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As Principal Consultant of Business Transition Consulting, Rick specializes in finding solutions for the problems of owners of closely-held (owner-managed) businesses, Rick Riebesell works with business owners to focus on planning that creates wealth from ownership of a business interest. A consultant with a legal background, Rick has had a wide and varied business experience, including being a business owner, managing a retail store, selling cars, practicing law, and consulting. Maintaining a technical interest over his business career, he holds several Sophos cybersecurity certifications and is familiar with Barracuda device management and email threat protection software. Rick assists clients in creating strategic planning and business plans as well as searching for appropriate businesses, accomplishing investigations of businesses, and implementing acquisitions of businesses. Rick has extensive experience with nonprofit organizations and charitable giving. Rick's latest book is Implementing the Buy-Sell Agreement. This book is formatted to be quick and easy to read. It is a parsed treatment of a complex and difficult subject. It is designed to allow the reader, wanting to preserve the value of a business interest, to increase it, and pass the value to heirs, to understand how to make a good beginning of the process. Rick's earlier book, Now What?, deals with the situation of the owner of a profitable business who wishes to build wealth by deriving maximum value from the business. Rick's book written as a guide for advisors is Business Succession Planning - Forms and Practice Manual, published by Data Trace Publishing Company.