This is especially true if you enjoy your work, your health is good, you have an experienced management team in place, your company’s near-term prospects appear bright… and its future prospects appear even brighter.

Read about our most recent 2006 transaction.

	Farnam Companies, Inc. Transaction Value: $340+ million Transaction Type: Sale to Strategic Acquirer
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Have you considered what your business could be worth to you, your employees, your shareholders and the right strategic or financial acquirer now, while business is good and the market for successful, private companies is strong?

Or that if you are like several Etkin & Company clients, you are in a position today to receive an extraordinary value for your business, and to customize your transaction to meet your unique combination of personal and professional objectives?

But circumstances and prospects can, and oftentimes do, change unexpectedly. That is why it is so important for you to periodically reevaluate your situation and goals, and to always be aware of your business options — particularly when you are in a position to take advantage of them.

And that’s where Etkin & Company comes in.

Etkin & Company identifies, develops, negotiates and concludes sale, merger and recapitalization transactions for owners of successful, private companies. This is our only business, and has been our only business since 1987. We never represent acquirers.

And if the time is right for you and your company, Etkin & Company will maximize the value you receive in your transaction.

Etkin & Company’s approach to maximizing value is part of what makes us unique, and our approach begins with a fully informed owner. At the outset, we will get to know you, your goals and your business. We will provide you with the information and tools you need to decide if now is the right time for your company and you. And we will provide you with a straightforward, professional assessment of your Company’s value and prospects today.

Then, if you decide that the time and the opportunity are right, Etkin & Company will:

• Commit our professionals, our expertise, our capital and the resources of our New York and Zurich offices to your transaction.
• Develop and implement a strategy that builds on the same factors that excite you about your business and its prospects in order to make your company extraordinarily attractive to acquirers.
• Identify the best strategic and financial acquirers for your company, worldwide, and prepare descriptive memoranda that present your company to each such prospective acquirer in its most attractive and appealing light.
• Be prepared to emphasize, articulate and, whenever possible, quantify the specific benefits that each potential acquirer will realize from a transaction involving your company.
• Create a confidential, competitive market for your business that will put you in a position to choose among competing proposals from competing acquirers.
• Maintain confidentiality and coordinate all aspects of your transaction from our offices.
• Be your uncompromised advocate, negotiate aggressively on your behalf and place you on equal footing with the most experienced acquirers.
• Earn a success fee only after a transaction meeting your goals is completed.
  

Get to know Etkin & Company.

Read Selling, Merging or Recapitalizing a Privately Held Business in 2006, Etkin & Company’s Research Report that begins on the following page. This new edition of our report presents and discusses all of the issues an owner must consider before deciding to sell, merge or recapitalize a successful, private company in 2006.

Then reconstruct your company’s earnings, calculate the true earnings power of your business and determine a preliminary value for your company using each of the methods acquirers use today in our secure, interactive Business Valuation and Personal Wealth Workshop.

Review actual Case Studies and details of transactions Etkin & Company has completed for owners like you.

And contact Bill Etkin, President, on his direct line at (212) 888-7812 or by e-mail at betkin@etkincompany.com and find out what Etkin & Company can do for you.