Whether you are selling or buying a business, Trident Business & Corporate Sales is with you every step of the way to help you negotiate and close the best deal.
Selling or purchasing a business is a major decision, both commercially and personally, and neither type of transaction is simple or necessarily straightforward. Availing of the services of the right commercial business broker is a wise decision.
Trident is an experienced business broker in Melbourne, Australia, offering unrivalled professional services with integrity, transparency, and confidentiality.
Trident acts as an intermediary between business sellers and buyers. With you as our client, we are here to advise you, help identify the right buyer or seller, broker the best deal for you, guide and support you through the complexities of buying or selling a business, protect your interests during the entire process, and ensure the outcome makes sense for you both commercially and financially.
Trident acts as an intermediary between business sellers and buyers. With you as our client, we are here to advise you, help identify the right buyer or seller, broker the best deal for you, guide and support you through the complexities of buying or selling a business, protect your interests during the entire process, and ensure the outcome makes sense for you both commercially and financially.
Every business owner will, at some point, seek to exit their business, and selling with the best business broker near you is a convenient, safe, and wise option.
Tell us a little about your business, and we will respond with an appraisal and an obligation-free discussion regarding the sale process.
We screen potential buyers and only disclose your private business information to serious purchasers.
Trident has Melbourne businesses for sale in just about every industry and category. 44 available now, from $35,000 to $1,800,000, median $140,000.
Here are some recents sales across Victoria.
Brian handled the sale of our regional gourmet pizza store with precision and expertise. It was a long journey, and his support, patience and professionalism never wavered.
Very happy with the professional service provided by Brian and his team at Trident. Brian was very open and honest about our expectations.
Thank you Brian for your effort and honesty. I knew youre different from other agent from the moment we talked on phone. Its honesty and integrity that matters.
A huge thanks to Brian for all your hard work selling my business, you were wonderful to deal with, communication was fantastic, always kept me in the loop.
BRIAN BUDD is definitely one of the best Brokers I have worked with. Highly competent and very helpful. I highly recommend Brian’s services.
While you admitted you had not had experience in selling an IT company, the way you went about it was so professional and enthusiastic.
Listing the business and obtaining the authority to sell it.
Obtaining all relevant paperwork: lease, financials, equipment list.
Investigating and collating the information, producing a detailed information memorandum, and establishing where the business sits in the market.
Assembling a marketing campaign which is targeted and specific for your particular business.
Following up leads and enquiries, ensuring confidentiality is adhered to at all times.
Contacting our database of suitable buyers and presenting your business to them.
Ensuring follow up occurs from the interested parties, often liaising with their accountants, lawyers and banks.
Conducting business inspections with buyers and you, the vendor.
Addressing further concerns and issues while commencing to close the deal.
Liaising with the vendor regarding offers made and possible settlement terms.
Once an offer is accepted, ensuring momentum continues and parties sign off on the deal as soon as possible.
Deposits paid are held in a trust account until settlement.
Starting a business from scratch takes time, money, and discipline. Buying an established business removes the difficulty of founding a start-up. This can be the ideal option for many people.
You may have a conflict of interest if you are enquiring about a business to purchase and are involved in or associated with a related business.
Unless this agreement is completed in full, we are unable to release information on any business. The information provided by you will be treated in confidence.
A complete and detailed Information Memorandum is prepared for every business.
Helmed by Director Brian Budd, Trident is a boutique business broking agency located in Melbourne. Specialising in business sales in Victoria, we work with sellers and buyers of small businesses, franchises, large commercial enterprises, and everything in between across the state, in a vast array of industries and sectors. We operate with utmost confidentiality and integrity, working with you and for you to ensure your best possible result in terms of the sale of your business or the purchase of your new enterprise.
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You’re here! Trident Business and Corporate Sales is a boutique business broker located in Melbourne, working with clients across Victoria. We are your go-to small business brokers, franchise brokers, commercial business brokers, and business sales agents for “near me” services to buy or sell any type or size of business.
There are several ways to improve your business’s appeal to buyers, primarily focused on reducing the perception of risk and increasing confidence in its ability to consistently generate profits. This may include organising several years of clear financial records, documenting processes to reduce owner dependence, diversification, risk reduction, and demonstrating predictable revenue and growth. Trident’s business evaluation services can help you understand your business’s current position and the steps you can take to increase its appeal for sale.
While advertising on major platforms is an option, the best results come from targeting buyers where and when they are actively looking for businesses to purchase. Listing with the right business broker for you delivers optimal results. Trident Business and Corporate Sales has a diverse catalogue of Victorian businesses for sale across industries and price points, and we have successfully listed and sold hundreds of businesses to the utmost satisfaction of both sellers and buyers.
Approaching your sale strategically from the outset by partnering with the best business broker near you enables you to weed out the proverbial wheat from the chaff in terms of buyer intent. Listing with Trident captures genuinely interested business buyers, carefully screens them, and enforces strict confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements to guarantee only legitimate purchasers have access to the details of your listing.
Confidentiality and privacy are key to commercial divestment and acquisition. Unlike listing publicly and allowing anyone, including your staff and competitors, to be aware of your intent, when you list with Trident, your business sale remains 100% confidential until such a time as you elect to inform your employees and clients/customers.
You will need to gather your business’s legal and corporate documents, financial documents, contractual agreements, and operational agreements/documents. These include (as relevant) business registration certificates, lease agreements, vendor statements, commercial contracts, IP documentation, insurance policies, balance sheets, cash flow statements, business tax returns and BAS statements (2-3 years), creditor/debtor reports, budgets, digital asset credentials, employee records, standard operating procedures, and more. Trident’s business sales agents will advise and guide you through every step of the process.
Yes. You can sell a business if financial records are imperfect; this is more common with small, owner-operated businesses. This scenario can, however, complicate the due diligence process, limit the pool of interested buyers, reduce the valuation and sale price, and delay completion. Working with a professional small business broker to help you optimise your records and increase the commercial appeal of your business is a very wise investment.
YES. We appreciate that it can be detrimental to a business if employees, suppliers, customers, or competitors learn that it is even potentially for sale. Trident takes its commitment to unwavering confidentiality extremely seriously. We take several steps to maintain this, including ensuring our public listings are anonymous, screening prospective buyers to ensure they are legitimately looking to purchase, and enforcing legally binding confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements.
Every business owner will wish to retire at some point, and selling your business at the highest possible price can make a big difference to your financial circumstances in the years to come. Ideally, you will start preparing at least 3-5 years before you plan to retire. Doing so helps build value and affect a smoother exit. Consult early with an experienced business broker near you to advise and help professionally value the business, document daily operations, collate and clean up your financial documentation, settle debts, create a transition plan, and list the business for sale a year or 2 before you intend to retire.
