Duran Advisors
Duran Advisors is a credentialed sell-side M&A and exit-planning practice headquartered in Metairie, Louisiana. Its stated sweet spot is businesses with $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue, with principal verticals spanning construction and trades, industrial distribution, New Orleans restaurants and hospitality, and professional services.
What stands out about Duran Advisors
Duran Advisors publicly presents a seller-focused model combining business valuation, exit planning, sell-side M&A advisory, business brokerage, and the Structured Sale™ process. The firm identifies a $1 million to $25 million annual-revenue sweet spot and regional coverage across New Orleans, the New Orleans North Shore, Baton Rouge, Houma–Thibodaux, and South Mississippi.[1][2][3][4][6][8]
What does Duran Advisors do?
Duran Advisors is a credentialed sell-side M&A and exit-planning practice headquartered in Metairie, Louisiana. The firm publicly presents services spanning business valuation, exit planning, sell-side M&A advisory, business brokerage, and its Structured Sale™ process.[1][2]
Publicly stated services include business valuation, exit planning, sell-side M&A advisory, and business brokerage. The Structured Sale™ process includes pre-market diagnostics, CIM and data-room preparation, confidential buyer outreach, buyer pre-screening, NDAs, buyer meetings, and LOI evaluation.[2][3]
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: Duran Advisors states that its sweet spot is businesses with $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue. It describes Upper Main Street engagements as $1M–$5M and Lower Middle Market engagements as $5M–$25M.[1][6]
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Duran Advisors?
An owner evaluating Duran Advisors should distinguish between the firm’s stated process and the specific terms of an engagement. The public information supports asking for anonymized recent deal examples, clarification of the firm’s role in displayed transactions, the applicable engagement and success-fee provisions, and evidence of current Louisiana and Mississippi brokerage licensing.
The firm’s public seller model and stated revenue range provide a basis for discussing whether its services address the owner’s circumstances. Owners should also clarify the deliverables included in valuation and exit-planning work, how buyer relationships and conflicts are handled, and which legal entity would sign the engagement.[1][2][3][4][7][8]
Can Duran Advisors provide anonymized recent deal examples with announcement and closing dates, buyer type, industry, and the firm's specific role
What engagement-fee, success-fee, breakpoint, tail, termination, and expense provisions would apply to the proposed engagement
Can the firm provide evidence of current Louisiana and Mississippi brokerage licenses, and identify the contracting legal entity
What size transactions and clients does Duran Advisors focus on?
Duran Advisors identifies four principal industry verticals: construction and trades; industrial distribution; New Orleans restaurants and hospitality; and professional services.[5]
The official homepage identifies three completed engagements: a bar and two nightclubs on Bourbon Street in New Orleans acquired by a strategic buyer; an environmental services company sold through a management buyout for $3,100,000; and a sporting-goods retail store sold to an individual buyer for $1,300,000.[2]
The firm publicly describes a sell-side model rather than buy-side representation for a specific buyer. Its stated transaction work includes preparation and outreach through buyer evaluation and LOI review.[3][4]
What does Duran Advisors publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The client-stories page states that client transactions, valuations, and even the fact of an engagement remain confidential unless clients choose otherwise, and it describes the work without naming clients. The homepage describes an engagement fee plus a success fee based on transaction value but does not publish a universal success-fee percentage or breakpoint schedule.[2][6]
Duran Advisors’ website states that the firm is a licensed commercial-real-estate agent and broker operation in Louisiana and Mississippi. The credentials page identifies Joel F. Duran as holding Louisiana real-estate license number 995683489. The Louisiana Real Estate Commission public-search page provides lookup fields but does not itself display a firm-level Duran Advisors license result in the accessible page content.[2][7][8]
The Structured Sale™ process is described as including pre-market diagnostics, preparation of a confidential information memorandum and data room, confidential buyer outreach, buyer pre-screening, NDAs, buyer meetings, and evaluation of letters of intent.[3]
Questions to ask before hiring Duran Advisors
Can Duran Advisors provide anonymized recent deal examples with announcement and closing dates, buyer type, industry, and the firm's specific role?
What engagement-fee, success-fee, breakpoint, tail, termination, and expense provisions would apply to the proposed engagement?
Can the firm provide evidence of current Louisiana and Mississippi brokerage licenses, and identify the contracting legal entity?
What deliverables are included in the valuation and exit-planning engagements?
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