Why Sell With VR in San Francisco?

Our goal is simple – to get the highest possible price for your business.

Our firm was founded with the vision of providing small and mid-market business owners with a predictable and successful exit strategy.  Our process for advising in the sale or purchase of businesses is based on a proven model.

At VR Mergers & Acquisitions in San Francisco, our commitment is to use our methodology to carefully create a customized marketing plan to sell your business at the highest price.  We meld our extensive understanding of the needs and concerns of small and mid-market business owners together with our proven methodology and our experience in multi-million dollar transactions, to deliver success for our clients.
We deliver on the following:

  • Assessing whether this is the right time in your company’s lifecycle and market placement to sell your company
  • We offer access to three distinct buyer polls for our sellers
    • Individuals or Financial Buyers
    • Private Equity Groups
    • Corporate or Strategic Buyers
  • Knowledge of the market – which means how to get the highest price for our clients
  • Knowledge of the competition
  • Knowledge of the Potential Buyers
  • Experts at helping to organize & present your business to best enhance its appeal to those buyers
  • Positioning and Packaging our Clients for all three buyer pools
  • Keeping Confidentiality as our top priority through the entire selling process
  • Screening and Qualifying Potential Purchasers
  • Structuring the company for sale

Buying or selling … the odds aren't good.

The odds of successfully selling a business aren't good. Nine out of 10 prospective "Buyers" never buy. Eight out of 10 Sellers don't get the deal they want. And seven out of 10 Corporate Buyers chase deals for more than a year without buying. The odds for business owners selling their businesses are even worse (see box).

Thinking About Selling? Check These Odds!

Why? It's simple.

Buying or selling a business is complicated. It's easy to get bogged down in details, confounded by alternatives or stagnated by emotion. But there is a way to beat the odds.

VR, is dedicated to changing the odds in our client's favor by providing intelligent, informed and tough representation of our client's interests in the complex world of buying and selling a business.

Our company works with serious Sellers to put together winning deals.

Beginning with the Seller's decision to sell, VR clients navigate the treacherous waters of selling a business with ease. Our clients don't have to struggle to find the answers to key questions like "How much is the business worth?" or "Is this a good time to sell?" But most importantly, we assist Sellers in making the decisions that best fit their particular circumstances.

At VR, we're not "selling" anything. We act as a professional advisor up to the point of sale and as an intermediary during the sale.

For the Seller, we find the right Buyer. When we do, we automatically find the best price.

For Buyers, we find the business opportunity that most closely matches their needs, talents and resources. When we do, we help to ensure the Buyer's long-term success.

So, want to beat the odds? Choose VR, for intelligent, informed and tough representation in the complex world of buying and selling a business.

Why do most owners choose VR representation?

  • Leader in Volume and Experience - VR has sold more businesses in the world than anyone®. - 100�s of thousands and counting. We sell more than double the industry average percentage of businesses we represent. Our firm commitment is to deliver value far in excess of our fees.
  • Local, National and Worldwide Reach - We are the only small business sales advisory firm with a large national and international presence; we have 125 offices worldwide. Such reach is critical to offering the broadest marketing for sellers, and to providing the widest array of business choices for buyers. By having the most buyers and sellers, we provide the most liquid market for our clients. We have extensive databases, cultivated over 29 years in businesses, of all the major private equity investors and their investment criteria; US and foreign private companies, categorized by industry, with revenues from $100K to $1+ billion; all US public companies; and major foreign public companies. VR has built our own additional databases of more than 2,500 buyers who are explicitly looking for local businesses across all major industry sectors.
  • VR in San Francisco's Team, Most Experienced and Skilled Team - All of our Advisors have owned and operated their own successful businesses, which positions them to understand the "product" they are selling as well as their buyer and seller clients. See our section The SF Leadership Team. VR, through its worldwide headquarters, offers the most comprehensive training program in the industry to its intermediaries.
  • Extrodinary Professionalism and Disipline in all our Systems
    Over the course of selling 100's of thoursands of businesses, VR has developed extraordinarily detailed, systematic and proven systems. These systems cover the selling process, from preparing your business for sale, to detailed checklists and procedures for ensuring a successful close. Our VR office has made significant enhancements to these systems, as recognized by VR Worldwide, when it named our Principal Broker as the Top 10 Broker within the Network for the last two consecutive years running.
  • Rigorous Protection of Confidentiality
    We understand that protecting seller confidentiality is absolutely imperative. Many businesses can be severely damaged by a mere rumor that the business is for sale, should such a rumor circulate to employees, customers, suppliers or competitors. The leaking of sensitive information, such as financials, customer lists, marketing strategies, etc. could cause further damage. Commercial real estate companies, who advertise their properties openly for all to see, and some business intermediaries, are ill informed on the rigorous and detailed procedures necessary to protect confidentiality. A few examples: We carefully scrutinize all public marketing materials to ensure that they are sufficiently disguised to reveal nothing that could be used to identify your business. In addition, we screen prospective buyers thoroughly to ascertain their resources and motivations. We create a highly customized marketing plan for each client that reflects and manages their confidentially concerns. We frequently market exclusively to buyers who are within our own database of qualified buyers, as well as our 125 offices Worldwide, who each have their own databases of buyers.
  • Knowledge of Advanced Deal Structures and Tax Strategies
    It is not an coincidence that there are 100 times as many real estate agents as business intermediaries in the US, and that the average age of a business intermediary nationwide is 54 years old. Business sale transactions, particularly of larger enterprises, are exceedingly complex ones. VR in San Francisco prides itself on mastering the financial, legal and tax aspects of business transactions, which takes several years of active experience and a commitment to continuing education on evolving laws and regulations. Knowledge of advanced deal structures and tax strategies can have a profound impact on the net value received by our clients. The vast majority of business intermediaries in California, and virtually all real estate brokers, have little experience or education regarding these strategies. VR is unique in our continuing commitment to educate our team on these cutting edge techniques.
  • Wide Industry Experience
    While the vast majority of success factors in selling a business are common across industries, in certain sectors and in select aspects of the selling process, it is valuable to have industry knowledge and contacts. VR in San Francisco has sold businesses in a wide spectrum or industry sectors in Northern California, and its team of professionals has personal experience in multiple other industries, positioning us to understand the unique industry dynamics facing each of our clients.
  • Comprehensive, Sophisticated and Customized Marketing
    VR offers its clients the most comprehensive and sophisticated marketing program in our industry. We have the most extensive selling network, largest team of intermediaries and furthest international reach, as noted above. From our selling memoranda that we customized for each client to the custom marketing plan we put in place for each client we deliver the results our clients expect.
  • Dozens of Satisfied Clients
    We have many very satisfied buyer and seller clients in Northern California. Read our testimonials to see representative samples
  • Our Core Values
    VR in San Francisco was founded on ten key business principles that are the foundation of our success. We adamantly believe these principles have been at the heart of our success in Northern California. We adhere to the strict code of ethics of the International Business Brokers Association.