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.
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.
How we support our sellers
Over many years and after speaking with hundreds of sellers, we have worked hard to set Thesis apart. The following includes a few of those highlights. But don’t take our word for it…let us know if you would like us to provide a referral.
- Your management team gets US physically onsite from Day 1.
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. - Your company will experience material growth with us.
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.
Over the last 10 years, we have invested in a number of different companies and worked with numerous owners to scale and grow their firms. A few of our favorite partnerships include:
- 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
We have defined and led a number of growth initiatives at multiple firms and are ready to do the same at your company.
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.
Typically, our timeline mirrors the following:
- 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
Finally, our network includes established vendors we have previously worked with across all diligence / closing needs. These partners are fully ready to engage and to meet an accelerated timeline toward closing.