Prepared. Positioned. At maximum value.
Exit Velocity Partners prepares owner-operated businesses for sale, then runs the transaction from the first buyer conversation to the wire.
One advisor, start to finish. Texas and the states around it.
A buyer underwrites what they can verify. Not what's true, and not what you know to be true after twenty-five years of running the place. What they can verify.
Add-backs without documentation get disallowed. A customer at 40% of revenue becomes a discount. A business that pauses when you take two weeks off becomes an earnout. None of that surfaces at closing. It surfaces in diligence, sixty days in, when the buyer has the upper hand and you have a deadline.
The decisions that change the number happen six to twenty-four months before a buyer ever sees the business.
Two ways to start
Ninety days inside the business, before it goes to market. We clean the financials, document the add-backs down to individual transactions, reduce the parts of the operation that only run because you're standing there, and install the systems that improve margin.
Fixed fee, credited in full against the success fee if we take the engagement to market.
The Sprint →The full process. Valuation opinion, financial book, confidential information memorandum, buyer list, market, letters of intent, diligence, close. Six to nine months, with one person running it and transaction counsel included in the fee.
Most clients start with the Sprint. Some don't need to.
Sell-side advisory →“Sellers rarely fire an advisor over a bad week. They fire one over silence.”
A written update every Friday, for the length of the engagement
An investment bank won't take a four-million-dollar deal, and on the rare occasion one does, the person who pitched you is not the person who runs it. A business broker will list the business and wait for the phone.
Exit Velocity Partners does neither. The same person who builds your valuation opinion writes the memorandum, calls the buyers, negotiates the letter of intent, and manages the lender who has gone quiet in week nine.
Who we work with
$1–8M
Enterprise value, with $300K to $2M of adjusted earnings
Three
Marketed verticals: industrial manufacturing, healthcare services, home services
Texas
Dallas–Fort Worth first, then Texas broadly and contiguous states
6–9 mo
Signed engagement to funded close, on a typical process
Exit Velocity Partners is Mauri Miller. Notre Dame Law School, thirteen years in M&A quarterbacking lower-middle-market transactions across manufacturing, healthcare, and home services, plus operating exposure inside private-equity-backed companies.
The credential that matters here is the transaction background. The technology is a tool.
From the blog
Five things a CPA or attorney should verify before sending a client to someone who sells businesses, starting with the federal M&A broker exemption most intermediaries have never read.
What a buyer's provider actually tests, why the working capital peg moves more money than the add-backs, and how to run the review against yourself first.
An add-back you cannot document is not just disallowed. It gets capitalized at your multiple, which is how a one-time expense turns into a seven-figure reduction in price.
Most owners who call are eighteen months out and not sure they're ready to say so out loud. That's the right time to call.
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