Arx Business Brokers
Arx Business Brokers provides seller-only business brokerage and M&A advisory services from Oregon offices in Bend and Lake Oswego. It states that it serves business owners nationwide, targets companies with $1M-$25M in sales or revenue or more than $300K in EBITDA or cash flow, and uses a success-fee-only model.
What stands out about Arx Business Brokers
Arx Business Brokers publicly presents a seller-only model covering valuation, buyer outreach, negotiation, due diligence, and closing. It states that it targets businesses with $1M-$25M in sales or revenue, or more than $300K in EBITDA or cash flow, and may use either a priced listing or a competitive bid or auction strategy.[1][2][3][4][6]
What does Arx Business Brokers do?
Arx Business Brokers, also branded as Arx Brokers, is a sell-side business brokerage and mergers-and-acquisitions advisory firm based in Oregon, with offices in Bend and Lake Oswego.
The firm states that it represents sellers exclusively and does not represent buyers in the same transaction. Its stated services include valuation, buyer outreach, negotiation, due diligence, and closing support.[1][2][4]
Arx publicly states that it manages valuation, buyer outreach, negotiation, due diligence, and closing for business sales. It offers free initial business evaluations led by a Certified M&A Professional with CPA and Certified Financial Valuation Analyst support.
The firm states that it conducts direct outreach to 250 or more targeted buyers per engagement, including strategic acquirers, private equity firms, competitors, and qualified individual buyers.[2][3][5]
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 Arx Business Brokers?
Owners evaluating Arx can examine its seller-only representation model, success-fee-only structure, target range, confidential staged disclosure process, and direct outreach to targeted buyers. The firm also states that it may use either a priced listing or a competitive bid or auction strategy, depending on the business and its strategic value.
Before engagement, sellers should verify the Oregon licensing particulars, the complete engagement agreement, fee calculation, termination and tail provisions, and the dates and economics of representative transactions. The official sell page does not disclose those transaction details, and the official process page does not publish a complete engagement agreement, termination schedule, or tail-period provision.[2][4][5][6]
What Oregon license type and license number cover the firm's brokerage activities, and which legal entity and individual licensees are responsible
Can Arx provide dated, anonymized transaction references showing buyer type, enterprise value or other consideration, financing structure, and seller proceeds
What exact success-fee percentages, minimums, discounts, expenses, termination rights, and tail-period provisions apply
What size transactions does Arx Business Brokers handle?
Arx identifies Setareh Biotech, Cascade Cottons, and Aklin Vegetation Management as representative client or transaction examples. It also describes a biotech competitive-bid transaction in which it contacted approximately 350 strategic buyers and competitors, received six formal offers, and states that the winning bid was 50% higher than the next-best offer and double the original financial valuation.
Separately, Arx states that it sold a small SaaS business by auction and received six bids within 10% of one another.[4][8]
Arx states that it may recommend either a priced listing or a competitive bid or auction strategy depending on the business and its strategic value. Its stated process includes confidential buyer outreach, negotiation, due diligence, and closing support.
The firm states that its fees are success-fee-only, with no upfront fees, retainers, or monthly charges.[2][4]
Arx’s Oregon market page identifies active or targeted sectors including home services and specialty trades, healthcare and senior care, business services, transportation and logistics, niche retail and consumer services, specialty manufacturing and industrial, education and training, auto services and collision, facilities and property management, food and beverage manufacturing and distribution, environmental services and waste management, and insurance and financial services.[7]
What does Arx Business Brokers publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The official sell page names Setareh Biotech, Cascade Cottons, and Aklin Vegetation Management but does not disclose transaction dates, consideration amounts, buyer identities, or detailed deal structures for those examples.
The official process page describes the sale process and success-fee model but does not publish a complete engagement agreement, termination schedule, or tail-period provision.
The official evaluation page describes three valuation reference points and the evaluation process but does not publish the underlying valuation report methodology, engagement-specific assumptions, or client-level valuation results.[2][3][4]
Arx publicly presents itself as a seller-only business brokerage and M&A advisory firm. Its FAQ states that the firm is fully licensed in Oregon in the context of business brokerage and associated real estate transactions.
The official homepage does not identify the applicable license number, license type, issuing authority, or named licensee.[6]
Arx describes a confidentiality process using code names, nondisclosure agreements, buyer financial vetting, and staged disclosure before the seller’s identity and detailed information are shared.
The firm states that it may use either a priced listing or a competitive bid or auction strategy and that it represents sellers exclusively in the transaction.[2][4]
Questions to ask before hiring Arx Business Brokers
What Oregon license type and license number cover the firm's brokerage activities, and which legal entity and individual licensees are responsible?
Can Arx provide dated, anonymized transaction references showing buyer type, enterprise value or other consideration, financing structure, and seller proceeds?
What exact success-fee percentages, minimums, discounts, expenses, termination rights, and tail-period provisions apply?
How are real estate interests handled when the operating company owns or leases property?
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