PRENCIPEInternational

Sell-Side M&A · Counsel for Owners
★★★★★  5.0 · 24 Google reviews
For owners selling a $500,000+ profit business

Sell your business. Keep the money. Walk away clean — and retire in peace.

You will sell this company once. If you mess it up, you are messing with your retirement. Amateur sellers do that every day, and they pay for it later. I know, we represent them when they go bankrupt.

Right now you are thinking about a price. This isn’t a real estate deal. The price isn’t the only important term. This is a business sale deal. There are a dozen other critical terms in your deal that you absolutely need to get handled correctly.

That’s what attorneys do that specialize in business sales. That’s what we do. And we’re the best at it, while offering the lowest price in the market.

Book a call with us if you want to retire clean and in peace.

Joe Prencipe’s phone number is at the bottom of this page. Read the offer on the way down.
What you get when you hire Prencipe International
The Safe-Exit Package

$5,000 of free work upfront, plus three guarantees no other law firm will offer you.

  • $5,000free
    Your First $5,000 Is Freewith a senior partner, not a juniorThe first $5,000 of your legal work is on us. No other law firm does that — they bill from the first minute. We eat that cost on purpose: you see the quality of the work before you have paid for any of it. We would rather show you than tell you.
  • Binding Price Quoteupfront
    Written Price Quotelaw firms will not give you one. We do.Ask most law firms what your sale will cost and you get a broad range of costs and no cap on that cost. We give you the number — on paper, with your name on it — before any work starts. If it is not in the price quote, you do not owe it.
  • Protection Guaranteedyour contract
    The Protected-Sale Guaranteethe contract you sign at closingOne contract closes your sale. It sets the price, how you get paid, and what you can still be blamed for a year later. We write that contract to protect you. Then a senior partner sits with you and explains it, page by page, in words you already own, until you understand every one. Guaranteed.

  • 4 Hour ResponseTo your messages
    The 4-Hour Response GuaranteeCall, text or email. For your entire sale — from the first call to the day the money lands — you hear back within four hours. From your senior lawyer. No other law firm does that.
The Safe-Exit Package — add it up
Your first $5,000 of legal workFree
Binding price quote, upfrontIncluded
Protection guaranteed on the contractIncluded
Four-hour response, your whole saleIncluded
Your cost todayOne phone call

“A great lawyer makes you money — he doesn’t cost you money. That’s something only experienced dealmakers know.”

— Joe Prencipe
Ten new sales a month. We turn down the rest.

We take ten new sales a month, and the month fills fast. Call now to hold your spot.

Every sale gets the full firm — a senior partner on the contract, the four-hour response, the reading and the negotiating — from the first call to the day the money lands. That is why the number is ten, and why the eleventh owner is turned down. Not waitlisted. Turned down, until next month.

Three things are true today and false the day the tenth spot goes:

  • Ten spots this month. They go fast, and they go in order. The owner who calls first gets the spot.
  • The free $5,000 belongs to the ten who start this month. Wait, and you start next month without it.
  • The buyer’s letter already has a date on it. Every day you wait, the buyer’s lawyer is a day ahead of yours.

Who picks up when you call.

Joe PrencipeManaging Partner · Prencipe International

The #1 international law firm in the world. The fourth largest law firm on earth. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Joe Prencipe worked at all three. Nineteen years at this work. Over $100 billion in deals, including Elon Musk’s Hyperloop company.

That is the bench a Fortune 500 buyer pays $2,500 an hour to put across the table from you. On your side of the table, the same bench costs around $200. The overhead is gone, not the lawyer.

Where Joe Prencipe worked
Freshfields Bruckhaus DeringerBaker McKenzieMorgan Lewis & BockiusU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

“His experience was evident from the first minute of the conversation. He took the time to get to know our situation and ask very relevant questions.”

Maxwell Wyatt · Google review

“Consummate professionals. Extremely knowledgable and absolutely indispensable. He took the time to make sure this construction guy understood all the legalese.”

AJ Harris · Google review
What goes wrong when owners sell — and what we do about it

Every worry you have about selling, handled.

Selling your business is the one time the person who pays you can turn around and sue you. You need a senior lawyer when you sell your business. Or you will end up buying a lawsuit. Many retiring sellers learn this the hard way. Here is what owners tell us they are afraid of, and what we do about each one.

“I don’t know if the buyer’s offer is fair.”
We read it line by line — inside your free first $5,000 of work — and tell you, in plain words, what you are agreeing to — before you sign.
“They’ll chip away at the price after I say yes.”
We lock the price and how it is paid in writing early, and we handle every “adjustment” the buyer’s side tries later.
“I could get sued after closing.”
The contract is written so it protects you, not the buyer. That is the whole point of the No-Lawsuit Contract.
“My lawyer never calls me back.”
Four hours. Guaranteed. For your entire deal.
“Lawyers cost a fortune and I never know the bill.”
Your first $5,000 is free. The price in writing first. And a blended rate of about $200 an hour — the big companies pay $2,500 for the same lawyer.
“My broker says I don’t need a lawyer yet.”
Your broker finds the buyer and gets paid when it closes. We get paid to make sure the deal is fair to you and the money reaches you.
“I don’t have time for this. I have a business to run.”
You talk to us. We talk to them. You keep running your business.
“How do I know he’s any good?”
Trained at the #1 law firm in the world. Over $100 billion in deals. 5.0 from 24 Google reviews. And he picks up the phone himself.
$2,500an hour — what big companies pay for this kind of lawyer
vs
about $200an hour — what you pay. Same training. A tenth of the price.

Owners ask us…

“My broker says I don’t need a lawyer yet.”
Your broker finds the buyer. That is their job. Our job is to make sure the deal is fair to you and the money reaches you. The broker gets paid when it closes. We get paid to protect you.
“I’ll get a lawyer when the contract comes.”
By then the big things are already set: the price, how you get paid, and what you are on the hook for later. Those get decided in the first paper you sign with the buyer — the letter of intent. Call before you sign it.
“Lawyers cost too much.”
Your first $5,000 of legal work is free. You get the price in writing before we start. And a bad contract costs more than any lawyer ever will.
Make sure this is you

This call is for owners who are ready.

  • You are ready to hire a lawyer to sell your business.
  • Your business makes over $500,000 a year in profit (EBITDA).
  • You have read about the firm.
Joe Prencipe picks up.

Ready? Call Joe Prencipe now.

No charge. No obligation. A straight answer and a real number before you commit to anything.

Voicemail? He’s on another call and will call you back shortly.

Private. Nothing you say here reaches your buyer or your broker.