Owner Consult
30 minutes · phone or in person
Your timeline, your rough numbers, and where a buyer would push back today.
- No obligation, no follow-up sequence
- An advisor calls you within the hour, weekdays 9–5
- In person anywhere in Chicagoland
Exit-Readiness Review
Two weeks · fixed fee
A CPA-led assessment of the five areas buyers examine, done with your real numbers, ending in the improvements that would raise your number.
- Readiness scorecard, five buyer lenses
- A realistic value range and what moves it
- A 90-day fix list in plain English
Sale-Ready Program
6 to 12 months · fixed monthly
We implement the improvements with your team, month by month, until the business is ready to change hands and priced like it.
- Books brought to a GAAP-ready standard
- Sales, marketing, and business development that grow without you
- Operational efficiency, internal controls, SOPs, and manuals
- A complete deal file before anyone asks
Or sell to us.
Lakeshore invests in and acquires Chicagoland businesses. When the fit is right, we'll make the offer ourselves: an outright purchase, or a stake that keeps you growing with a partner.
No process
No listing period, no marketing, no parade of tire-kickers. One prepared buyer, ready to move.
Full confidentiality
Your team, customers, and competitors never hear a word. The deal stays between us until you say otherwise.
Straight terms
If we want to buy, we say so in writing up front — and you stay free to take the business to market instead.
Deal season, with the team that prepped you.
Buyer already at the door? The people who cleaned up your numbers stay at the table: managing diligence, keeping the data room tight, coordinating with your attorney, all the way through closing. No listing required.
- Every diligence request answered once, well
- Working sessions before management meetings
You always know the number.
Preparation: always flat
Fixed prices, agreed in writing. Advice about waiting or walking away costs us nothing to give, so you'll hear it.
The sale: structured for your deal
Listing and sale representation is priced for the deal in front of us and put in writing before we go to market. Plain numbers, before you commit.
Selling to us: no fee at all
If Lakeshore is the buyer, there's no commission. You get an offer, your advisors vet it, you decide.