What is a 409A Valuation?
For a variety of reasons, business owners need to obtain a valuation of their company’s shares from time to time. But this is especially the case if your company offers employee stock options. Since the early 2000’s, after the Enron debacle, the IRS began requiring...
The Only Constant in Life and Business: Change!
One day last month I was reviewing our newsletter archive on the TOBIN website and this newsletter caught my attention - "Acquisition Accelerates Growth ... if You Can Find Eligible Candidates." It was published March 17th of this year. Back then, a mere nine short...
Selling Your Company? This Option May Reduce Your Capital Gains Taxes.
Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds are Worth Investigating While Tobin & Company is not a tax advisor, nor do we profess to be, we do on occasion encounter strategies that our mergers and acquisitions clients might want to investigate with their tax advisors. Those...
Dealmaker’s Conference Raises a Host of Interest in “Making Deals!”
From “When Should I Sell My Company?” to “How Do I Get Ready to Sell?” Recently I was invited to join a Dealmaker’s Conference panel discussion with a team from Charlotte’s Womble Bond Dickinson, LLP legal advisors about Sell-Side Mergers & Acquisitions. Our...
Check Out New Videos
As we continue to expand the online presence of Tobin & Company Investment Banking Group and Tobin & Company Securities, I am delighted to inform you that we have updated our website, TobinandCo.com, with some new videos about our services. This past summer,...
One Way Marketplace Volatility Affects Us All
Retirement As Supply Chain Disruption? Three weeks ago, an attorney I’ve known for a while called me asking about our business valuation services. He said he’d recently attended a trade show scouting companies that might be interested in selling if the price were...
Acquisition Accelerates Growth . . . If You Can Find Eligible Candidates
Most companies that seek growth through acquisition have a firm foundation from which to spring. In today’s market however, finding eligible candidates to buy is hard – demand is high, supply is low, eligible candidates are not cheap and competition is fierce. Most...
Issuing Securities? Beware SEC Rule 3a4-1!
When issuing securities, navigating all SEC rules without risking regulatory intervention can be difficult and intimidating. Tobin & Company has been managing securities offerings for 20 years and our clients who issue securities tell us that SEC Rule 3a4-1 causes...
What To Do When Unexpected Events Prompt a Company Sale?
It May Seem Trite But No One Lives Forever It was a shock to the patient, the family, employees, and friends, when the business owner’s oncologist delivered the leukemia diagnosis. The President and CEO of the 50-year-old, international manufacturer of thermal...