Selling Your Business To Thesis
We Buy the Best Family-Owned Businesses in America
We are owners and operators who love rolling up our sleeves. We are constantly in the hunt to work with the best business owners in the country when they are ready to sell their business.
How we support sellers
We have been in your shoes selling a business and at the same time spoken to hundreds of other sellers. Our process is designed to clear and transparent.
Your management team gets us onsite from day one
After working with numerous organizations, we have learned how critical it is for a real person to be physically onsite with your core management team day one. We come to you (and your team), in most cases, physically relocating our families to your company’s locations post-acquisition.
Deals for us only work if they are win-win
We pride ourselves on living our core values of integrity and altruism, helping thy neighbor. You have our word – we are focused on creating deals that allow both sellers and our team to close the sale of your business with incentives aligned. We work with our sellers to create deal terms which are win-win. To ensure this approach, we only work in situations where the interests of all parties are aligned.
We focus on opportunities where our experience can drive material growth
We seek sellers who are excited about growing their legacy. You have worked hard as an owner-operator to build your business and we are excited to have the privilege to carry on and grow its legacy. Your management team will have direct access to our full team.
Selling your company can be exhausting
Look- we get it. Preparing documents for selling your business, working with your employees to ensure they are a part of the conversation, determining what you do after the sale can be exhausting. The list goes on.
As business owners who have sold businesses we know what this process can be like. We work with sellers to ensure they are prepared to enter the process and life post-closing. We’re proud to say we have a lot of direct experience across the entire timeline of a transaction and get excited about working with owners on every aspect of the deal from valuation to transition planning.
As business owners who have sold businesses we know what this process can be like. We work with sellers to ensure they are prepared to enter the process and life post-closing. We’re proud to say we have a lot of direct experience across the entire timeline of a transaction and get excited about working with owners on every aspect of the deal from valuation to transition planning.
We have invested in a number of different companies
Helping one of our sellers grow their company from 15 to 250 employees in 3.5 years
Doubling earnings for a portfolio company 12 months from engagement
Our time horizon is long. Very long.
We enter transactions focused on the long-haul. We seek companies in which we can work for the next generation. Stable business, repeatable cashflow, and a need for our backgrounds in growth strategy, M&A, and a management team that will (and has) always taken care of its employees. In summary, we are never focused on short-term “fix and flips” but instead, much longer term opportunities creating real equity value in respective transactions.
Sellers get to close quickly —
our process.
our process.
Have a conversation and assess if the business matches our capabilities
Review more financial and operational data and submit IOI (indication of interest)
Review a formal LOI with seller and work together on terms and execute document
Execute due diligence including
Close & relocate one of our team members to the Seller’s location
If you’re interested in selling your business or know someone who might be, please use the contact form below to start the conversation.
Contact UsFAQS
Are you a private equity firm? What do you invest in?
Similar to a private equity firm we have LPs that invest alongside us in our transactions. Our primary source of capital is structured in a way that would align us much more closely with a Family Office that runs a sister operation as an independent sponsor. This means that we periodically source debt and equity from external parties.
Our focus is to invest in cash-flowing businesses in the US that can be held for the long term. While we occasionally make use of debt when structuring investments we generally shy away from what would be traditional leveraged buyouts (LBO).
Our focus is to invest in cash-flowing businesses in the US that can be held for the long term. While we occasionally make use of debt when structuring investments we generally shy away from what would be traditional leveraged buyouts (LBO).
Are you a search fund?
No, we are not what would be classically defined as a traditional search fund. While a search fund is a type of investment vehicle that allows entrepreneurs to raise money to acquire and run a company whose vehicles are stand-alone entities.
We are similar to a search fund in that we have a pool of capital to acquire companies. But we differ materially in that we do not operate under any of the restrictive financial and time-bound characteristics of a fund.
We are similar to a search fund in that we have a pool of capital to acquire companies. But we differ materially in that we do not operate under any of the restrictive financial and time-bound characteristics of a fund.
How is the firm structured?
The firm is a partnership run by principals that recruit entrepreneurs based on a set of investment criteria they developed. Our partners have material ownership in any transaction they complete with us.
Are you making active investments?
Yes, we are actively making investments in US lower and middle markets.
Our investment criteria are detailed on the page for intermediaries and on the press & writing pages of this website.
Our investment criteria are detailed on the page for intermediaries and on the press & writing pages of this website.
Does every partner have experience running a company?
The principals in the firm have extensive operating experience and have run the companies they acquired as Presidents/CEOs. The majority of the firm’s partners have had extensive operating roles in some of the world’s most capable firms. We view investments through an operating and investing lens.
A seek to balance both operational experiences in a specific industry and investment experience so that we can provide valuable insights and guidance to investee firms.
A seek to balance both operational experiences in a specific industry and investment experience so that we can provide valuable insights and guidance to investee firms.
Are you growing the partnership?
Yes – our partnership is very unique in that we welcome new members. However, we are highly selective and turn away most candidates, not because they are incapable but because we are searching for specific characteristics that align with our business model. This screening also applies to the businesses we invest in.