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 qualified buyers.

What's unique about what we do?

We take acquisition entrepreneurs through a process to give them strategic advantages when raising debt and equity capital, motivating internal and external talent, and sourcing, structuring and closing acquisitions. Entrepreneurs we worked with have created more than $8 billion in shareholder wealth.

Regardless of whether you're just starting your holding company or already generating tens of millions in revenue, a key part of our secret sauce is to execute a rollup strategy as a public entity. Suspend any initial skepticism and continue reading to understand why this works.

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 because of the increased transparency, trust and credibility. Sellers have a higher degree of comfort and confidence that an offer is real, can be financed and that a 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 equity dilution at all.

4. Public companies can attract acquisition financing and working capital faster and easier. In most cases, there's no amortization of debt and personal guarantees are not required.

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 profitable private companies can often be purchased for 3x to 4x SDE or EBITDA. Spend $4 million to purchase a business earning $1 million and as a private guy/company, it's still worth $4 million. As a publicly listed company, that same $1 million in earnings can be worth $8 million to $15+ million. There's a reason why public companies are valued significantly more than the equivalent private company. As a result, each acquisition can add millions of dollars in shareholder value.

Is this for you?

We're looking for entrepreneurs who are smart, growth-minded, experienced, coachable 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 prospect is someone who already has a business earning at least $500,000. However, we have also represented entrepreneurs who have experience buying, funding and building profitable companies. We provide entrepreneurs with a way to amplify their effort and accelerate their timeline, but we don't provide basic business training.

What does it cost?

You will generally need $20,000 to start the process and can reimburse yourself later. The rest of the cost can be raised from investors in your personal and professional networks.

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.