OVERVIEW OF THE M&A SERVICES FPS PROVIDES

We are closers of highly successful business sales, simply put.

Consider us to be highly proactive intermediaries that exclusively present the successful privately held companies owned by our clients to qualified buyers that likely have bona fide strategic reasons to acquire or invest in them.

Importantly, these buyers will also have the financial resources or backing to close a deal.

We do not believe that good merchandise will sell itself for the highest possible price. Rather, this outcome requires patient, ongoing and thoughtful buyer selection and persistent advocacy.

Indeed, we believe that a highly active effort to identify, assess, cull and pursue a selective segment of the buyer universe for our clients is necessary to achieve our client’s objectives to find the best partner and achieve or exceed financial and other deal goals.

Today’s marketplace is highly discerning and selective. We seek to present our clients to the parties most strategically poised to benefit from the opportunities that our clients offer. In exchange for these buyers being enabled to achieve their strategic objectives via the acquisition of our clients, they will be positioned to offer our clients the highest pricing.

Yet, buyers will only be willing to price up a deal because our market-clearing sale campaign and advocacy require that outcome.

The processes and approaches that result in premium prices paid to our clients are tried and true based on our professional history.

Still, there is an art and passion that underlies all that we do. Bob Billow has spent his career learning and mastering these skills and endeavoring to be the best that one can be in this field.

Selling a company is a highly complicated, physically exhausting and emotionally draining exercise for owners. There is too much peril and complication to not have the best professional advisor serving you at your side and on call at all times.

Accordingly, as your best advisor we will turn over every stone to cultivate the interest of, and passionately advocate to, all those best qualified buyers who are financially capable and driven by us to pay the most money for a client company, to drive the pricing of the deal to the highest level achievable, to secure the most optimal structure while courting the least risk, to be accepting of only the most minimal conditionality and to speed forward to the closing in the shortest amount of time.

We offer a summary of the deal process for your edification on the pages that follow.

Additionally, the quotes you will read in this document inform the vision of our mission and are guiding lights that illustrate our perspectives and approaches.