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Business Valuations

Comprehensive, data-driven valuations and comparative equity analyses to accurately price your practice, establish market benchmarks, and support informed decision-making.

Deal Support & Practice Sales

Comprehensive M&A guidance encompassing deal structuring, negotiation strategies, market listings, and transaction closings.

Practice Management & Assessments

Comprehensive systems, targeted coaching, and in-depth assessments designed to optimize operational efficiency and enhance advisory team effectiveness.

Continuity, Legal, Lending

Strengthen continuity through the implementation of formal continuity agreements, the establishment of legal entities, execution of enforceable legal contracts, and securing appropriate capital resources.

Anthony Whitbeck, CFP®, CLU®

Anthony "Tony" Whitbeck, CFP®, CLU®, is CEO and Owner of Advisor Legacy. He began his career as a financial advisor in 1989 and later shifted to coaching, where he’s guided more than two hundred advisory practices through growth, valuation, and succession. Tony leads Advisor Legacy’s certified third-party valuation engagements and coordinates lending and legal partners to streamline transactions. His articles focus on building transferable enterprise value, mapping internal vs. external exits, and avoiding common succession pitfalls. Drawing on decades of in-the-trenches experience, Tony provides practical, compliance-friendly guidance advisors can use right away.

Why Advisors Delay Selling Their Practice

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Why Advisors Delay Selling Their Practice

Stories about mergers and acquisitions are dominating the headlines, paired with an equal number of headlines discussing the vast number of advisors...

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Build a Strong Exit Plan

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How to List Your Financial Advisor Practice for Sale: Build a Strong Exit Plan

Are you one of the 100,000 advisors the industry will lose by 2034? The financial advisory industry is quietly heading toward a talent cliff....

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Biggest Roadblocks to the Sale of a Financial Practice

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Biggest Roadblocks to the Sale of a Financial Practice

The sale of a financial practice is a major event for the owner of the practice who spent years building the practice into a vibrant business....

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Lack Of Multigenerational Planning Negatively Impacts Practice

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Lack Of Multigenerational Planning Negatively Impacts Practice Value

As the industry speeds toward the Great Wealth Transfer, many financial advisory practices will see a rapid decline in AUM, with revenue and practice...

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Internal Successions on the Rise

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Internal Successions on the Rise

After years of mass consolidation and open market sales marked by big payouts and ever increasing multiples, advisors are now looking inward for a...

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