This document summarizes a seminar about buying and valuing privately held businesses. The seminar discusses factors that affect business value, maintaining confidentiality during sales, financing issues, and goals to reach win-win scenarios for buyers and sellers. The presenter, Joseph Harrel, has experience buying, operating, and selling his own business and now helps others through business brokerage. Key points include properly evaluating businesses, understanding tax considerations, maintaining confidentiality in negotiations, and taking steps to minimize risk such as due diligence and professional advice.

2. Thank you for attending WELCOME! Thank you for attending our seminar “Buying , Selling and Valuing Your Privately Held Business”. We will share some ideas and experiences that we hope will be beneficial in your understanding of the “Real World” of privately owned businesses and the factors that affect their value. That Sunbelt is the largest business brokerage network in the world with over 300 offices in 14 countries is not particularly important to this presentation. However the source of this presentation comes from the experience pool of a large network of professional business brokers. In this seminar Joseph Harrel will convey awareness of areas that drive the value of a business, confidentiality in the sale or transfer of the business, finance issues , how we help protect all parties throughout the process with a goal to arriving at a win-win scenario for everyone involved. Joseph J. Harrel CBI Bsc. Admin. Sunbelt West Island 514-694-0554 poste 1 www.SunbeltNetwork.com