Our Services
Our investment advisors have strong knowledge bases and decades of concentrated experience in lower-middle market transactions. We combine deep learned expertise, streamlined and efficient transaction skills, and a wide network of industry focused strategic and financial partners all singularly focused on seller representation.
We’re ready to work with you on:
Sell-Side Advisory
We’ve spent the last 25+ years incrementally improving our processes while working on hundreds of sell side transactions in just about every industry. We’re dedicated to you and your team and will represent your interests with transparency and genuine integrity.
Buy-Side Advisory
Whether your goal is creating a platform organization for growth or adding “bolt-on” pieces to your current operational infrastructure, we’ll assist with determining your investment criteria and find opportunities that fit with our rifle approach.
Strategic & Capital Structure Advisory
It’s critical to balance risk and reward. Risk is what’s left over when you’ve thought of everything. Our team can assist and find those latent risks while exposing and highlighting both the positive benchmarks and the immediate and long-term growth opportunities.
Business Valuations & Opinions
Every business owner should know what their businesses are worth for a myriad of reasons. It’s a baseline from which all other opportunity develops. We’ll work with you to develop a “range of value,” along with proper forecasting, determining critical metrics for growth, and identifying any missing key business components.
Service Differentiators
- Business Consulting Services
- Strategic Consulting
- Liquidity & Exit Planning
Business Consulting Services
Define the Challenge
Identify funding needs, operational projections, additional staff requirements, or aligned partner introductions. Our goal is to maximize your business’s value while prioritizing your culture and team.
Develop Analytical Tools
Leverage our decades of M&A experience to immediately enhance business performance. Our analytics establish a baseline business value through diverse metrics, enabling us to determine forward objectives for your business.
Design Solutions
Avoid treating business design as an afterthought. Our experts ensure your processes not only address immediate challenges but also consider future ones. We translate design solutions into your business language, optimizing workflows for enhanced service and product delivery.
Execution
Following data gathering, resource identification, and process framework development, we ensure transparent communication throughout your organization. We continuously review progress, track metrics, and evaluate performance to keep your business on track.
Strategic Consulting
Business Model Strategy
Ensure your business model is executable and understood by the team. Overcome execution obstacles by collectively grasping the concept and strategy, streamlining implementation and execution.
Market Research
Access advanced research tools to maximize a seller’s benefit. Our industry expertise makes us resident experts on your business and industry by the time we go to market.
Growth Strategy
Focus on specific metrics and methods to drive business growth. Enhance process efficiencies, increase client loyalty, gain new customers, pinpoint your value proposition, and optimize team member production. Regularly measure and optimize overall business performance.
Customer Measurement & Analytics (Valuation)
Maximize growth potential by measuring customer profitability, reviewing inventory analyses, and mapping forecast vs actual performance. Leverage our experience to identify core practices boosting output and highlight areas needing attention.
Liquidity & Exit Planning
Liquidity Planning
We assess your cash flow needs, accurately value assets, and explore ways to generate additional income, providing comprehensive liquidity planning.
Estate Planning
Ensuring proper asset management during and after a lifetime, our thorough estate planning guarantees asset distribution, defines beneficiaries, and establishes decision-making pathways.
Selling a Business
Navigating the complexities of selling a business, we cover reasons, timing, documentation, valuation, buyer engagement, and manage financial, legal, HR, insurance, environmental, and taxation diligence.
Succession Planning
We strengthen organizations through long-term succession planning, identifying critical positions, skills, and employee development for business continuity. Our experience ensures universal standards are solidified.
Pre-Transaction Planning
We guide business owners through emotional pre-planning, protecting investments and reducing internal conflict. Our process includes contingency planning, tax exposure mitigation, and charitable and inheritance giving plans.
Business and Asset Valuation
Addressing the common question, “How much is our business worth?” we provide detailed metrics based on empirical data, recent sales, and industry benchmarks to establish a marketable value range.
Transaction Planning
Our dedicated planning ensures businesses are in optimal shape for the best price and terms. We address questions arising during marketing and the transactional phase, preparing thoroughly for M&A transactions.
Tax Mitigation Strategies
Navigating the complexities of taxation and reporting, we engage in early conversations about tax savings. From exit planning to maximizing deductions, our team helps create a critical component of a successful business exit strategy.
Exit Strategies
We eliminate guesswork in exit strategy discussions, offering foundational solutions. Options range from bringing on a partner for growth to internal sales, management changes, shutdowns, or going public.
Cash Flow Strategies
To stabilize and improve operations during cash flow crunches, we offer expertise in implementing new software, optimizing invoicing and receivables, exploring payment options, and negotiating better terms for enhanced customer viability.
Investment Criteria
With 40 years of experience, S&P Capital Partners delivers efficient and trustworthy M&A services to businesses in the lower middle market ranging from $5-150M in enterprise value.
$1m+
Target SDC
$5-150m+
Target Revenue
15+
Employees
Going into this process we had no idea what all was involved, however, I cannot recall a single problem. I am sure this was due to the professionalism of you and your staff. We would be happy to recommend your services to anyone buying or selling a business.
Business Owner at Light Manufacturing Business
Est. 1904 – Sold to Strategic Company
Industries We Serve
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 industry agnostic and have represented businesses in every major industry. More precisely, we’ll be the resident experts on your industry & specifically your business by the time we go to market.
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