Sell your business to the right buyer — for what it’s worth.
Most owners stitch together a broker, an accountant, and a lawyer who’ve never worked together. Cedar does all four at the same table — so the deal is built to close, and structured to keep more after tax.
One sale. Four moving parts. One team.
A broker can’t do the tax or the legal. An accountant can’t broker the sale. Vabby Makkar is a CPA, Chartered Business Valuator, and licensed broker — so every part of your exit is handled by the same team.
Valuation
What it's worth — an independent, defensible number from a Chartered Business Valuator.
Tax structuring
Sell it tax-efficiently — LCGE, safe income, purification, earn-out / VTB structuring.
Legal
Purchase agreement, reps & warranties, and closing — drafted in-house.
Brokerage
A confidential, managed process to the right qualified buyer.
A confidential process, managed end to end.
Valuation & readiness
We value the business and assess what's ready to transfer — the foundation for everything that follows.
Exit structuring
The tax team structures the sale before you go to market, so you keep more of the proceeds.
Teaser & CIM
We package the opportunity confidentially — an anonymized teaser and a full information memorandum.
Confidential marketing
We reach qualified buyers without disclosing your identity, and field interest through the broker.
Offers & negotiation
Buyers submit indicative offers (EOIs); we negotiate price and terms on your behalf.
Diligence, legal & close
We manage due diligence, draft the agreement in-house, and take it to a clean close.
The whole mandate — or alongside your bankers.
For owner-managed and lower-mid-market businesses, we run the full sell-side mandate in-house. On larger or more complex transactions, we lead the tax, valuation, and legal workstreams alongside your investment bank or M&A advisor.
Marketing materials
We create the anonymized teaser and the full confidential information memorandum (CIM) that present your business to the market.
Buyer outreach
We identify, approach, and qualify buyers — strategic and financial — through our network and a confidential, managed process.
Negotiation
We negotiate price, structure, and business terms on your behalf — with the tax consequences modeled in real time.
Process management
We run the engagement end-to-end — data room, due diligence, and the purchase agreement, through to a clean close.
Already have an investment bank or M&A advisor? We slot in as your tax, valuation, and legal lead — modeling the after-tax outcome of each structure and reviewing the deal so it holds up through to close, while your advisor runs the process.
The wrong team destroys deals.
A typical business broker
Can list and market the business — but can't value it to a professional standard, can't structure the sale for tax, and can't draft the legal agreement. You still need to hire two more firms, and hope they coordinate.
Cedar — one integrated team
We value it (CBV), structure the exit for tax (CPA), draft the agreement (legal), and broker the sale (licensed REALTOR®) — at the same table. Nothing falls between firms, and the tax planning happens before you go to market, not after.
See how it goes wrong: “One mistake killed his $5M deal” →
Aligned with your outcome.
Our brokerage fee is success-based — we’re paid when your business sells, so our incentive is your result. Engagements begin with a paid valuation and exit-readiness assessment, so you know what your business is worth and what’s achievable before you commit to a sale. No surprises, scoped up front.
Confidential opportunities.
Questions about selling your business.
How are you paid?+
The brokerage fee is success-based: we are paid when your business sells, so our incentive is your result. Engagements begin with a paid valuation and exit-readiness assessment, so you know what your business is worth and what is achievable before you commit to a sale. Everything is scoped up front, with no surprises.
How do you keep the sale confidential?+
We package the opportunity as an anonymized teaser and a full confidential information memorandum (CIM), reach qualified buyers without disclosing your identity, and field all interest through the broker. Buyers are identified, approached, and qualified before they learn who you are.
Why Cedar instead of a typical business broker?+
A typical broker can list and market the business, but cannot value it to a professional standard, cannot structure the sale for tax, and cannot draft the legal agreement, so you still need to hire 2 more firms and hope they coordinate. Cedar values the business (CBV), structures the exit for tax (CPA), drafts the agreement (legal), and brokers the sale (licensed REALTOR®) at the same table, and the tax planning happens before you go to market, not after.
What does the sale process look like?+
6 steps: valuation and readiness, exit structuring, teaser and CIM preparation, confidential marketing, offers and negotiation through indicative offers (EOIs), then diligence, legal, and close. We run the data room and due diligence, draft the purchase agreement in-house, and model the tax consequences of each offer in real time during negotiation.
When should the tax planning start?+
Before you go to market. Exit structuring, including the lifetime capital gains exemption, safe income, purification, and earn-out or vendor take-back structuring, is step 2 of the process, ahead of any buyer contact, so you keep more of the proceeds instead of discovering the tax problem after the deal is priced.
I already have an investment bank or M&A advisor. Can you still help?+
Yes. For owner-managed and lower-mid-market businesses we run the full sell-side mandate in-house. On larger or more complex transactions we lead the tax, valuation, and legal workstreams alongside your investment bank, modeling the after-tax outcome of each structure and reviewing the deal so it holds up through to close, while your advisor runs the process. M&A advisory is provided Canada-wide; real estate brokerage services where licensed (Ontario).
Find out what your business is worth.
A confidential conversation with a CPA, CBV, and licensed broker — no obligation, complete discretion.
The Cedar Consulting Group · Royal LePage® Commercial™, Brokerage. Independently owned & operated. M&A advisory provided Canada-wide; real-estate brokerage services where licensed (Ontario).