Full exit
You are ready to be done. We sell the company, negotiate the transition, and leave you with a clean close.
M&A · Sell-side
Sell to private equity and the whole market.
A business broker works the two or three buyers he already knows, one at a time. We map the market, take it out together, and negotiate against a real set of bids. A banker owns the deal. Software does the work that used to take a floor of analysts.
[The deal]
One seller. Every buyer who would actually pay.
Wall Street will not staff a company this size. The alternative has been a broker. The price you get is the price of whoever was left in the room. We put private equity, strategic acquirers, family offices, search funds, and independent sponsors in that room at the same time.
The mandate
Sell-side M&A
Company size
$1M–$100M revenue
Who hires us
The owner
What we run
A competitive sale
[The outcome]
Three ways a sale ends.
Majority sale
You sell control, take meaningful liquidity, and keep running the company beside a new partner.
Divestiture
A division no longer fits. Sold on its own, it is worth more than it is worth inside.
[The buyers]
Who buys a company this size.
Search funds and independent sponsors are buyers on a sale. When one of them hires us to finance a company they are buying, that work lives under Buy a business.
Private equity
Funds built to buy and hold companies in this revenue band.
Strategic acquirers
Operators buying a competitor, a territory, or a capability.
Family offices
Long-hold capital that does not need to exit on a fund clock.
Search funds
A searcher buying one company to operate. ETA, when the search is the path in.
Independent sponsors
A sponsor who brings the deal and raises the equity deal by deal.
International buyers
Groups entering the US, or extending a footprint they already have.
Is this business brokering?
It is sell-side M&A for companies a bulge-bracket bank will not cover. A broker shops a short list one name at a time. We run a competitive process across the buyer market, with a banker on the deal and software doing the volume.
Do search funds and independent sponsors bid on your sales?
Yes. They are buyers. They are also clients when the mandate is the financing of an acquisition they are leading — that is a different page.
Can I sell part of the company and stay?
Yes. A majority sale is one of the three outcomes on this page, beside a full exit and a divestiture. The buyer market changes with the outcome. The process does not.
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