Why Strategic-Acquisitions.com

Our job is to find buyers and sellers and to put deals together. Few business owners have ever sold or bought even one business in their lifetime. We have the expertise gained from many years of experience and literally hundreds of deal. We know how to find evaluate negotiate, and close a successful acquisition.

A few business are actively on the market. Most businesses are not for sale. The likelihood of finding a strategic acquisition among the limited pool of businesses actively seeking a buyer is quite small. What’s more, once a desirable business is actively for sale, it will attract several qualified buyers leading to significant competition among the suitors. There are a lot of business owners that aren’t actively looking to sell but would consider selling under the right circumstances.. We call these the gray area sellers. Our expertise is finding these gray area sellers for our clients, and leading them toward a win-win acquisition deal.

Most intermediaries work for business seller and do so in whole or part on a commission basis. The job of a sell-side intermediary is to locate several potential buyers for his client company and obtain the best price and terms possible for that seller.

A sell-side intermediary will, of course, work to sell the businesses he has been contracted to sell. This makes perfect sense at it is how he services his client and how he gets paid. We are working for you; not for the seller. Our job is to find companies that meet your acquisition criteria in terms of industry, size, geography, and any criteria that you specify. If you’re looking to acquire say, a publishing company in the Southeast, we won’t try to sell you recycling firm in the Midwest.

Probably the best argument in favor of using Merfeld & Schine is simply that we know how to identify and purchase businesses that are good strategic fits. A large part of our business is identifying and closing deals that are strategic acquisitions deals. We have been through the process many times so we know the pitfalls and potential problems that can be encountered. We know how to spot the strengths and weaknesses of a deal, how to capitalize on the strengths and, how to minimize the weaknesses. Simply stated, we know how to make a deal happen!