Southeast Business Exchange
Southeast Business Exchange presents itself as a source for buying and selling restaurants and bars, with business valuation assistance, buyer support, confidential listings, and publicly identified opportunities across parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi.
What stands out about Southeast Business Exchange
The current official website identifies Southeast Business Exchange as a division of Southeast Business Exchange Corporation and focuses on restaurant and bar sales, valuation assistance, buyer support, and confidential listing access. Public listings include restaurant, bar, pizzeria, catering, hospitality, and one land and marine construction opportunity. The cited listings page does not state a universal transaction-size threshold or provide buyer identities, closing dates, consideration, or detailed closing terms for sold examples.[1][2][3][4][5]
What does Southeast Business Exchange do?
Southeast Business Exchange’s current official website identifies itself as a division of Southeast Business Exchange Corporation. The site presents the operation as a source for buying or selling restaurants and bars and states that it specializes in restaurant and bar sales and business value assistance.
A 2010 SEC-hosted correspondence identifies Southeast Business Exchange and Reed Law as President. That historical correspondence describes the operation as a main-street business broker or intermediary; it does not establish the current composition of the firm.[1][2][3]
The current official site states that the firm helps owners sell restaurants and bars, assists buyers seeking restaurant and bar opportunities, and provides business valuation services.
The official about page states that Randy Shurbet provides guidance for selling, buying, or starting a restaurant or bar and describes experience in food distribution, restaurant ownership, catering, bars, commercial real estate, and business brokerage.[2][4]
Owners comparing intermediaries can also review Auxo’s business broker, M&A advisor and investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and M&A advisor fee guide.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Southeast Business Exchange?
An owner considering Southeast Business Exchange would be evaluating a broker whose current public offering includes restaurant and bar sale support, valuation assistance, buyer assistance, confidential listing access, and identifiable sold examples. The public process materials indicate that detailed business information may be provided under a non-disclosure agreement and that the agent acts for the company unless a written buyer-agency agreement provides otherwise.
Before engagement, the owner should confirm which legal entity will sign the engagement agreement and receive fees, the commission and expense structure, exclusivity and termination provisions, the proposed buyer-outreach process, the valuation methodology, current references, and the licensing or registration analysis applicable to the contemplated transaction.[1][2][3][5]
What are the current commission, retainer, minimum-fee, expense, exclusivity, tail, and termination provisions
What buyer universe and outreach process would be used for a non-hospitality business
What size transactions does Southeast Business Exchange handle?
The current official website identifies itself as a division of Southeast Business Exchange Corporation and presents restaurant and bar sale, purchase, and valuation assistance. Its listings page provides identifiable examples of active and sold opportunities across parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi.
A 2010 SEC-hosted correspondence identifies Reed Law as President of Southeast Business Exchange and presents the operation as a business broker or intermediary. The correspondence is historical and does not establish current firm-level regulatory registration.[1][2][3][5]
The public offering is centered on business brokerage for restaurant and bar sales, buyer assistance, business valuation, and access to confidential acquisition information.
The official listings page marks a Louisiana restaurant-bar opportunity, a $250,000 23-year-established Birmingham restaurant, and a well-established Gulf Coast Alabama pizzeria as SOLD. Those listings do not establish buyer identities, closing dates, transaction consideration, or other detailed closing terms.[2][5]
The official listings page publicly lists restaurants, bars, pizzerias, catering operations, hospitality venues, and related food-service opportunities. It also includes a land and marine construction opportunity in Coastal Alabama, so the cited listings do not establish a universal parent-firm sector mandate.[5]
What does Southeast Business Exchange publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The cited official listings page does not state a universal minimum or maximum revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, or transaction-size threshold for represented businesses.
The same listings page does not disclose buyer identities, closing dates, transaction consideration, or other detailed closing terms for the sold examples.
The cited official non-disclosure agreement does not publish a commission percentage, minimum fee, tail period, termination schedule, or other fee terms. The cited 2010 SEC-hosted correspondence does not establish current firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, or other regulatory registration status.[1][3][5]
The SEC-hosted correspondence identifies Reed Law as President of Southeast Business Exchange and presents the firm as a business broker or intermediary advocating for clarification of licensing and registration treatment for main-street business brokers.
The cited 2010 SEC-hosted correspondence does not establish Southeast Business Exchange’s current firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, or other regulatory registration status.[3]
The official listings page states that listings are exclusive to isellrestaurantsandbars.com and that access to each restaurant listing requires selecting and submitting a non-disclosure form.
The official non-disclosure agreement states that the agent may provide proprietary business information for evaluating a potential acquisition and that the information is confidential. It also states that the agent acts for the company rather than the prospective buyer unless the agent enters into a written agreement to act as the buyer’s agent.[1][5]
Questions to ask before hiring Southeast Business Exchange
Which legal entity would sign the engagement agreement and receive fees?
What are the current commission, retainer, minimum-fee, expense, exclusivity, tail, and termination provisions?
What buyer universe and outreach process would be used for a non-hospitality business?
What valuation methodology and comparable-sales data support the proposed asking price?
Can the firm provide current references and completed transaction examples with dates, sectors, and size ranges?
What current state or federal licensing, registration, or exemption analysis applies to the contemplated transaction?
Sources & research notes
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- SEC filing / regulatory record
- Services / capabilities
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