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Part 4 of our 4 part series on Business Succession Planning will close out the series with our final topic on how to prepare to sell your business.  This discussion will help you prepare for when it is time to sell your business and how to appropriately position your business to sell successfully.  Our guest speakers are Alan A. McClure with Breckinridge Investment Bankers and Edward H. Brown with Burr & Forman. 

Alan has over 30 years of experience advising management teams and shareholders of middle market businesses in connection with the sale of their business as well as assignments relating to acquisitions and capital raises.  E-Mail Alan McClure

Ed is a Partner in the Atlanta office of Burr & Forman.  He provides a variety of corporate services to the firm’s clients, but for purposes of this discussion will be focusing on representing family and privately held growth and mid-size businesses and investors in the Southeast.  E-Mail Ed Brown

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Part 3 of our 4 part series on Business Succession Planning focuses on the critical factors you need to consider when you have been asked to run the family business.  Joining us for this discussion are John Comer and Jack Stephenson. 

John is President & CEO of the Southern Restaurant Group, headquartered in Destin, Florida. The Southern Restaurant Group owns 8 waterfront seafood restaurants along the gulf coast, including the Back Porch, the Louisiana Lagniappe, Pompano Joe’s, Reggae J’s, Café Grazie, and the Fisherman’s Wharf. The company has been in business since 1979 and currently employs about 600 people. E-Mail John Comer.

Jack is a Partner in the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman and is the Chair of the firm’s Business Section. A substantial part of Jack’s practice involves corporate and tax planning for transactions involving business, insurance, real estate and health care entities and the negotiation and implementation of such transactions. E-Mail Jack Stephenson.

Listen to John and Jack provide tips on what you need to know when running a family business.

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Part 2 of our 4 part series on Business Succession Planning is a discussion about how to attract and/or retain the right management team for your business once the restructuring process is in place.  At the request of our listeners we have asked our speakers, John Cooper and Jack Stephenson, from Part 1 of our series (Restructure Your Business) to join us for this session. 

Listen to John and Jack talk about how to hire the right management team.

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Part 1 of our 4 part series on Business Succession Planning is a discussion devoted to the restructuring of your business.  Learn what to do to determine the appropriate time to restructure your business and the steps you should take once you have made the decision to restructure your business.  John Cooper and Jack Stephenson join us for this discussion. 

John has served as CEO and CFO of public companies and as Managing Partner of two offices of Coopers & Lybrand. Since retiring from his CEO position in 2008, he has spent a significant portion of his time assisting middle market businesses with strategy and working on corporate restructurings from both a financial and operational standpoint. His experience covers a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, technology and financial companies.

Jack is a Partner in the Birmingham office of Burr & Forman and is the Chair of the firm’s Business Section. A substantial part of Jack’s practice involves corporate and tax planning for transactions involving business, insurance, real estate and health care entities and the negotiation and implementation of such transactions.

Listen to experts give tips on when and how to restructure your business.

Welcome to ResultsMatterRadio!  The inaugural launch of our show is a four part series on Business Succession Planning, which will include: holding on to your business and restructuring the same, what to do when your management team may be ready to retire or you decide you need to retire them, what to do if you are the family member chosen to run the family business and finally what you should focus on when looking to sell your business. 

For more information, or to be a guest on our show, please contact Erin Meszaros, Chief Marketing Officer with Burr & Forman, at (404) 685-4337 or erin.meszaros@burr.com.

Thank you for listening to Burr & Forman’s Radio Show – Results Matter Radio. We hope that you find these podcasts beneficial to your business needs.