Boss Out: 2025 SBA Financing Guide

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Business Advisory Services
Business Value
Feb 17, 2025

Buy or Start Your A/E/LS Firm

Owning a business involves starting from scratch. You have to develop ideas and create the company from the ground up.
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Feb 10, 2025

Building Transferable Value: Updated Exit Strategies

Ultimately your success is not determined by how well you ran your business, but by how well the business runs without you. If you cannot be replaced, your business can not be sold to an insider or an outside third party. We Want to fix that!
Business Value
Exit Planning
Feb 7, 2025

A Race Against Time: 5–7 Year Succession Roadmap

Exit Planning
Jan 31, 2025

8 Steps to Buy an A/E/LS Firm Today

When buying a business, ideally you will have 15% to put down. However, in some cases, you can put down as little as 10% of the purchase price.
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Jan 28, 2025

6 Reasons Your A/E/LS Firm Won’t Sell for Expected Price

Business Sales
Jan 24, 2025

5-7 Year Insider Sale Plan for A/E/LS Firms

Exit Planning
Jan 21, 2025

5 Buyer Types for Selling A/E & Surveying Firms

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Jan 15, 2025

2025 SBA 7(a) Financing: Low-Down Employee Buyouts for A/E/LS Firms

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Jan 10, 2025

2025 Insider Sale Plan for A/E/LS Firms

Business Sales
Jan 6, 2025

2025 Guide to SBA Financing for A/E/LS Acquisitions

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Business Advisory Services
Business Sales
Jan 1, 2025

2025 Guide to Engineering Firm Employee Buyouts

Selling an engineering business involves knowing how to price the business, prepare it for sale and having the network / ability to sell it. John Noonan shares his experience in working with Allen Business Advisors.
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Dec 25, 2024

2025 ESOP Alternatives: SBA-Friendly Employee Buyouts

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Dec 20, 2024

2025 Business Continuity for Sole-Owner A/E Firms

Because Jim had dreamed of selling his company at 60, he had given little thought to what would happen to his business and his family if something happened to him. So, Engineering Solutions died of an all too common cause—human error and neglect, setting off a chain reaction of ever worsening consequences for Jim’s family and business
Business Continuation
Dec 13, 2024

10 Steps to Sell Your A/E/LS Firm 2025 Update

We know that selling your business represents a significant goal and somewhat of a challenge for you. Many business owners with whom we work share your struggle.
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