Aria Business Advisors
Aria Business Advisors LLC identifies its office in Rochester, Michigan, and states that it provides M&A advisory services across all 50 U.S. states. Its published focus includes privately held lower-middle-market companies, with separately stated enterprise-value, adjusted EBITDA / SDE, and revenue ranges that should not be treated as interchangeable.
What stands out about Aria Business Advisors
Aria publicly presents a full-service sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory model covering valuation, confidential outreach, negotiation, due diligence, financing support, and closing. It states a $1 Million to $250 Million enterprise-value range, a $500K to $25M+ adjusted EBITDA / SDE range, and a separate $1M-$250M revenue range on its seller-resource page. Owners should verify the engagement economics, legal entity, licensing, buyer-screening practices, conflicts policy, and comparable references before signing.[1][2][3][4][5]
What does Aria Business Advisors do?
Aria Business Advisors is identified as Aria Business Advisors LLC and lists an office at 127 E. 3rd Street, Suite D, Rochester, Michigan 48307. The firm presents itself as a business broker and M&A advisory provider for privately held lower-middle-market companies.
Aria states that it advises companies with between $1 Million and $250 Million in Enterprise Value and cites a $500K to $25M+ adjusted EBITDA / SDE range. A separate seller-resource page states a $1M-$250M revenue range. Those measures are distinct and should be evaluated separately when discussing scope.[1][2][5]
Aria publicly states that it provides sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory, business valuation, due-diligence management, confidential outreach, deal structuring, negotiation, and end-to-end transaction support.
Its stated sell-side process includes strategic planning, confidential marketing, qualified buyer outreach, and transaction guidance. Its stated buy-side process includes deal sourcing, opportunity evaluation, negotiation, and acquisition support.[3]
Owners comparing intermediaries can also review Auxo’s business broker, M&A advisor and investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and M&A advisor fee guide.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Aria Business Advisors?
For an owner considering a sale, Aria publicly describes a confidential, full-service sell-side process that includes preparation and valuation, buyer outreach, negotiation, due diligence, financing support, and closing. The firm’s published examples span retail, telecommunications, entertainment, food manufacturing, hospitality, health and wellness, industrial and manufacturing, food wholesale, and professional services.
Before signing, an owner should clarify the applicable engagement structure and fee schedule, the legal entity and individuals responsible for the engagement, any relevant professional licensing, the buyer-screening and conflicts processes, confidentiality controls, and references for comparable closed transactions. The stated enterprise-value, revenue, and adjusted EBITDA / SDE ranges should also be reconciled to the owner’s transaction perimeter.[2][3][4][5]
What is the exact fee structure, including any retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, termination rights, and tail period
Which legal entity signs the engagement agreement, and which individuals are responsible for regulated or licensed activities
Can Aria provide references and comparable closed transactions in the owner's sector and size range
What size transactions does Aria Business Advisors handle?
Aria’s listings page displays current opportunities, including an Asset-Backed Multi-Site Specialty Coatings Retailer priced at $1,295,000, a Mid-Atlantic General Contracting, Construction Management & Design-Build Firm priced at $4,300,000, and a Turnkey Restaurant with Asset-Backed Real Estate Portfolio priced at $1,650,000.
Its M&A services page identifies closed transactions including Surplus Outlet at $11,100,000 in July 2024, Metro Wireless at $4,500,000 in January 2022, Galaxy Lanes at $3,500,000 in December 2024, The Konery at $3,000,000 in March 2025, Sagano Restaurants at $2,700,000 in January 2026, and Anytime Fitness at $2,220,000 in May 2024. It also identifies Tool Detail Corp, Irish Isle Provision Co, and AFLS Corp as closed transactions at $1,760,000, $1,400,000, and $1,380,000, respectively.[3][4]
Aria describes both sell-side and buy-side transaction work. The published service description covers valuation, opportunity sourcing and evaluation, confidential buyer or seller engagement, negotiation, deal structuring, due diligence, financing support, and closing.[3]
Aria lists practices covering building and construction; trades and field services; professional and corporate services; financial services and insurance; healthcare and medical practices; technology, software and telecom; industrial and precision manufacturing; transportation and logistics; energy, utilities and infrastructure; hospitality, food and beverage; and consumer products, retail and lifestyle.
For its national M&A practice network, Aria identifies manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and business services as primary sectors.[2][4]
What does Aria Business Advisors publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The official listings page does not disclose seller identities, buyer identities, closing dates, or transaction consideration for the displayed current opportunities.
The official M&A services page does not provide buyer identity, financing terms, consideration structure, or engagement-fee terms for each listed closed transaction.
The official seller-resource page does not publish a universal success-fee percentage, minimum fee, tail period, termination schedule, or standard engagement agreement.[3][4][5]
The official website identifies the business as Aria Business Advisors LLC. Aria states that its advisors are IBBA-accredited and describes in-house CPAs, legal professionals, and capital advisors supporting valuation, due diligence, deal structuring, and transaction execution.
The official contact page does not state a firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, securities, or state professional-license registration, registration number, or regulator. This statement is limited to the official contact page.[1][2][3]
Aria states that its transaction process includes discovery and strategic planning, business preparation and valuation, buyer and seller engagement, negotiation and deal structuring, due diligence, financing support, and closing.
Aria also states that prospective buyers are vetted for financial capability and must execute a legally binding bilateral NDA before receiving a Confidential Information Memorandum.[2][3]
Questions to ask before hiring Aria Business Advisors
What is the exact fee structure, including any retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, exclusivity, termination rights, and tail period?
Which legal entity signs the engagement agreement, and which individuals are responsible for regulated or licensed activities?
Can Aria provide references and comparable closed transactions in the owner's sector and size range?
How are buyer financial capability, financing certainty, conflicts, and strategic fit verified?
Which valuation metric and transaction perimeter will be used where the published materials reference enterprise value, revenue, EBITDA, or SDE?
What information is shared before and after NDA execution, and how are confidentiality breaches handled?
Sources & research notes
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