Proudly Presents

The Art of Selling a Business

Thursday, October 27, 2022

5-6:30 p.m.

In-Person or Online via Zoom

7401 Metro Blvd., Edina, MN 55439

160 Conference Room (First Floor)

Please join us in-person or online for a happy hour seminar, where you'll learn about The Art of Selling a Business. Enjoy drinks and hors d’ oeuvres while learning what every business owner needs to know strategically, financially, and legally prior to selling a business.

Hear from our extinguished panel of experts on how to properly prepare to sell your business:

Transitions In Business President and Founder Sam Thompson will present critical factors you need to know prior to selling a business including how to get top dollar for your company and how COVID has affected the selling process.
Stiles Financial Services President and Founder Susan Stiles will discuss the financial side of getting ready to sell your business and steps you should take years leading up to the sale.
Avisen M&A Attorney Jeffrey Robbins will share tips about the legal aspects of preparing for and the process of selling a business.

Featured Speakers

Sam Thompson, CBI, M&AMI

Transitions In Business

President & Founder

Sam Thompson is the president and owner of M&A firm Transitions In Business. He is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) and a Mergers and Acquisitions Master Intermediary (M&AMI) who has helped countless business owners successfully sell their company. Sam’s many years of experience help him seamlessly and confidentially guide business owners from the early stages of selling all the way through closing. Prior to becoming a business broker, Sam was a successful CEO and business owner for 29 years before selling his $16 million conference and event management company.

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Susan Stiles, CFP®, CHFC®, AIF®, CPFA, MBA

Stiles Financial Services

President & Founder

Susan Stiles is the founder of Stiles Financial Services, Inc., an independent financial consulting firm based in Edina, Minnesota, that emphasizes custom portfolio management and holistic advice solutions. In addition to the wealth advisory practice, the firm specializes in advisory services to retirement and pension plans, providing in part, fiduciary oversight, investment monitoring, and participant financial education. Susan, named a 2021 Top

Women in Finance by Finance &

Commerce, is a MBA graduate of Cornell

University with a concentration in finance and accounting. She also holds a bachelor's degree from the School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University.

Jeffrey Robbins

Avisen

M&A Attorney

For over 35 years, Jeffrey Robbins has represented entrepreneurs who start and grow technology-based enterprises and angel and venture investors who target those companies. Clients seek his assistance in strategic business plan development; entity selection and formation; private and public fundraising (including crowdfunding) and securities law compliance; employment and compensation plans and agreements; and merger and acquisition activities.