Pete Worrell of Bigelow LLC advises owners of large private companies on M&A strategy and succession planning. The firm works exclusively with entrepreneur-led businesses to answer how a company survives and thrives after the current owner steps away. Bigelow publishes two books on building enterprise value and has a resource library at BigelowLLC.com.
Hi everybody, I'm Pete Worrell with Bigelow LLC. Bigelow is best known as the M&A advisor that deals exclusively with entrepreneur owner-managed businesses. These are typically large, high-performing, but in every case private businesses where the owners play an important part in the leadership or the management of the business. Our clients are coast to coast and in a wide variety of domains. Typically, they may come to us with a couple of questions. One question might be, for example, "How am I going to get my business to succeed successfully beyond my personal ownership of it?" Or, "How is our family's enterprise going to succeed for the really long term, for the really, really long term, beyond our family's ownership of it?" At Bigelow, our scrappy boutique works as one collaborative team. We weld together the great characteristics of our unique abilities, and there are a lot of them because we have a terrific team, together with our collaborative experience. And coming together like that allows us to have absolutely terrific positive outcomes for our clients, in some cases life-changing positive outcomes for our clients. If you'd like to learn more about Bigelow, or if you would be a good fit for our team, go to BigelowLLC.com. There's a section there called Resource Library. It's got lots of immediately useful information for our entrepreneur owner-managers, for their advisors, or for you. You could also look at one of our two books, Enterprise Value, which is published by McGraw-Hill. You could listen to it on Audible.com, or you can order a copy from Amazon, or just let us know and we'll send you a copy. It talks about the why of the M&A process. Thinking About the Future from the Eyes of Our Clients through a series of true stories it tells. Or you could look at our book which is more about the what or the how, which might give you some more insight to the work content here. That book is called If You Want to Have a Capital Gain Someday, What Are the 6 Things You Can Do Right Now? Margaret Mead, I think it was, said, "Never underestimate the power of a dedicated small team to change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." If you'd like to learn more about the Bigelow team, go and check it out, and I hope if you do, I have a chance to shake your hand in person someday.
