You will probably buy or sell your business - or merge with another company - just once in a lifetime.

In so doing, you’re forced to undertake one of your career’s most important transactions armed with less experience and foreknowledge than when buying a VCR.

And that can be dangerous.

The fact is, acquiring or disposing of a business successfully can be every bit as complex as running it successfully. For every legal, tax, business, personal and financial hurdle you might anticipate, there will be scores more you hadn’t counted on. And you, your investors, your family and your employees will live with the results for a long time.

In the complex world of business sales, mergers and acquisitions . . . chances are, you don’t know what you don’t know.

And this is no time to take that chance.