The Daily Egg selected Synergy Business Brokers as the best business brokerage for executing mergers and acquisitions, recognizing our valuation expertise and ability to sell companies confidentially and efficiently.
Selling your company takes more than finding an interested buyer. You need an advisor who understands your business, protects your confidentiality, and helps you evaluate both the price and terms of a potential sale.
Synergy provides M&A advisory services for owners of profitable companies with annual revenues of $700,000 to $250 million or more. Founded in 2002, we combine the personal attention of a boutique M&A firm with an extensive network of potential buyers throughout the United States and internationally.
Our advisors guide you from the initial discussion of your company’s value through buyer outreach, negotiations, due diligence, and closing. There is no fee for our brokerage services until your business is sold.
The advantages of a boutique M&A firm
Our approach starts with understanding what you want to accomplish. The highest offer is important, but so are the amount paid at closing, the buyer’s financing, your responsibilities after the sale, and the future of your employees and customers.
We help you compare these considerations before choosing an offer. Our services include:
Industry knowledge: Understanding your business model, competitive strengths, and the factors that influence buyer interest.
Targeted buyer outreach: Identifying companies and investors with a reason to acquire your business.
Confidential representation: Controlling how information is shared as buyers move through the process.
Experienced negotiation: Helping you evaluate offers, negotiate terms, and address obstacles.
Support through closing: Working with you, the buyer, and your legal and accounting advisors to keep the transaction moving.
We represent the seller’s interests throughout the engagement.
Synergy provides M&A advisory services across specialized industries, including construction, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and technology. We also represent owners of engineering, transportation, and business services companies.
Each industry attracts buyers for different reasons. Understanding those reasons helps us communicate your company’s strengths and identify buyers with both a strategic interest and the financial capacity to complete a purchase.
Our experienced advisors work to understand your operations, customer relationships, financial performance, and growth opportunities before developing a strategy for your sale.
Examples of Synergy’s Completed Transactions
Our experience includes helping business owners attract competing offers, find strategic buyers, and work through complex transaction issues.
These transactions illustrate how targeted buyer outreach, competitive offers, and experienced transaction support can contribute to a successful sale. Explore more of our completed business sales and read client testimonials.
Our sell side M&A services represent the business owner throughout the transaction. We combine buyer outreach, negotiation, and transaction support with the personal attention of an experienced advisor.
1. Understand your business and goals
We begin with a confidential conversation about your company, financial performance, and priorities for a sale. We discuss whether our services are a good fit for your business and what you want to accomplish.
Company size can influence the buyer pool and transaction approach. Our guide to selling a business by revenue, cash flow, and EBITDA explains considerations for businesses of different sizes.
2. Evaluate a potential selling price
We review financial information, business strengths, growth opportunities, and relevant market evidence to recommend an asking price and discuss the factors that could affect offers.
Our role combines business brokerage and M&A advisory services. Learn more about the differences between business brokers and M&A firms and how those services relate to selling your company.
3. Prepare confidential marketing materials
We develop materials that explain the opportunity while protecting sensitive information. Initial advertising does not identify your company by name. Before receiving confidential details, prospective buyers must sign a confidentiality agreement and provide information about their qualifications.
4. Introduce buyers and negotiate offers
We coordinate discussions with suitable buyers and help you compare price, payment terms, financing, contingencies, and transition expectations. A higher headline price does not always mean a better overall offer.
5. Support due diligence and closing
After an offer is accepted, we help coordinate information requests and communication among the parties. We work alongside your attorney and accountant as the buyer completes due diligence and the parties negotiate the final agreements.
Our 15 step sales process explains these stages in more detail.
We are a premier M&A Advisory firm that can help you with the mergers and acquisitions process. We know what middle market business owners are looking for in a target company, what their acquisition strategy is, what types of due diligence they expect and how we can maximize your price through the right M&A deal. Every acquisition process is a little bit different so it pays to have an M&A company that has seen lots of scenarios for different M&A transactions. Having been in the Mergers & Acquisitions business a long time we have contacts with investment banks and buy-side M&A firms.
We work with owners in manufacturing, construction, engineering, distribution, healthcare, technology, transportation, and business services.
Each industry attracts buyers for different reasons. Understanding those reasons helps us explain your company’s value and identify suitable prospects.
For example:
A niche manufacturer could interest a larger company seeking specialized production capabilities, proprietary products, or access to new customers.
An engineering or business services firm could attract a buyer looking for experienced professionals, recurring client relationships, or a presence in a new geographic market.
A distributor could appeal to an acquirer seeking complementary product lines, supplier relationships, or a broader distribution network.
These examples illustrate why a buyer’s interest goes beyond current earnings. We work to understand the strengths of your company and communicate them to buyers for whom they matter.
For examples of completed transactions across our industries, explore our sold businesses.
Who could buy your company?
The right buyer needs both a reason to acquire your company and the financial capacity to complete the purchase. Depending on your business, potential buyers can include:
Companies in your industry seeking growth through acquisition.
Businesses in related industries looking to expand their capabilities.
Private equity firms and family offices.
Experienced entrepreneurs interested in owning and operating a company.
International companies seeking a presence in the United States.
Our marketing combines outreach to selected prospects, our database of potential buyers, and confidential advertising. We tailor the approach to your industry, company size, and circumstances.
We review buyer qualifications and interest before arranging introductions. Our goal is to create meaningful buyer competition while limiting the time you spend with unsuitable prospects.
Synergy does not charge an upfront brokerage fee or monthly retainer for selling your business. Our compensation is based on a success fee payable when the sale closes, as outlined in your engagement agreement.
This aligns our compensation with completing your transaction. We are selective about the businesses we represent and discuss our approach and fee structure before you engage us.
Your attorney, accountant, and other professional advisors charge separately for their services. Learn more about fees for selling a business.
Discuss the sale of your company confidentially
If you are considering selling your business, we can discuss your goals, explain our approach, and outline the information needed to evaluate a potential selling price.
You do not need to have every detail decided before starting the conversation. The first step is understanding your business and whether Synergy is the right advisor to represent you.
Request a Confidential Consultation or call 888-750-5950.