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Services

Brokerage services for sellers and buyers

JCLA Ventures represents business owners preparing to sell and buyers looking for their next company. Every engagement starts with a free, confidential consultation.

For sellers

Selling your business

Business valuation

A valuation of your business, prepared by someone who started her career in corporate accounting and reads financials the way a buyer, a lender, and an owner will.

Included when you engage JCLA Ventures to sell

Exit planning

Help preparing you and your business for a sale, so you can make the change on your own terms.

Confidential marketing

Your business is presented to prospective buyers with confidentiality protected through nondisclosure agreements, blind listings, and buyer vetting.

Deal and closing support

Guidance through negotiation, due diligence, financing coordination, and closing.

For buyers

Buying a business

Buyer search and representation

Help finding and evaluating businesses that fit your goals, with representation through the purchase.

Deal and closing support

Guidance through negotiation, due diligence, financing coordination, and closing, drawing on Lesa’s relationships with the region’s lenders and investors.

Free consultation

Thinking about a sale or a purchase?

Talk it through with someone who understands the numbers and how much of an owner’s life is tied up in a business.