Business Acquisition & Transitions, LLC (BA&T) provides small to medium size business owners with strategic services on how to optimally enter, enhance, evaluate or exit a business. BA&T is an affiliate of the Business Valuation Network, Inc, a national association of consultants, many of which can work in collaboration on projects to achieve national market expertise and coverage.

BA&T works with Executive Management and their Accountants and Attorneys to assist in improving the company's performance, positioning the company to grow, to acquire or to sell at the highest price. Further, BA&T offers third party appraisals and performs machinery and equipment appraisals.

BA&T uses developed proven methods and systems to perform its services that are tailored to fit the entities needs, including:

Partner On-Call - If all you really want is a street-smart confidant--a sounding board--with whom to brainstorm topics, which will benefit from having an impartial entrepreneurial second opinion than Partner on-call fits your needs. As a business owner you understand that without risk there is no reward. Business owners will accept a certain amount of risk for the reward that they want. BA&T helps you determine and achieve the risk to reward ratio that you are comfortable with.

Process Flow Evaluation - A step-by-step detailed analysis of the way a company and its employees go about doing their business. This method can examine every process and procedure exposing areas requiring improvement.
Most common topics:

Profit & Value Maximization Strategy - This practical system, a culmination of over 25 years' experience, working with owners of companies in every industry imaginable, helps to increase the profit, market value and makes the business easier to manage. The profit & Value Maximization Strategy looks at the business on a macro level and then drills down as required. The subjects most often looked at are:

Business-For-Sale Locating and Screening System - A system proven to identify the profile of the ideal acquisition target and produce a list of potential companies that fit the criteria. Effectively, we take a proactive approach to identifying targets that would meet the buyer's requirements and then do a focused search to find those companies, evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and if we have a fit negotiate the acquisition with a win-win for all parties.

The Street-Smart Way to Sell Your Business - Similarly, when dealing with a seller, we analyze the industry for the most strategic buyers, knowing that the strategic buyer will pay the highest price for the company because it is worth more to them and contact them to explore their interest. This is accomplished while preserving and protecting your confidentiality.

Business and Machinery & Equipment Appraisals - Value determines everything. From the purchase price of a business, to the selling price of a business, to its line of credit, its ability to attract investors and on a personal basis estate planning and divorce settlements. It tells you accurately where you stand and gives you the information you need to move forward. BA&T offers you experienced accredited appraisers who protect you by knowing current valuations and fluctuations and can accurately appraise a business and its machinery and equipment.

Alan Fox, President and Founder of Business Acquisition & Transitions, has substantial business experience in owning and managing small to medium-sized manufacturing, distribution and service businesses. Fox has extensive expertise in identifying solutions that enable enterprises to optimize their operations for more favorable business transitions. He works closely with executive management to develop strategies for continual improvement of critical processes in finance, administration, logistics and operations-to maximize corporate value.

Professional designations include, Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraiser (CMEA), Senior Business Analyst (SBA), and Certified Business Counselor (CBC). Mr. Fox helps clients find and evaluate acquisition targets, develop business plans and increase profit. Through a strategic alliance he can supply third party ASA business machinery and equipment appraisals. He is an Officer of The Executive Board of Directors of the Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce, a member of The Institute of Certified Business Counselors, The Association of Business Transfer Advocates and is active in many other professional associations. Fox has a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from New York University. He resides in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, Gloria.