Acquivest Financial
Acquivest Financial Group, also presented as Acquivest M&A Advisory, advises businesses on buying, financing, valuing, growing, and selling. Its public industry coverage includes building products, business services, construction-related companies, consumer industrial companies, logistics and transportation, and medical-related companies.
What stands out about Acquivest Financial
Acquivest Financial publicly describes a seller-side M&A process covering assessment, valuation, confidential marketing, buyer outreach, negotiation, diligence support, and coordination with legal and accounting advisers through closing. Public sources also identify buy-side advisory, valuation, and acquisition-related work. Owners should verify current engagement criteria, contracting entity, fees, conflicts, and firm-level regulatory status directly.[1][2][3][4][12][13][14][15][17]
What does Acquivest Financial do?
Acquivest Financial Group, also presented as Acquivest M&A Advisory, is an M&A advisory firm headquartered at 237 S. Westmonte Dr., Suite 111, Altamonte Springs, Florida 32714. Jonathan Molayem founded Acquivest in 2004.
The firm’s portfolio page says it advises family businesses, entrepreneurs, and executive teams on buying, financing, valuing, growing, and selling businesses. Jonathan Molayem’s biography states that he and his team have led and transacted over $1 billion in total deal volume.[1][2][4]
Acquivest describes a seller process that includes pre-sale business assessment, valuation, preparation of confidential marketing materials, buyer identification and outreach, negotiation, due diligence support, and coordination with legal and accounting advisers through closing.
The firm also publicly describes business valuation, research, and analysis services, along with buy-side advisory and assistance with buying, financing, and selling businesses.[3][4]
Owners comparing advisory firms can also review Auxo’s M&A advisor vs. business broker vs. investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and sell-side advisor evaluation framework.
Published criteria: Two official Acquivest references publish different revenue thresholds: one describes service to businesses below $150 million in revenue, while an October 2025 article identifies the adviser as serving businesses below $100 million. Current criteria should be verified directly.[12][13]
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Acquivest Financial?
An owner evaluating Acquivest can assess a publicly described process centered on valuation and preparation, confidential buyer marketing, buyer outreach, negotiation, diligence support, and coordination with professional advisers through closing. The firm publishes experience across several sectors and identifies transaction activity involving dealerships, healthcare, software, logistics, construction-related companies, and consumer industrial businesses.
Direct diligence is warranted on the current revenue threshold, the legal entity signing the engagement, firm-level regulatory status, fees and engagement provisions, conflicts, buyer-screening and outreach practices, and recent closed transactions and references in the owner’s sector. The two published revenue thresholds should be reconciled before an engagement is evaluated.[2][3][5][7][8][9][10][12][13][17]
Which legal entity will sign the engagement letter and receive fees, and how does that entity relate to Acquivest, JONMOL CORP, and Transact Capital Partners LLC
What are the upfront retainer, success-fee formula, minimum fee, tail period, expense policy, exclusivity, and termination provisions
What size transactions and clients does Acquivest Financial focus on?
Acquivest identifies building products, business services, construction-related companies, consumer industrial companies, logistics and transportation, and medical-related companies as industry areas.
Its published examples include marketing and specialty consulting services; engineering, procurement and contracting companies, materials producers, distributors, retailers, and installers; transportation equipment and niche transportation; and medical billing, revenue services, and women’s health. The firm also identifies software and technology and multi-site healthcare advisory experience through its team biographies.
Acquivest states that it has assisted on five business-services acquisitions, completed five acquisitions and two capital raises in construction-related areas, closed 10 consumer-industrial deals and one capital raise, assisted on three logistics and transportation transactions, and closed two medical-related deals.[2][5][6][7][8][9][10]
- Acquivest announced that it served as sell-side adviser to the Fulton family in the sale of BMC Boats in Longwood, Florida, to Paul and Michael Veracka.
- An official announcement states that Jon Molayem and Robert Cross acted as financial advisers to Tuffy in Mavis Tire Express Services Corp.’s acquisition of Tuffy Tire & Auto Service Centers, described as effective December 27, 2021.
- The official Transactions archive displays a July 2021 graphic stating that Champions Honda Kawasaki was acquired by Sky Powersports.
The BMC Boats announcement does not state transaction consideration or deal structure. The Mavis-Tuffy announcement states that transaction terms were not disclosed.[14][15][16]
Acquivest publicly describes seller representation, buy-side advisory, business acquisitions, valuation, capital-raise experience, and exit-transition planning. Its seller process includes outreach to individual, industry, and private-equity buyers where applicable, followed by negotiation and diligence support.
Two official references use different revenue thresholds for the businesses Acquivest serves: below $150 million in one announcement and below $100 million in an October 2025 article. The current threshold and any other financial or transaction criteria should be confirmed directly.[2][3][12][13]
What does Acquivest Financial publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The cited Services page does not publish fee percentages, retainer amounts, minimum fees, success-fee mechanics, tail periods, termination provisions, or standard engagement terms.
The cited BMC Boats announcement does not state transaction consideration or deal structure. The cited Mavis-Tuffy announcement states that transaction terms were not disclosed. The cited FINRA BrokerCheck report does not establish Acquivest’s firm-level broker-dealer or investment-adviser registration status.[3][14][15][17]
A FINRA BrokerCheck report for Jonathan Molayem lists JONMOL CORP, doing business as Acquivest, as an investment-related outside business activity and separately identifies Transact Capital Partners LLC as unregistered M&A advisory and consulting.
The cited BrokerCheck report is a person-level record and does not establish Acquivest’s firm-level broker-dealer or investment-adviser registration status. Owners should identify the legal entity that would sign an engagement and clarify which services it would provide.[17]
Acquivest’s public seller process emphasizes confidentiality, valuation and preparation, targeted outreach to individual, industry, and private-equity buyers where applicable, negotiation, diligence support, and coordination with legal and accounting advisers through closing.
The published process describes activities and service stages but does not establish specific engagement economics or contractual terms.[3]
Questions to ask before hiring Acquivest Financial
Which legal entity will sign the engagement letter and receive fees, and how does that entity relate to Acquivest, JONMOL CORP, and Transact Capital Partners LLC?
What current revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, geographic, or sector criteria determine whether Acquivest accepts an engagement?
What are the upfront retainer, success-fee formula, minimum fee, tail period, expense policy, exclusivity, and termination provisions?
Which recent transactions in the owner’s sector were closed, and can Acquivest provide seller references for comparable engagements?
How are individual buyers, strategic or industry buyers, private-equity buyers, and financing sources screened and contacted for a seller engagement?
Are there affiliated investment, brokerage, lending, real-estate, or portfolio activities that could create conflicts for a proposed engagement?
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