We customize our services for each client based on your needs and budget.   In most cases, our sell side projects fall into two categories:

1. A full-service custom designed engagement where we handle everything for you based on your goals and the unique characteristics of your business; or,
   
   
2. A FISBO (for sale by owner) approach with us helping and guiding you each step of the way.  This is recommended for smaller businesses.

Regardless of the size or scope of the sell-side project, Sports Club Advisors uses its network to maximize the value of your business and help you accomplish your goals.

If you are interested in buying a gym or fitness center, we offer two levels of buy-side services:

• • • Registered Buyer Network: Become a registered buyer by signing up on our website to receive notices of all sports, fitness and leisure related opportunities as we bring them to market. Click here to join.
        
    • Retained Buy-side Search: For buyers who prefer to be proactive, or who have very specific acquisition criteria, we offer retained buy-side search services. Throughout the entire process we act as stewards, coaches and advisors to help you achieve your goals.

Proven and Experienced Fitness Industry Expert Witness Services

Sports Club Advisors has the knowledge and experience to help you win your case if you are representing a plaintiff or defendant in litigation involving a fitness center, sports entity, or sports facility.

With deep knowledge of the sports and fitness industry, we provide expert witness services in the following areas.

Sports and Fitness Industry Areas of Expertise

1. Business valuations for sports, fitness, and leisure-related businesses
2. Fitness franchisor and franchisee litigation
3. Sports and fitness economic damages
4. Purchase price allocation
5. Valuation of personal goodwill
6. Earnout disputes
7. Lender or creditor disputes
8. Shareholder disputes
9. Divorce settlements
10. Bankruptcy
11. Valuation of intangible assets like fitness center membership lists, brand value, or goodwill.

The principals at Sports Club Advisors have completed over 250 valuation projects and written two books on business valuation, including The $10 Trillion Opportunity: Designing Successful Exit Strategies for Middle Market Business Owners, Second Edition and Business Valuation For Dummies.

Sports Club Advisors provides business valuation services to business owners, attorneys, buyers and lenders. Our valuations are often used in conjunction with a transaction or a capital raise but are also used in shareholder agreements, shareholder disputes, and divorce proceedings.

Sports Club Advisors provides value-added exit planning services to owners of privately held companies with an emphasis on achieving the owner’s personal, business and financial goals.

A strategic exit plan is designed to help a business owner and his or her family reach their personal, business and financial objectives. It involves focusing on what can be done over the next two to three years to maximize the value of a business and prepare it for sale so that the owner maximizes the net proceeds from the transaction after taxes and fees.

The founders of Sports Club Advisors have been leaders in the exit planning profession for over a decade. Rich Jackim, wrote the critically acclaimed book on exit planning, entitled “The $10 Trillion Opportunity” and founded the Exit Planning Institute, the leading association of exit planning professionals in the world.

Our exit planning services include:

1. Review and documentation of your personal, business and financial goals.
   
2. Analysis and benchmarking of all relevant value drivers including revenue, intellectual property, and off-balance sheet assets.
   
3. Analysis of all relevant risk factors or value detractors including operating costs, competitive market position, facility condition, management depth, customer concentration, etc.
   
4. Benchmarking the performance of your business based on five key management metrics to see how it compares to its peers.
   
5. Value your business using two valuation methodologies
   
6. Create a value enhancement strategy to maximize the value of your business
   
7. Analysis of the pros and cons of your exit options including a third party sale, a sale to management or a key employee, a sale to its members, or a sale or gift to a son or daughter or other family members
   
8. Develop a strategic timetable to implement a successful exit.