Touchstone Business Advisors specializes in assisting small and medium-sized buisness owners to develop and realize the full value of their business through positioning their business for growth, merger/acquisition or sale. Our breadth of experience sets us apart from other firms, which focus on just consulting, financing or brokerage services. Touchstone Business Advisors can help with growth strategies, business planning and operations improvement.

Touchstone Business Advisors' services include:

Customized buying and selling strategies
Business valuation analysis
Sell/hold timing review
Operations improvement
Interim management
Turnaround management
Offering document preparation
Transaction negotiation and structuring
Due dilligence guidance
Business brokerage
Comercial real estate brokerage
Mergers and acquisitions
Strategic integration
Financing and investment

At Touchstone Business Advisors, our main objective when selling a business is to achieve each client's financial objectives. To obtain the highest value, Touchstone Business Advisors carefully analyses all the details of the selling decision. If the timing is not optimum, we may recommend alternate strategies to achieve a better future sale value. In fact, a high percentage of firms reviewed are postioned for a maximum profit sale before being brought to market.

Touchstone Business Advisors' full service selling approach brings all of these services together into a comprehensive four step process:

I. Assessment - competitive, market and financial analysis to justify value
II. Preparation - positioning and offering document preparation
III. Marketing - active pursuit of potential strategic, financial and private investors
IV. Transaction - negotiation, structuring and closing

Touchstone Business Advisors conducts discrete search campaigns for corporations, private equity groups and individual buyers. We are experienced in helping clients define their target companies and implementing an aggressive search program to find a company with the "right fit." We perform national, regional and local searches to find businesses listed and not listed for sale on the market.

Touchstone Business Advisors full service buyer search approach incorporates a four step process:

I. Assessment - definition of target company profiles
II. Research - active search for businesses that match the target profiles
III. Negotiation - contact and assistance with structuring an offer
IV. Transaction - due diligence and closing