🏪 Commercial Action Playbook
Business Purchase & Sale: From Listing to Handover
Answer 5 questions to get a 5-category business transfer checklist: stages, valuation, due diligence, deal structure, handover — one page per category.
Buying a business is nothing like buying a house: the deal touches the lease, licenses, employees, suppliers, and customer assets at once, and one missed step can kill it. Both sides start from understanding the business itself, then move through listing/agency, disclosures, confidentiality, offers, due diligence, and finally closing and handover.
- One page per category, in process order
- Tied to your answers: buyers focus on due diligence, sellers on disclosure and marketing
- Financed deals need a longer due diligence window