Kimberly Advisors is a boutique M&A firm that specializes in pre-transaction exit planning, acts as a sell-side intermediary representing business owners in the sale of their company, and provides real-world, market-based business valuations to prospective sellers. As sell-side M&A advisors, we represent the seller in the transaction. We help sellers get the highest price possible, with the best terms, by running a professional, efficient, structured process. We are experts in structuring competitive auctions, negotiating price and terms, driving the closing process, and maintaining confidentiality. Exit planning services are aimed at maximizing the value a business will command in the real world of mergers and acquisitions before it is presented to prospective buyers. We are able to leverage our experience in M&A and our relationships with prospective buyers to advise business owners on the qualities and traits that buyers pay the highest premium to acquire.We also naturally specialize in performing market-based valuations. Valuation is a complicated concept, and from the business owner's perspective, they could usually care less. When we perform a market-based valuation, we leverage our relationships with a few of the thousands of buyers we work with—through an anonymous process that mirrors a live M&A deal. Through this, we draw in actual prospective bid ranges from different active buyers. Our process gives business owners a realistic idea of what a business is worth at this point in time, in the real world, based on what someone would be willing to offer for it. We also learn much during this process regarding what buyers are willing to pay higher premiums for.