Jim Kniffen Email & Phone Number

President/Founder, Gulfstream Mergers & Acquisitions www.gulfstreammergers.com Profile: Over 150 Completed Sales Transactions of Companies. Buy side and Sell side representation. Extensive experience with diverse industry types of transactions with sales prices ranging from approx. $500,000 to $100 million. Prior Founder and M&A experience in California since 1993.Transaction Advisory Services: comprehensive valuation of the company's fair market value including asset valuation and intangibles valuation, trademark and/or trade name, customer relationships, goodwill, company market analysis, lease or real estate values, and all factors that would enter into valuation. Negotiations, Consulting, and Exhaustive Management of Transaction. Skills: strong, effective, and personal negotiator, problem solver, extensive knowledge and experience of legal and accounting issues, ability to defend and communicate transaction valuation with clients and lending institutions, strong leadership and interpersonal skills.Misc: M&A and Executive Awards, Approved Lecturer for continuing education for CPA professionals on Valuation and topics related to the sale of privately held companies. Guest Speaker at Legal and Accounting firms, Business Roundtable, and Pepperdine University Forum.Specialties: Merger & Acquisitions, Sales of privately held companies, Valuation, Consulting, Deal structure, Financing, Marketing, Due Diligence, Negotiations, Transaction Advisory Services, and Contract issues.

Listed skills include Negotiation, Valuation, Problem Solving, Deal Structure, and 46 others.

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  President

  Gulfstream Mergers & Acquisitions

  Dec 2009 - Present - Charlotte, Nc

  With the successful completion of hundreds of Company Sales and Valuations in the United States, Mr. Kniffen has extensive expertise in the Sale of Privately held Companies representing diverse industry classifications.Expertise includes: Valuation, Financial Analysis, Negotiations, Clarifying legal issues that surround the transaction, Long Term Lending Relationships, and Successfully funding and closing the transaction. Skills: Mergers & Acquisitions, Valuation, Negotiation, Transaction Legal and Financial problem solving, Pro Forma Forecasting, Consulting, Financing, Reverse Mergers.

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  Florida Atlantic University

  Social Sciences, Counseling