A founder-focused guide to the accounting firm buyer landscape, including strategic CPA firms, private equity-backed platforms, CAS and outsourcing buyers, wealth platforms, independent operators, and how each buyer type evaluates valuation, diligence, structure, and transition risk.
A founder-focused guide to private equity in accounting firms, including why sponsors buy CPA practices, what PE-backed platforms value, how platform versus add-on roles affect valuation, and what owners should expect around diligence, rollover equity, earnouts, transition, and post-close change.
A practical buyer-underwriting guide to accounting firm M&A diligence, including how acquirers test client retention, partner dependency, recurring revenue quality, staffing depth, normalized EBITDA, QoE adjustments, and the deal-structure consequences that affect cash at close, earnouts, holdbacks, and seller proceeds.
A founder-focused guide to MSSP M&A, including why cybersecurity-focused MSPs attract premium buyers, how acquirers underwrite recurring security revenue, security attach, SOC/MDR economics, incident risk, compliance readiness, and what founders can do to improve valuation confidence before going to market.
A founder-focused guide to private equity in MSPs, including why sponsors buy managed service providers, how platform-and-add-on strategies create value, what PE buyers underwrite, and how rollover equity, earnouts, working capital, and seller proceeds affect transaction outcomes.
A founder-facing guide to who buys MSPs, how strategic acquirers, private equity-backed platforms, cybersecurity buyers, telecom/cloud buyers, family offices, and independent sponsors evaluate MSP acquisitions, and how sellers should position the business before going to market.
A founder-focused guide to selling an MSP business, including valuation preparation, buyer targeting, diligence readiness, LOI comparison, earnouts, rollover equity, working capital, and the steps that improve price and certainty of close.
A buyer-underwriting guide to MSP business valuation, including how normalized EBITDA, recurring revenue durability, retention, churn, customer concentration, PSA/RMM maturity, deferred revenue, working capital, and deal structure affect what a managed service provider is worth.
A buyer-style guide to estimating what a marketing or digital agency may be worth, including normalized EBITDA, agency valuation multiples, revenue quality, client concentration, churn, owner dependence, and how enterprise value translates into seller proceeds.
A buyer-focused guide for founders preparing to sell a digital marketing agency, including sale timing, buyer readiness, revenue quality, client concentration, founder dependence, diligence preparation, offer structure, and the operational fixes that improve dealability before going to market.