Business Transition Strategies (BTS) is a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) firm focused on the lower-mid market. We provide buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory services to private companies, generally with revenues between $2 million and $20 million mostly within New England and New York. Our range of services are designed to help owners prepare and complete a transfer. With offices in New Hampshire and Massachusetts we are well positioned to serve New England and beyond.
Our advisors work as a team bringing a diversity of perspectives and talents to each engagement. Our team includes business owners, high level managers, sales professionals, business consultants and finance experts. We have been where you are now and draw upon over three decades of experience to help you. Our emphasis is on generating the best return on investment for owners. Our team members also can help owners prepare for the transition down the road, and make changes that will enhance values.
Our process involves actively, and confidentially, analyzing your operation and then marketing it. We are not passive with our sales efforts; we research and identify prospects, and actively approach them directly. We also utilize web-based deal platforms and our own network of private equity firms, family offices, development offices as well as a database of highly capable individual buyers.
We develop a professionally prepared, confidential business review package, detailing the company’s operations, which will be used to attract buyers. We serve as the intermediary between you and prospects, and manage the entire sales process, beginning to end. Our team works effectively and collaborates closely with other advisors who represent the company, including attorneys and accountants. Many of our engagements are the result of referrals from other professionals.
Selling your company now provides the resources to achieve your goals. In some cases, a transaction can provide the owner a transition period between the all-consuming role of owner and retirement by still staying involved with the former business in a limited or advisory role. Whether you are selling to enjoy retirement, pursuing a recapitalization for growth or organizing a management buyout so your team can pursue its growth vision, BTS can advise you through the process.
Not ready to sell now? Our team will help you identify and focus on issues that will maximize the value of your company when the time comes. In the process, these changes generally enhance operations and make ownership more enjoyable.
BTS continues to actively engage business owners across the region who are interested in selling. We welcome a chance for a conversation, whether the goal is to sell now or sometime in the future. If you would like to begin the conversation, contact us.
BTS News
Manufacturer Sold and New Owner Expands It
BTS served as advisor in the sale of PlasTech Machining Fabrication, Inc. to DelCam Holdings in 2020...the company has grown substantially, doubling employment and adding capacity to boost future prod
How M&A Will Respond to Next Recession
The takeaway for business owners: Get back to basics. Don’t worry about hyper growth. De-risk your company as much as possible.
Perception vs Reality with Small Businesses
Sometimes the economic picture on the news seems inconsistent with what is happening for many business owners. Nearly every owner we speak to is out straight.
NH-Based Techinical Manufacturing Company Sold
Hampshire Controls has a bright future with new ownership. The company was recently sold by Diane Rush, owner and president, to Pillar Imaging and its leader Dr. Michael Pilon.
Be Ready When You Are Ready
When a business owner says it’s time to sell, I ask, “How fast do you want to be out?” The answer I hear most is, “Yesterday.” But sellers underestimate how long the process takes.
Looking at a Sale Through the Right Lens
Sometimes our vision about the future is blurry because we aren’t considering the whole picture but only parts of it.
5 Deal Points from the Trenches
Today I work with clients of Business Transition Strategies who are implementing Growth Through Acquisition strategies. Here are a few observations from working on a wide variety of projects.
Tax Changes Could Hurt Net Proceeds
Changes proposed to the capital gains tax suggest they may need to get 30% more in a transaction in the future just to net the same value they would get today.
Good Ideas From Shark Tank Deal
One of my colleagues in Cornerstone Alliance was front and center in a recent Shark Tank exercise. A business that had been sold was put in front of four potential buyer groups.
Buyer Trends in Lower Mid-Market
Other businesses are a significant market for companies being sold within the lower mid-market.
Case Studies
Precision Machining Company
Initially, liquidation was a serious consideration. It would offer a quick exit but would hurt loyal employees and disrupt the customers who had come to rely on its quality production.
Green Product Company
Our client owners could dig in for the long haul…However, this would take five years or more. Owners simply lacked the horsepower to do it.
Water Purification Company and Young Buyers
Owners decided they wanted to retire. They also wanted to be fair to the staff who had been loyal to them. Could the company be sold, the staff retained and the facility remain in use?
Magnetics Company with High Profile Customers
(T)he manufacturer would need to focus on growing EBITDA to capture interest from major strategic buyers and achieve a higher multiple of earnings.