Transitioning a business includes a myriad of decisions and potential transition strategies, which can be overwhelming for business owners. Join the collaborative exit planning team of this actual recent business succession and tax planning case. The advisory team will share the triggering event, case facts, collaborative challenges/successes, walk through the math from a shareholder perspective, and review the resulting design plan based on the client’s life goals, family/spouse, and belief in future company profits.
Learning Objectives:
- Business Succession discovery process
- The Math of the Wealth Gap explained from a shareholding perspective
- Estate and tax planning strategies from the owner and the family’s current and future lifestyle needs/goals
- Exit planning advisory team roles, hiccups, and collaborative process
About the Presenters:
Learn from industry experts Greg Banner, CFP®, CLU®, CRTP and Joe Strazzeri, Esq..
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Event Details
Who Should Attend?
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Attorneys
You have close relationships with clients, and can benefit from being the first advisor to introduce the idea of exit planning.
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CPAs/Accountants
Owners participating in the State of Owner Readiness research continue to indicate that you are the No. 1 "Most Trusted Advisor." You are a natural fit to lead the exit planning team and deepen your relationship (and retention) of next generation owners.
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Financial Advisors
One of the critical ‘legs of the stool’ is personal financing planning. An owner must have a strong financial plan & contingency plan post-transition to enable them to thrive in the next act of the lives personally and financially. Exit planning brings this future mindset into the present. Exit is now.
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Wealth Managers
You’re a skilled relationship person. Being entangled into your clients’ professional lives matters as you build a strategy to manage their wealth upon them harvesting it from their business. Exit planning allows you to build a deeper relationship with your client, expands your COI network, while giving you an early seat at table well before the liquidity event.
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Valuation Analysts
Valuation is both a billable engagement AND an opportunity to provide owners some perspective on how to accelerate value drivers (and deal with value killers). Use exit planning to make that valuation into a longer term value acceleration engagement.
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Investment Bankers
Only 2 of every 10 businesses that come to market actually sell. Learn how exit planning can bring attractive AND ready business to your purview.
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Estate Planners
Exit planning is a natural fit for estate planners who want to operate more holistically with their owner clients.
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Strategic Consultants
One of the most critical roles in exit planning is building transferable value. Strategic consultants have the ability to expand options and drive rapid business value that affect performance today.
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Insurance Professionals
Exit planning addresses the 5 D's. So do you. Approach the risk conversation differently with exit planning.
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Mergers & Acquisition Advisors
Proper exit planning causes less deals to fall through at the last minute. Connect with CEPAs to build your healthy deal flow network.
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Commercial Lenders
One of the best relationships a business owner makes is with their banker. How can you help your corporate clients think about the future and ensure financial continuity? Answer: exit planning.
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Family Business Advisors
More than 50% of lower middle market business owners would prefer to transition to the next generation. Help them succeed with exit planning strategies.
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Other Professional Advisors
Regardless of your unique specialty, there is seat at the exit planning table for you. Learn more at www.EarnCEPA.com.
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Private Business Owners
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Members of Family Business Boards
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Professional Advisors
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Business Consultants
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Other Business Professionals
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Business Owners
EXIT PLANNING IS GOOD BUSINESS STRATEGY
The Exit Planning Institute, provides Financial Advisors, Accountants, Consultants, and other advisors of business owners with the critical education to differentiate themselves and add value to their existing client relationships through a credential, conference, courses, and content. Download the CEPA brochure for more information.
Meet Joe Strazzeri, Esq.:
Joe Strazzeri, Esq. is a Counselor and Attorney for Successful Families and Business Owners; Educator for Wealth Advisors; Speaker and Author.
As a former general contractor, land developer, and business owner, Joe combines these skills along with more than 20 years of experience as an attorney to counsel families and business owners.
Through 4 unique brands and with his partners, Joe educates wealth advisors, assists business owners to find “what’s next,” counsels families towards alignment, as well as protects families and their assets.
The Southern California Institute is a Thought Leader Community providing resources, education, and advice via collaborative think tanks, events, programs, online content, and introductions.
The Laureate Center for Wealth Advisors provides advanced training and support for wealth advisors, such as: Attorney’s, Accountants, Fiduciaries, Bankers, Financial Advisors, Insurance Professionals, and other wealth advisors. Learn how to attract, engage, and work with your perfect client and their trusted advisors.
Strazzeri Mancini LLP helps affluent families get to the heart of highly relevant matters and resolve messes in the areas of integrated tax and estate planning, business succession, and family governance counseling.
The Founders Group leads business owners through all phases of transition where increased clarity, net cash flow, and market value expands and solidifies choices for business transition: if, when, how, how much, and to whom.
Meet Greg Banner:
Greg Banner brings over three decades of experience as a Certified Financial Planner® to Asset Preservation Strategies. He specializes in working collaboratively with high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and business owners, providing comprehensive planning services including: family office services, business growth strategies, business exit strategies, asset management, retirement planning, tax reduction strategies, insurance, estate planning strategies, and asset protection for both individuals and businesses. Greg is passionate about using his unparalleled industry knowledge, connections and resources to help individuals get more out of their lives. His dedication to serving others is rooted in the relationships he builds with clients, and his commitment to putting others first. Greg helps quarterback planning, protecting and investing efforts so that his clientele can build generational wealth with intention and thrive. This has resulted in a variety of situations where he has been called upon to act as a family CFO. He has also developed a unique niche in working with real estate developers, and with private equity and alternative investments to create varied income strategies.