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IBBA Announces 2027 Board Election Results and 2028 Chair Elect

The International Business Brokers Association® (IBBA) is pleased to announce the results of its 2027 Board of Governors election. The following individuals were elected by the membership to serve a three-year term from January 1, 2027, through December 31, 2029: Austin Zhao – Transworld Business Advisors, South & West Texas Steve Zimmerman – Enlign Business […]

The Listing That Should Never Have Been Listed

A pre-engagement framework for knowing when to walk away, before you invest 60 hours in a deal that was never going to close. I once spent six months working a listing that checked every box on paper. Profitable service business, clean books, motivated seller, reasonable asking price. We went to market, fielded fourteen NDAs, and […]

The Integrated Deal Platform: A New Standard for Business Brokers and M&A Advisors

The business brokerage and M&A advisory profession is going through a quiet but significant shift in how deals are packaged, marketed and executed. Buyers now expect a level of presentation that a decade ago would have been reserved for major sell-side mandates. Sellers are more attentive to confidentiality and want to know exactly who has […]

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