Business Brokerage & M&A Advisory · Tampa, FL
Finish what you started.
Open the door to your next chapter.
You spent years building a business that runs. Deciding when and how to leave it deserves the same rigor you gave to building it. We are brokers who have sold our own companies, so we have made that decision ourselves.
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Two doors for sellers
Most owners are not ready to sell today. Almost none of them know it.
The gap between the price an owner expects and the price the market pays is usually built years before the listing goes live. So we give you two honest ways in: take the business to market now, or find out exactly where you stand and let us watch it with you until the number is right.
Option one
List Now
- Valuation and recast SDE / EBITDA analysis
- Confidential Information Memorandum and secure data room
- Confidential marketing to vetted buyer pools and lenders
- Offer negotiation, LOI, SBA and diligence management
- Closing coordination through the wire
Option two
Exit Readiness Program
- Full readiness assessment and indicative value range
- A prioritised gap list, in the order that moves price
- Quarterly review of financials, metrics and market conditions
- We vet unsolicited buyer approaches on your behalf
- A standing relationship, so you list on your timing, not theirs
Why owners come to us
A sale you only get to do once should not be a first draft.
Most owners sell a business exactly one time. The buyer across the table has done it before, has a lender who has done it before, and has an attorney who does it every week. Our job is to close that experience gap and to keep a confidential process confidential while we do it.
We work across nine states and a wide band of industries, but the work is the same everywhere: get the numbers defensible, get the story straight, get the right buyers in the room, and get you to a closing that holds.
We have sat in your chair.
Every broker at this firm has built and sold a company of their own. The late decision about whether the number is enough, the worry about what happens to the people who stayed, the diligence request that arrives at 9pm: those are ours as well as yours. It is the difference between a broker who has read about the process and one who has lived through it.
Defensible valuation
Recast earnings, normalised add-backs, and a range you can stand behind in diligence.
Real confidentiality
NDAs before information moves. A secure data room per listing, with access you control.
Vetted buyers only
Financial capacity and intent confirmed before a buyer sees the name of your company.
Deal management
LOI through SBA underwriting, landlord consents, and the hundred small items that sink closings.
The path
From first conversation to funds in your account.
A confidential conversation
No cost, no listing agreement. We ask what you own, what you want, and when you want it. Sometimes the honest answer is not yet, and we will tell you so.
Valuation and readiness review
Three years of financials, a recast of true owner earnings, and a value range with the assumptions written down beside it.
Packaging
A Confidential Information Memorandum that answers a buyer's questions before they ask, and a data room organised the way lenders read.
Confidential go-to-market
Blind profile first. Names and numbers only after an NDA and a capacity check.
Offers, LOI and diligence
We negotiate terms, not just price: earn-outs, escrow, working capital pegs, transition and non-competes.
Closing and handover
Lender coordination, closing checklist, and a transition plan that protects the business you are handing over.
The number on the offer is one term out of thirty. The other twenty-nine decide what you actually keep.
Typical sell-side engagements run six to twelve months from listing to closing, depending on size, lending and industry. We will give you a realistic timeline for your business at the first meeting, not an optimistic one.
See the full sell-side processWhere we work
Industries we know well enough to price.
Sector experience is not a marketing line. It is the difference between a buyer's diligence question you can answer and one that costs you three weeks and a price reduction.
- Professional services
- Legal & accounting
- Medical & healthcare
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Insurance
- Home renovation
- Arts, entertainment & venues
- Government contracting
- Veteran-owned businesses
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Find out what your business is worth, and what it would take to sell it well.
One confidential conversation. No listing agreement, no obligation.