Private-Equities

Focus and Specialization
In the San Francisco Bay Area, there are a few mergers and acquisitions firms that specialize in very large, global transactions, and some that work only with cutting edge, early stage high technology companies. There are general business brokers who sell main street retail, food and service businesses. However, Private Equities is uniquely positioned to competently serve buyers and sellers of privately held mid-sized manufacturing, distribution, sales, and service companies in this geographic market.

Successful Transactions
Because we diligently approach each assignment as a custom project, our project success rate is over 90%. In the last 12 years, we sold every company for which we negotiated a signed purchase agreement. Even more significant is that we closed all but 6 deals in which we negotiated a non-binding letter of intent.

"As a merger and acquisition attorney, I know that in order to properly serve clients a business intermediary must have a wide variety of skills including knowledge of the accounting, legal, tax, deal making, and psychological issues involved in a transaction. The intermediary must be proactive, an excellent communicator and able to work well with his client's lawyers and accountants. Michael Sipe, Private Equities founder excels in all these areas and I give him the highest recommendation!"

James C. Chapman
Silicon Valley Law Group
www.svlg.com
408.286.6100

Ethics and Confidentiality
No deal is done unless it's well done... and stays done. One hallmark of our practice is that we work with honorable, fair minded clients of good intent and character. Our transactions are rigorously designed to endure. We employ prudent, tested methods to protect a business, safeguard its confidential information and to arrange discrete introductions.

Creativity and Skill
One of our key strengths is in the design of an optimal deal structure. Often, we develop creative, viable ways to reconcile divergent objectives of buyers, sellers, professional advisors, creditors, vendors, landlords, lessors, employees & customers. We are particularly skilled at facilitating the complex balancing of a myriad of transactional issues.

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