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You run a professional services company that will clear $900,000 in profit this year. Your accountant calls in February, tells you the corporate return is

Two regional carriers agree to combine. Between them they run $31 million of revenue, two operations centres ninety minutes apart, two billing platforms, and vendor

A precision machining shop outside Hamilton comes to market at $6.8 million, on $1.9 million of adjusted earnings and twenty-two years of profitable trading. The

You sell your company for $2 million and assume a large tax bill is simply the cost of a good outcome. Down the street, another

You look up what your business is worth, find a calculator, and it tells you your company with $900,000 in revenue is worth $1.8 million.

A buyer offers $8 million for your company, then spends ninety days in due diligence and lowers the offer to $6.3 million. Nothing about the

You are sixty-two, your manufacturing company clears $2.5 million in profit a year, and three different people want it: your daughter, who runs operations; your

A private equity group calls on a Tuesday and offers $12 million for the company you have spent eighteen years building. The number sounds generous,

You have spent years building a law practice that bills $1.2 million a year, and a younger lawyer down the hall has just offered to

You have found an established business with steady revenue, loyal customers, and a seller who is ready to move on, and you are wondering how

Exit planning is the work of preparing your business and yourself for the day you step away, and in Ontario, it is the step most

What happens to a family business when the owner is ready to retire, most of their net worth is still locked inside the company, and