Karl wrote Selling Your Canadian Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing Value and Securing Your Legacy because he saw too many business owners making preventable mistakes that cost them millions of dollars and years of regret.
What buy-side M&A is and how acquiring a competitor or supplier can accelerate growth, expand markets and bring in talent faster than building organically.
Why a Quality of Earnings report has become standard in middle-market M&A, and how a $2 million adjustment to EBITDA can swing valuation by $12 million at a 6x multiple.
Best practices for protecting employees, suppliers, customers and intellectual property during a Canadian sale, from NDAs to change-of-control clauses in supplier contracts.
Why a known vulnerability, no succession plan for the founder or key executives, so often goes unaddressed until a crisis forces the issue, and who actually needs a plan.