Investment Teams and Buying a Business
Buyer Investment Criteria
Whether your goal is creating a platform organization for growth or adding “bolt-on” pieces to your current operational infrastructure, S&P Capital Partners will work to understand your investment criteria and find opportunities that fit your strengths and core skill sets with our targeted buyer opportunity engagement approach.
Lending and Growth Capital
Lending options continue to tighten given inflation’s unpredictable volatility. Increased labor and vendor costs continually compress profit margins. Lack of access to cost-effective capital limits a business owner’s ability to re-invest and grow. It’s vital to immediately understand your financing options to identify potential lenders you don’t know so that you’ll be properly capitalized when it’s time to batten down the hatches and wait out stretches of economic uncertainty.
In addition, the team at S&P Capital Partners can help identify alternative financing partners and innovative growth strategies. This is where M&A is a powerful tool for potential business owners to create lucrative re-capitalizations and develop long term growth initiatives.
Transferable Skills
Before you begin the search for your perfect business opportunity, understand what you know, what you don’t, and what you need to learn in short order. What resources do you need as a business owner to facilitate growth? What transferable skills do you bring to a new business? What level of operational output does a business opportunity need to generate? What are the immediate and long-term growth opportunities out there in the markets in which you’re familiar? It’s especially important that first time buyers recognize their own limitations and understand the opportunities available for growth strategies.
Finding the Right Opportunity
Meeting business owners and taking the steps necessary to facilitate proper due diligence on a business opportunity will generate an array of questions. Can you see yourself working with this group in the trenches every day post-closing? Do you share similar value systems? What’s their historical track record of retaining org charts, building out infrastructure, etc.? What do you or your team bring to this business that will identify and accelerate growth opportunities?
The firm’s approach to help me, coupled with their ability to listen to what I needed was such a refreshing idea that it was hard to believe at first. As we worked together over the months that followed, it became obvious that they were concerned about my welfare.
Business Owner/Founder at Utility Construction Services Business
Southeastern United States
Strong Foundational Growth
When provided the proper guidance and capital necessary to facilitate growth, small and lower middle market businesses can become major enterprises beyond their current size and scope. Besides capital for growth, your team should immediately strengthen a business acquisition with professional relationships and resources, along with access to new networks of customers, clients, suppliers, lenders, and infrastructure upgrades. The quality of available resources and processes should improve immediately.