S&P’s Business Broker Services

Linking Financial and Legal Professionals

The best legal documents are the ones you sign, put on a shelf, and never look at again. We work to align our clients with the best legal minds for M&A transactions in the U.S. who understand our streamlined transactional objectives for legal documentation, in addition to the emotional toil the process will create for the seller. We expect thoroughness and efficiency which eliminate unnecessary obstacles on the way to closing and transition.

Lending options continue to tighten given inflation’s unpredictable volatility. Increased labor and vendor costs linger and continually compress profit margins. Lack of access to cost effective capital will limit business owner’s ability to re-invest and grow. Unless business owners are content with battening down the hatches and waiting out stretches of economic ebb and flow, they can look to alternative and innovative growth strategies. This is where M&A is a powerful tool for business owners to create lucrative re-capitalizations and long-term generational wealth.

Potential buyers can rely on our team to make introductions with world class lenders who specifically work on business transactions every day. Not all lenders are created equal and having an international banking presence does not mean they can get your transaction closed. Great lenders understand and manage personalities well. On occasion, they’re part time psychologists who’ll lend an ear during the most challenging transactional experiences. It’s not an easy task to buy or sell a business at any price point. There are variables, moving parts, and a lot of unknowns that get answered as we work through the process. We work diligently to make sure everyone involved in your transaction are highly skilled, empathetic, efficient, and professional.

Closing Oversight

Picking the right buyer is difficult, especially if you have multiple suitors in play at the same time. The highest price isn’t always the best bet in the context of total seller benefit. We’ve closed dozens of transactions where the highest price didn’t win. We educate business owners up front to pay close attention to good cultural matches. Ask yourself when you meet potential buyers if you can see yourself working with this group every day for a prescribed period of time post-closing. Do you share similar value systems? What’s their historical track record of retaining org charts, building out infrastructure, etc.? What do their platform groups or previous holdings say about them now?

At S&P Capital Partners we’ll go through what to expect and what questions to ask. Does the potential buyer appreciate what it took you and your team to build this operation? Can they lay out their vision for business transition and long-term growth opportunities? Have they built a strong balance sheet and a consistent performance record? Our team at S&P Capital Partners will take the guesswork out of the conversation and help create foundational solutions to maximize your business value prior to and at the transaction close.

Market Knowledge

We have access to the most advanced research tools in our industry and we know the metrics that maximize a seller’s total benefit. We’re experienced in just about every industry and will be the resident experts on your business, and your industry, by the time we go to market.

Skilled Professionals

Investment bankers must understand deal mechanics and nuance. You can’t have one without the other. The mechanics are black and white blocking and tackling. Nuance separates the most talented investment bankers from the masses. We understand the emotional ebb and flow this process will create and what obstacles are in our path. We’ll guide you and walk side by side from before the beginning to well after our mission is complete.

Industry Experience

Real world deal experience. We’ve spent the last 25+ years incrementally improving our processes while working on hundreds of sell side transactions in just about every industry.

Process Driven Outcomes

We’ve developed very specific and customized deal processes in every industry we’ve completed transactions. We don’t offer a cookie cutter assembly line process. Our team creates bespoke processes from valuation, to marketing, to acquisition target identification, to transaction, to close, and beyond. We don’t take shortcuts, we’re diligent and persistent, and our process is transparent from the very start.