The sale of a privately held company or family owned business typically progresses through the following seven stages: evaluation, marketing, information provision, negotiation, due diligence, document preparation, and administrative succession activity. FMTC’s standard business representation package for its clients covers all these activities for a fixed percentage of the sale price of the business. This type of representation is generally preferred by our clients because the time, energy, and resources spent on the transaction by FMTC are provided without cost until the transaction is completed...