Find Exit AdvisorsNational advisor directory
Use this collection when you want to research firms listed as M&A advisors or as business brokers with M&A services. Start with your business, the kind of transaction you are considering, and the locations where you need support. The profiles show each firm's publicly stated representation, industries, coverage, and transaction ranges where available.
Office location is separate from engagement coverage: a firm based elsewhere may still serve your market. Use the directory filters to narrow your research, then check the profile's source links and review date. A missing transaction range or credential is unknown, rather than evidence of a fit.
If you are researching readiness or succession before choosing a transaction process, explore exit planners as well. Firm categories describe public positioning; individual firms may offer overlapping services. Confirm the scope directly with each firm. Explore exit planners.
Inclusion is not a ranking or endorsement. Profiles are compiled from public information and reviewed corrections. Read how profiles are prepared.
Ashland, NE
Business Brokers Corporation is a business advisory firm based in Ashland, NE providing Business Advisory and Marketing services.
Ray Elwood
Reviewed
Hiram, OH
Business Stewardship Group is a business advisory and brokerage firm based in Hiram, OH, led by Gary Burden, CEPA. The firm helps business owners build and protect value, prepare for succession or a sale, and navigate growth and transition through strategic advisory, valuation, operational improvement, and business transition support.
Gary Burden
Reviewed
San Juan, PR
Connelly Capital advises privately held business owners on acquisitions, divestitures, valuations, financing, and recapitalizations. Its sell-side work includes preparation, buyer identification, offer selection, diligence, and closing; buy-side work includes acquisition strategy and target evaluation. The firm describes an industry-agnostic approach and a team with operating, lending, and investing experience in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the United States, and Latin America. Its published contact office is in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
Francisco Uriarte
Reviewed
Laguna Hills, CA
Corporate Finance Associates is an international investment banking firm serving middle-market businesses. For over 70 years, CFA has advocated for owners restructuring a company through a sale, merger, acquisition, or recapitalization. Senior principals provide hands-on guidance to clients buying, selling, or recapitalizing a business, backed by a broader network. The firm offers sell-side and buy-side advisory and market value assessments across industries. This listing highlights its Laguna Hills, California office.
Mike Heydenrych
Reviewed
Richardson, TX
DBG Advisors is a business advisory firm based in Richardson, TX providing M&A Advisory, Value Acceleration and Business Valuation. The firm serves Manufacturing, Distribution & Service companies. The firm states: “companies with revenues ranging from $5 million to $65 million.”
Nolan Duck
Reviewed
Devens, MA
Diversified Business Advisors, LLC is a business brokerage and exit-planning firm serving owners and buyers across New England. The firm works across industries and provides business brokerage, exit planning, and valuations. Its typical business value range is $1 million–$5 million, and it handles both buy-side and sell-side representation.
Joshua Meltzer
Reviewed
Auburn, CA
ETime Solutions Business Sales is an Auburn, CA M&A advisory and business brokerage firm led by Leslie Horton, Founder & Owner. The firm provides business valuation, exit strategy, sell-side representation and strategic acquisition advisory, with additional CFO and financial-strategy support. Its experience includes manufacturing and industrial, construction, technology, distribution and professional services.
Leslie Horton
Reviewed
Minneapolis, MN
Growth Operators combines operational consulting with transaction advisory and exit readiness. Its services include financial diligence, quality-of-earnings work, integration planning, finance and HR support, and fractional or interim leadership for buyers, sellers, private equity sponsors, and operating companies. Its nextLEVEL assessment is used to prioritize value-creation work. The firm describes a middle-market operating-company focus of $25 million to $1 billion in revenue; that is not a deal-value range. Its office is in Minneapolis.
Joe Donahoe
Reviewed
O'Fallon, MO
IBA is a business advisory firm based in O'Fallon, MO providing business brokerage, sell-side advisory, business valuation, and commercial real estate services. The firm has experience in manufacturing, professional services, transportation and logistics, and distribution and wholesale.
Steve Denny
Reviewed
Dallas, TX
Integrus Partners is a Dallas sell-side M&A advisory firm whose founders describe prior experience acquiring companies for private-equity-backed platforms. It represents owners considering a PE-backed partnership, recapitalization, or full exit. Services include valuation and preparation, confidential marketing materials, targeted buyer outreach, deal negotiation, diligence management, and post-close transition support. Published sector coverage includes healthcare practices, business services, education, home services, professional services, and specialty consumer businesses.
Reviewed
Houston, TX
LINK Business Brokers & Advisors of Houston is a business advisory firm based in Houston, TX providing Business Brokerage, Sell-Side Advisory, and Business Valuation. Fernando Saldivia, President & CEO, leads the Houston office. The firm supports sellers through confidential marketing, valuation, due diligence, negotiation, and transaction coordination.
Fernando Saldivia
Reviewed
Paul Lonsford operates Sunbelt Prosper, a business brokerage serving the Prosper market. Sunbelt's official team page identifies him as owner and offers support for buying and selling businesses. The office provides business listings, acquisition search, exit-planning resources, and valuation services. Its published contact address is in McKinney, Texas. Sunbelt's franchise offices are independently owned and operated.
Paul Lonsford
Reviewed
Cincinnati, OH
Main Street Exit Partners | EXP Commercial is a business advisory firm based in Cincinnati, OH providing Business Brokerage, Sell-Side Advisory and Exit Planning.
Grady Collins
Reviewed
Raleigh, NC
MidStreet Mergers & Acquisitions provides business brokerage and M&A advisory for small and mid-sized businesses. Its website describes a confidential sale process and a business-valuation starting point for owners considering a transition. Published client examples include IT management, machining and fabrication, disaster restoration, marina operations, and landscape supplies. The firm lists offices in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina. These examples illustrate publicly described transactions and are not a claim that every industry or location is covered.
Jeffery Baxter
Reviewed
Sammamish, WA
Northwest Business Brokers LLC assists owners selling businesses and buyers seeking acquisitions. Its published services include business valuation, buyer representation, M&A support, transaction guidance, and commercial real-estate sales. The firm describes a team with business-law and real-estate experience alongside brokerage work. Its website provides current listings, completed-transaction examples, and separate buyer and seller educational resources. The published office is in Sammamish, Washington.
Joe Hochman
Reviewed
Columbia, SC
NXT Chapter Advisors offers business brokerage for businesses valued at $1 million to $5 million and M&A advisory for businesses valued at $5 million to $50 million. These are business-value criteria, not annual-revenue ranges. Its valuation service provides a Broker Opinion of Value using financial performance and comparable sales. For owners planning ahead, its exit-planning work includes a Value Gap Assessment and a roadmap to grow and protect business value before a transition. The firm's exit planning clients have $5 million to $50 million in annual revenue.
Adam Petricoff
Reviewed
Atlanta, GA
Oxford Highland Advisors is an M&A advisory firm based in Atlanta, GA, working with lower middle market business owners on the sell side. The firm provides M&A advisory insight throughout an owner's preparation process, then executes the exit transaction on the owner's terms and timeline. It is a sister company of Exit-Ready Solutions, which handles pre-sale value creation and readiness.
Matt Foley
Reviewed
Dallas, TX
Parkland Capital Partners is a Dallas-based sell-side and buy-side M&A advisor serving privately held companies nationwide. It emphasizes property management, business and home services, engineering, infrastructure, and other essential-service sectors. Services include valuation, acquisition sourcing, recapitalization, exit planning, and pre-transaction consulting. Its website describes founder clients with $1 million to $100 million-plus in revenue and $500,000 to $15 million-plus in EBITDA. These operating metrics are not transaction-value thresholds.
Austin Hartley
Reviewed
Tampa, FL
Stapleton Frost is an investment banking firm based in Tampa, FL providing buy-side and sell-side M&A Advisory, capital raising, M&A financing, and related services. The firm has experience in Healthcare, Technology, Financial Services, Business Services, Professional Services, Distribution & Wholesale, Real Estate, and Hospitality.
Mike Stapleton, AIF®
Reviewed
St Petersburg, FL
Structured Partners describes its service as M&A advisory available by referral only. Its public website provides this engagement criterion without a detailed service catalogue, industry focus, or transaction-size range. A prospective client should establish a referral and confirm engagement scope directly with the firm.
Kyle Bobinski
Reviewed
Nashville, TN
Jim Shaub, affiliated with Tennessee Business Brokers, offers M&A business brokerage and value-building advisory for small and mid-sized business owners. His published sale process covers consultation, valuation, confidential marketing, buyer screening, negotiations, diligence, and closing coordination. The separate value-acceleration service addresses owner dependence, leadership systems, operating stability, and financial performance before a future exit. The website identifies Nashville, Tennessee as headquarters and states that brokerage compensation is paid upon a completed sale.
Jim Shaub
Reviewed
Orange Beach, AL
TNT Business Brokers is a business brokerage based in Orange Beach, AL, led by Gene Townley, who started or acquired fifty-one businesses over thirty years before becoming a broker. The firm states it has sold 113 businesses worth $104 million since 2021 and that 74% of its listings since 2024 have sold. It charges no fee of any kind until closing and prices listings on what a lender will finance. Gene has received the IBBA Deal Maker Award every year since 2022.
Wyndee Townley
Reviewed
Nashville, TN
Owners of leading marketing, technology, and professional services companies trust TobinLeff to sell their businesses. We are an investment banking and M&A advisory firm guided by our values of always doing what’s right and what needs to be done to produce results. By combining our extensive network of strategic buyers and private equity partners with hands-on, end-to-end guidance and superior financial acumen, our clients realize outstanding outcomes — strong valuations with buyers whose values, culture, and vision align. Partners: David Tobin, James Beechinor-Collins, Bruce Bishop, Roy Page, Janet Tyler, Holt Vaughn. Offices: Pittsburgh, Nashville, New York, Detroit, Raleigh.
James Beechinor-Collins
Reviewed
Wimberley, TX
Trailhead Partners is a Texas-based lower middle-market M&A advisory firm serving business owners nationwide. The firm provides sell-side advisory, buy-side advisory, market valuations, internal buyout advisory, and mineral sales advisory for businesses generally between $5M and $100M in revenue. Its experience includes manufacturing and industrials, construction and building products, B2B services, and oilfield services.
Zach Whitt
Reviewed