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Whether your clients have a large company or a small family-operated business, the profitability of any business is contingent upon intelligent strategy and planning. Protect your book of business by helping your clients maintain a successful and strong business. Understand about strategies to help ensure that all the efforts and money invested in a business will not disappear when the unexpected happens. Through these strategies you and your clients can be protected from:
• Unintended or unwelcome transfers of ownership;
• Heirs being stuck with an inheritance they cannot use;
• Unsecure funding of the transfer of ownership of the business; and
• Potentially lengthy probate cases and lawsuits involving the business.
(Purchase of this product will include a Video recording, an Audio recording, and a PDF copy of the presentation.)
Presented by Steve Mancini, Esq. and Brooke Jensen, Esq.
A certified valuation uses more than just EBIDTA and a multiple to derive value. For most businesses moving though the five stages of business is the greatest factor for increasing enterprise value and stability. The evolution of who is responsible for separate core functions, decreasing risk, increasing standardization of processes, and reporting is key. Melisa and Shelley will review EBIDTA/multiple/valuation and then share a method to facilitate team alignment and empowerment, refine the directions of the company, and lay the foundation to create efficient, targeted implementation plans for the business that increase the value and stability.
(Purchase of this product will include a Video recording, an Audio recording, and a PDF copy of the presentation.)
Presented by Joe Strazzeri, Esq. and Shelley Lightfoot, Executive Director
The Los Angeles Chapter of the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) is hosting the Business Owner’s Forum 2018.
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Hosted by the Greater Los Angeles Exit Planning Institute and the City of Commerce. Contact Melisa Silverman at (818) 758-8457.
Business owners often face the question of what’s next – the decision between keeping and growing the business or transitioning it. Growing the business has its associated short-term rewards and long-term risks. Transitioning the business has the complication of whether it is in whole or in part; internally to the family or team; or selling to the nebulous third party. Business owners often have the feeling that the advice they are receiving is prematurely narrowed. This session will identify and discuss the pros and cons of the myriad of potential strategies as well as the improvements you should start making now to increase the value of the business. Learn how to navigate the tributaries and ramifications of your potential choices.
(Purchase of this product will include a Video recording, an Audio recording, and a PDF copy of the presentation.)
Presented by Melisa Silverman, JD, CEPA, CEVA, SBA, CMEA and Jeffrey Kates, MBA, CEPA
Our 14th annual Gathering is two days of shared insights, education, and collegiality. The Gathering is an annual event for all advisors in Estate, Business, and Wealth Strategies Planning. As we gather and work together we can, through collegiality and collaboration, provide the leadership our clients are seeking to offer clarity and direction for their planning needs.
The presenters are each experts in their field who enjoy sharing and who give of themselves and their time. Their unique skills, wisdom, and judgement are truly invaluable. With our Thought Leader Community as your resource, you don’t have to master the answer to every client quandary. Instead you become courageously armed with the right questions and resources. This We-driven mindset is transformational for you, your practice, and your clients.
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Click here to see the Gathering Agenda with the list of the presentations and presenters.
Simply recasting financials to find a new EBITDA and estimating a factor does not make a true valuation – even when combined with a calculation of fixed assets and goodwill. Misunderstanding enterprise value, a lifestyle business, and/or discrete and non-discrete intangible assets often cause businesses to lose value. Learn the nuances of Assessments/Valuations and how to transition from a Wisdom-driven Business to a Value-driven Business. Value-driven Businesses increase your options by systematizing the magic you’ve applied to creating success up to this point. They command stability for internal transitions, as well as the highest market value if you decide to sell.
(Purchase of this product will include a Video recording, an Audio recording, and a PDF copy of the Presentation.)
Presented by Melisa Silverman, JD, CEPA, CEVA, SBA, CMEA and Steve Mancini, Esq.
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Diversification to Help Reduce Volatility
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Presented by Private Bankers Brad Myslinski, Scott Keifer, and Dean Thompson
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What are the Primary Techniques of Business Succession?
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Presented by Peter Myers, Esq. and Sean Kenney, Esq.
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Often, many of the business transition conversations business owners have already had have not addressed the design of the transition itself. The topic has been overly generalized and prematurely narrowed: keep versus sell. Help your business owner clients navigate the tributaries and ramifications of their potential choices and figure out what they want. Learn how to implement a process that leads business owners through all phases of transition, from their current Wisdom-driven Business to a Value-driven Business. The resulting increased clarity for the owner and market value of the business expands options and solidifies choices for eventual transition: if, when, how and how much.
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Presented by Melisa Silverman, JD, CEPA, CVA, SBA, CMEA, and Joe Strazzeri, Esq.
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Where are you now? Evaluate the Current State of the business using a true valuations process conducted by credentialed professionals. This offers the business owner a realistic picture of their company’s value from a buyer’s perspective – including assessments in two distinct areas: attractiveness and readiness. Help your business owners become poised to transition from a Wisdom-driven Business to a Value-driven Business.
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Presented by Melisa Silverman, JD, CEPA, CVA, SBA, CMEA and Shelley Lightfoot, Executive Director
How do we as advisors have those important conversations with clients about how to pass their values on to their next generation in a business succession scenario. Values that are based in work ethic, family, philanthropy, and faith have had much to do with the success of the family business. A successful transfer can be all the more satisfying when those legacies are an intentional part of the succession plan. When you can initiate and lead that conversation, you will become a more valuable resource to your business owner clients. In this presentation, we will outline some strategies that will give you the confidence to lead your clients into this space and generate productive outcomes.
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Presented by Rick Abbondanza, Esq. and Stan Miller, Esq.
Between the >$10MM wealthy and the incredibly UHNW Family Office of $300MM+ lies the oft misunderstood and under-appreciated family business founder, family, and staff who have concentrated risk and have prevailed against the onslaught of business, personal, and advisory challenges. What do they think, want, and need? Why do they heed some advice and not others? How does an advisor differentiate him/herself with true “value-add” services and enjoy high client retention and amazingly higher fees year-after-year? Hint: It isn’t firm size that matters and transactional mindsets seldom work.
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Presented by Carl Sheeler, PHD, CBA, AVA and Joe Strazzeri, Esq.
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