How To Buy Your First Business Workshop

The complete acquisition process from finding a business to closing the deal — taught in one hands-on day by a business analyst and M&A lawyer.

Only 5 seats left · 25-seat roomTicket sales close in 4 days 08h 56m$249CAD· one full day🍽 Food & drinks included📘 Printed playbook💬 Live Q&A
What you're getting

• 6+ hrs live in-person instruction, with 3 experts
• Printed acquisition playbook & LOI templates
• Direct Q&A with an M&A lawyer & deal analyst
• Catered lunch, coffee & networking

Sat Sep 19 · 95 King St E, Toronto, ON M5C 1G4 - LAUFT

Aspiring entrepreneurs, first-time buyers, search funders, local business owners
Anyone financing an acquisition

If you're serious about buying a business - or you just want to finally understand how the process really works - this room is built for you.

By the end of the day, you'll know how to:

1. 01 Define exactly what business you should buy
2. 02 Find businesses that fit your criteria
3. 03 Determine what a business is actually worth
4. 04 Figure out how you're going to finance the acquisition
5. 05. Read a CIM and identify financial red flags
6. 06. Structure an LOI
7. 07. Conduct due diligence before committing your money
8. 08. Negotiate price and deal terms
9. 09. Navigate the legal process from LOI to closing

We put a real, anonymized Toronto business on the table and analyze it as a group — the exact process you'd run on your own first acquisition.

Then we work through it live:

• Is it actually worth $1.4M?
• What would you offer — and how would you structure it?
• What financing could realistically work?
• What are the red flags?
• What should you ask the seller?
• What would make you walk away?

• 10:00
  Coffee, warm-up & quick chats
• 10:30Finding & valuing
  Find the right business & value itHow to find the right business for you · what to look for · the 3 valuation methods (DCF, comparables, precedent transactions) · financing options · exit multiples · the live $1.4M deal breakdown.
• 12:30
  Lunch & chat
• 1:30The legal side
  Due diligence to closingLOI · due diligence · negotiating · asset sale vs. share sale · contracts · funds transfer & setup · accounting & taxes · closing and what comes next.
• 4:00
  Live Q&A & closing notesWe wrap by 4:30 PM.

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