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Mountains Meet Lake

Five kinds of work, one underlying question.

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What would have to be true for this business to be worth more — and to need you less — three years from now?

Stewart Law Trust and Estate, Probate Administration, Real Estate Attorney, Real Estate Lawyer
Mountain

Operations & Turnaround

You are still the estimator, the closer, and the final approval on everything. We move decisions off the owner: roles, process, and numbers a manager can act on without asking.

Acquisitions & Exits

Buying, selling, or handing off to the next generation. What a lender or a buyer will underwrite is decided long before anyone signs an LOI.

Real Estate & Development

Owner-operators usually hold their real estate by accident. We treat the property as its own asset, and plan the next use of the capital before the closing, not after.

Public Incentive Financing

TIF, business district and enterprise zone designations, abatement, and state programs. Incentives are negotiated before a project is committed, not after the slab is poured.

Start with ninety minutes.

Tell us what the business does and what is keeping you in it. If we are the right help, we will say so. If we are not, we will say that too.

P: (618) 575-0184​

E: doug@ds5advisors.com

Serving the Metro East, Southern Illinois,

and the St. Louis metro

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