Every year, profitable businesses close for good because their owners retire and no successor is found — not for lack of value, but because no one connects the right buyer to the deal and makes it financeable. M&A boutiques won’t touch deals this small — their model is built for far larger businesses — and the matching platforms that do lack what a succession actually turns on: trust in the price, and confidence the business survives the handover. Handover finds that successor and structures the financing so the business pays for itself, turning a closure into a transfer. The trapped value is a working company worth more alive than wound down;

Handover is the infrastructure that keeps it open.