Sell the business you built.
Global Capital represents owners of privately held businesses nationwide — marketed confidentially, with our fee paid only when the sale closes.
What selling with Global Capital looks like.
Every sale is different, but the work follows the same shape. Here it is in order.
We talk about the business, why you are thinking about selling, and what you want to walk away with. Confidential from the first call.
Nobody finds out until you decide they do.
We do not contact your employees, your customers, or your suppliers. We do not put a sign in your window. When and how your staff hear about a sale is your call, made on your timing.
Your business goes to market as a blinder — a short profile carrying its category, its general area, and its numbers. It does not carry your name, your address, your photographs, or anything else that would let a reader work out which business it is.
Buyers who ask about a listing are screened before they learn anything identifying. We ask what they are looking for, what they have bought before, and how they intend to pay for it. Only once a buyer signs our NDA and we are satisfied they can actually close do they receive the Executive Summary — the document that identifies your business.
What you’ll want to have ready.
None of this is needed for a first conversation. It is what a buyer and their lender will typically ask for once a sale is underway, so it is worth knowing where it all is.
- Profit and loss statements for the last three full years
- Business tax returns covering the same period
- Your current lease, including any option or renewal terms
- A list of the equipment, fixtures, and inventory included in the sale
- An employee roster with roles, hours, and pay
- Key customer or supplier contracts, and anything else the business depends on
- A note of any personal or one-off expenses running through the business
The questions owners ask first.
How is a business valued?
We start with a conversation about how the business performs — what it brings in, what it costs to run, and what it genuinely earns you once one-off and personal expenses are added back. From there we look at the lease, the equipment, the mix of customers, and how much of the operation runs through you personally. All of that gets weighed against what buyers in your industry have recently been willing to pay. The result is a price you and your broker settle on together, before anything is published.
Will my employees find out?
Not from us. The business is marketed without its name or address, and we do not approach your staff, your customers, or your suppliers. Owners generally tell their teams on their own terms once a sale is agreed and the outcome is no longer in doubt. When that happens is your decision.
What happens if it does not sell?
You have not paid us anything. Our fee is success-based and comes out of the closing, so a business that doesn’t find a buyer costs you nothing but time. If interest is thinner than expected, we come back to you with what buyers actually said and talk through whether the price, the terms, or the way the business is presented needs to change.
Do buyers usually need SBA financing?
Many buyers do. At this scale the money usually comes from a bank, often on a loan partly backed by the Small Business Administration, and we help you through that process. The cleaner and more consistent your books are, the wider the pool of buyers who can actually get to closing. Not every deal is financed the same way — some buyers pay cash outright, some fund it entirely through a bank, and in some deals the seller finances part of the price.
What does the broker actually do?
We price the business with you and build the confidential marketing package. We put it in front of qualified buyers and screen everyone who responds. We control what gets released and when — nothing identifying goes out before a buyer signs our NDA. And once there’s an offer, we keep the transaction moving through the letter of intent, the buyer’s questions, and the lease assignment, alongside your attorney and your accountant.
Do I have to commit to anything to start?
No. The first conversation is just a conversation. You can find out what your business might be worth and what a sale would involve without deciding to sell, and without your name leaving the room.
Start a confidential conversation.
Tell us how to reach you and roughly what the business does. That is enough to start. You are not committing to sell, and nothing you send here goes any further than the firm.
Would you rather just talk?
No forms, no obligation,
and nothing leaves the firm.