Mergers & Acquisitions For Dummies

About the Author

Bill Snow is an experienced M&A professional. He advises business owners in the sale of their companies or the acquisition of other companies. He’s the one who contacts the buyers and sellers, negotiates and structures deals, oversees the due diligence, works with the attorneys to draft the purchase agreement, and ultimately gets the deal across the finish line.

Companies that Bill has advised include (but aren’t limited to) businesses in marketing services, food processing equipment, drink dispensing equipment, guarding, cleaning, staffing, distribution, data marketing, wastewater services, telecommunications, and systems integrators.

Bill has written articles for numerous online sources and self-published a book about venture capital called Venture Capital 101. He has been involved with World Business Chicago, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, the Technology Executive’s Club, the Midwest Entrepreneur’s Forum, and DePaul University’s PEN Symposium. He also hosts occasional networking events.

He has an MBA and a BS in finance, both from DePaul University, and he’s a registered limited representative (FINRA series 63 and 79). You can find out more about Bill at his Web site, www.billsnow.com.

Dedication

To business owners and executives who are thinking about buying or selling a company.

Author’s Acknowledgments

The genesis of this book goes back to my humble little attempt at some creative writing. Little did the ...