Baby Boomer Business Owners Invited to Attend Panel Discussion of Recent Record Setting Business Valuation Trends and Exit Strategy Alternatives

Baby-boomer business owners are invited to attend a panel discussion about recent record setting business valuation trends and exit strategy alternatives. Survey data suggests that 2005 should be the best time to execute a liquidity event in the past ten years.

Silicon Valley, CA (PRWEB) March 7, 2005 -- After several years of depressed selling prices, sellers of privately-held companies with revenues of between $10 million and $150 million are realizing record high purchase multiples as measured by companies sold in 2004 (based on an International Network of M&A Partners (IMAP) survey). Survey data suggests that if market conditions remain as they were last year, 2005 should be the best time to execute a liquidity event in the past ten years. However, the impending supply of baby-boomer sellers entering the marketplace over the next ten years will likely depress valuations. Timing will be critical.

Silicon Valley-based ValueNomics Research, Inc. is sponsoring a panel discussion on the topic Private Company Exit Strategy Planning." The topic will be of particular interest to baby-boomer owners of businesses evaluating exit strategy alternatives. The panelists will include Brandt Brereton, managing director of Brereton & Co. a boutique investment bank focused on middle market transactions, and Nancy Tuck, portfolio manager with investment counsel Atherton Lane Advisers in Menlo Park, California.

Attendees will learn where private company valuations have been over the last decade, where valuations are currently, and where valuations may likely be headed given the exploding numbers of baby-boomer business owners that will soon be divesting themselves of their businesses. The panel will also cover what a baby-boomers company needs to be worth in order to comfortably retire and what can be done to enhance a companys value," said Brandt Brereton, conference chairman. Were exposing the facts that private equity groups and public companies, as buyers, want kept secret," continued Mr. Brereton.

For more information on how to attend this conference and receive the free IMAP survey data, email your request to brereton@brereton.net or visit www.brereton.net. Complete survey results will also be available after the conference at www.brereton.net

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Editors please note: The Private Company Exit Strategy Planning Panel Discussion will be held March 11th at the Silverado Country Club in Napa Valley. Contact Mr. Brereton at 408-938-9255x24 for a more extensive interview or for more information on the discussion.