Create significant wealth by acquiring profitable private companies....

In the United States (and other markets), many business owners are in their 60’s, 70’s and older. Their kids aren’t interested in the family business. Their grandkids generally don’t have the background, skill, capital or attention span to run the business. As a result, there are tens of thousands of profitable businesses for sale and relatively few potential buyers.

There are very significant advantages to going public and then making acquisitions:

1. Business brokers are more likely to show businesses for sale because the trust, credibility, and transparency of being a public company generally means the entrepreneur has a better chance of closing a deal, something business brokers happen to care a lot about :)

2. Business sellers prefer dealing with public companies for the same reasons noted above. They have a higher degree of comfort and confidence that an offer is real and that a proposed transaction will close.

3. Business sellers are often willing to be more flexible on acquisition terms, including accepting stock, warrants, preferred shares, notes, and cash payments over time. Our clients have purchased businesses on unbelievable terms that were only possible because they were publicly listed. Sometimes, without any dilution at all.

4. Public companies can attract acquisition financing and working capital faster and easier.

5. Public companies find it easier to attract a highly qualified board of directors, a strong advisory board and senior level executives, all of whom are positively influenced by stock option plan participation.

6. Public companies are typically valued at 10x to 15x earnings (or more) while private companies can often be purchased for 2x to 4x SDE or EBITDA. Let's say you spend $4 million to purchase a business earning $1 million. As a publicly listed company, that $1 million in earnings can be worth $8 million to $15+ million. Each decent size transaction can add millions in shareholder wealth.

How can you capitalize on the opportunity?

If you haven't already done so, identify a sector that's ripe for consolidation, form a team to execute a rollup strategy, raise capital, take your holding company public (yes you can, bear with us) and acquire profitable companies. Working with us, you'll be able to do all of this efficiently and effectively, while retaining substantially more equity in your holding company. We provide significant support and coaching. Our proven strategy has already been used by other acquisition entrepreneurs to create more than $8 billion in shareholder value.

Is this for you?

We're looking for entrepreneurs who are smart, growth-minded, experienced and are actively acquiring profitable private companies, or want to be better positioned to do so. People who have excelled at acquisition entrepreneurship have typically been in C-Suite positions for several years, have a large personal and professional network, have been point person on one or more acquisitions, and have been involved in raising debt and/or equity financing.

Our ideal candidate is someone who already has a business earning at least $300,000 or who has experience buying, funding and building profitable companies. Our services provide entrepreneurs with a way to amplify their effort and accelerate their timeline, but we don't provide funding or basic business training.

What does it cost?

You can generally start the process for $25,000 or less. If you don't have $25,000 or access to it, this process isn't for you. The rest of the cost and capital to acquire your next business, can be raised in private placements from investors in your personal and professional networks, or through advertising, who want to own stock before your public listing.

Contact us if you're an entrepreneur that has the background, skill and expertise necessary to execute at scale, and are ready to build a much larger and more valuable business!

Who will I be speaking with?

Joel Arberman has been a partner of a 700-person investment banking firm, institutionally ranked sell-side analyst, buy-side analyst for two multi-billion-dollar asset management firms and has independently taken seventeen companies public. He has facilitated IPOs, direct listings and reverse mergers in the United States & Canada that helped entrepreneurs scale their business, acquire profitable companies, and raise debt & equity capital, while creating billions of dollars in shareholder value. 

*  We don't represent companies that harm animals.
** We don't represent companies who have an officer, director or 5% shareholder that's been convicted of any felony, any regulated industry crime (e.g. securities, banking, insurance, etc.) or any crime of moral turpitude. Open cases will need to be favorably resolved before we'd consider engaging.