Business Succession
Planning Services

Trust Aprio to provide the guidance and experience you need as you embark on your business succession planning journey.

Overview

Prepare Yourself and Your Business for What’s Next

Over the course of your career, you’ve worked hard and focused on growing a strong, successful business. But now you’re wondering…what comes next?

Effective succession management is a journey, not a destination—and Aprio's goal is to give you all the information and support you need along the way. Whether you’re planning for internal succession or preparing for a sale to an external party, our comprehensive transition strategies are specifically-tailored to your company’s goals and benchmarks.

Our process includes evaluating the marketability of your business, exploring the impact, timing, and structure that each transfer option will have on your taxes and liquidity, and providing an independent assessment of the pros and cons of each succession plan outcome. From risk management and executive benefit determination to transaction analysis and personal wealth management, Aprio can help you comfortably move forward with your succession planning.

Who We Serve

Helping Cross-Industry Clients Undergo a Smooth Transition Process

Across a variety of industry sectors, Aprio provides valuable insights to small and mid-sized businesses that are looking towards the future, including:

Engineering Companies

Architecture Firms

Professional Services Providers

Construction Companies

How We Help

Succession Strategies That Increase Value—and Lower Taxes

Whether succession is just around the corner or a few years in the future, Aprio's business succession planning team can help your company undergo a seamless transition.

Business valuation
Whether you are preparing for a transaction, navigating a dispute, or assessing financial risks, rely on Aprio for technology-fueled valuation and investigation solutions that support your public fund or private company on its growth journey.
Business transfer strategy
Who should fill your shoes? That person could be someone you have selected and trained or someone you need to recruit. Let our succession planning advisors help you create the right strategy for you and your business.
Generational transfer planning
The future of your family business is only as promising as the competence of your next generation and how you prepare them to lead. Let us help you create a strategy and timeline that enables a smooth transfer and the preservation of your legacy.
Executive benefits
Basic benefits and incentives aren’t enough to recruit and retain the senior leadership you need to grow your business. We help you structure compensation strategies and executive benefits for top talent, including non-qualified deferred compensation and supplemental executive benefits.
Risk management
Protect your business against the potential loss of top executives with key man insurance and safeguard your interests with buy/sell insurance.
Transaction advisory
If your succession plan includes selling your business or seeking investment from a private equity firm, we can help you identify potential deal breaker issues and opportunities to increase your return on investment. We partner with you to set the right business value and terms to make informed buy or sell decisions.
Private client services
Our advisors will help you understand and manage the personal financial impact that transferring your business will have on you and your family. We coordinate all aspects of your financial landscape, providing you a big-picture view of your situation and the best advice to help you prepare for what’s next.
ESOP services
Leverage this specific succession planning vehicle to provide greater flexibility and control in the transition of leadership and ownership of your business. Aprio’s ESOP team can help you install an ESOP and help you stay in compliance with the ongoing fiduciary and regulatory requirements to increase plan value for the business and your employees.
Business valuation
Business transfer strategy
Generational transfer planning
Executive benefits
Risk management
Transaction advisory
Private client services
ESOP services

Why Aprio

Focused on Your Business's Long-Term Goals

Unlike many CPAs who step in at the last minute, Aprio’s dedicated CPAs and advisors engage in succession planning an average of 3-5 years before the actual transition. Our team members focus on increasing business value for owners while providing incentives for key employees to achieve business goals and reduce taxes.

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Team members at Aprio

Years of succession planning experience

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Aprio's ranking among the largest business advisory and CPA firms in the US

Leadership

Putting Two Decades of Succession Planning Experience at Your Fingertips

Succession planning is a big step in a company's life cycle—and it requires an experienced hand. With twenty years of experience in the succession planning space, Aprio's dedicated professionals can help you and your company figure out what comes next.

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