Welcome to the How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run and grow your small business. And now here are your hosts.

Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. This is Henry Lopez. And my guest today, I'm excited to say is Carl. Alan,

Carl, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me, Henry. It's great to be here.

I'm excited to have you and excited to talk about what we're going to get into today. But

Carl is an entrepreneur, an investor, and a corporate deal maker. He's worked on transactions

worth over $50 billion,

which includes over 250 acquisitions and sales,

together with more than 100 capital fundraising projects.

In a 24-year career,

Carl has analyzed thousands of businesses, big and small,

in 17 different countries and across

nearly every business sector you can imagine. Carl has a solid reputation as an investor and

corporate dealmaker, having worked for Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Forrester, and Gartner,

and he has advised some of the world's largest corporations on

investments, acquisitions, disposals, and restructuring. He has also assisted hundreds of

business owners in raising both equity and debt financing. And Carl walks to talk. He's

acquired and sold numerous businesses for himself. In fact, he's just been doing quite a bit of travel,

and some of it includes looking for new prospective businesses.

He's one of the world's premier experts on buying and financing small businesses acquisitions,

and he coaches more than 700 entrepreneurs all over the world to buy small businesses rather than starting one.

So Carl is chatting with us live from England this morning, a morning for us, afternoon

for him.

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