
What You Need To Know When Selling Your Staffing Firm
Nowadays, owners often put up their startups with a vision of someday being acquired by a large conglomerate. As the staffing industry continues to grow, private equity groups and established ...

Five Tips for Pitching to Investors
So, you’re looking to grow your staffing agency through acquisition. Now what? There are two next steps that need to happen simultaneously to keep the process on track: identify a ...

M&A Never Goes Out of Style
Despite the ebbs and flows of economic cycles, mergers and acquisitions never go out of style. According to Harvard Business Review, each year, companies spend more than $2 trillion ...

Staffing M&A: When A Buyer Calls
As the robust staffing M&A market continues in 2017, more strategic buyers are reaching out directly to smaller competitors to determine if they are open to selling their businesses. ...

What Staffing Buyers Want In Today’s M&A Market
During a recent conversation with an active buyer in the staffing industry, the buyer remarked to me that “we acquire other staffing businesses because we’re seeking to make our ...

An LOI Is Not a Done Deal
Signing a Letter of Intent (LOI) is an important milestone on any staffing M&A transaction. I like to think of an LOI much like a wedding engagement, as it’s a non-binding agreement ...

Private Equity Eyes the Staffing Industry: What Business Owners Need to Know
Private equity competition is heating up, spurring more of these active investors to consider businesses and industries have not historically been in their sweet spot. While a few firms ...

Be a Savvy First-Time Seller of Your Staffing Business
Selling a staffing business is not a simple endeavor. While not “rocket science,” there are many potential pitfalls in the process, many of which could cost an owner not only ...

Leveraging an M&A Deal for State Unemployment Tax Benefits
According to the Duff & Phelps Staffing Industry M&A Landscape, the first quarter of 2015 produced 25 staffing industry merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, consistent ...

Handing Over The Keys To Your Company
Did you ever consider when it might be time to hand over the keys to your company, so to speak? Some owners have no exit plan and want to run the company indefinitely. Thus, they have ...