Exit Equity
Exit Equity LLC publicly offers exit planning, business valuation, sell-side business sales, and buy-side acquisition services. Its stated sell-side experience includes small and mid-size privately held companies with $1m to $25m in revenue, with core segments in manufacturing, technology, and business-to-business services.
What stands out about Exit Equity
Exit Equity publicly describes a hands-on sell-side process involving valuation, confidential marketing, buyer outreach, negotiation, and transaction management. It states that it markets businesses without a set price and uses a blind-competitive bidding environment, while its cited past-transactions archive does not state transaction consideration or valuation for listed examples.[1][2][3][5][6]
What does Exit Equity do?
Exit Equity operates under the legal entity name Exit Equity LLC. It publicly offers exit planning, business valuation, sell-side business sales, and buy-side business acquisition services.
The firm states that its sell-side work includes valuation, confidential marketing, buyer outreach, negotiation, and hands-on transaction management.[1][2]
Exit Equity publicly describes exit planning, business valuation, sell-side business sales, buy-side business acquisition services, confidential marketing, buyer outreach, negotiation, and hands-on transaction management.
Its valuation offering includes Broker’s Opinions of Value and Certified Business Valuation reports. The firm states that these reports may be used for exit planning, succession planning, M&A, ownership transitions, financing, and legal or dispute-related matters.[1][2][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.
Published criteria: Exit Equity states that its sell-side experience includes small and mid-size privately held companies with $1m to $25m in revenue. For its active buyer pool, it states that it represents qualified, profitable companies with revenues of $1m+.[2][5]
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Exit Equity?
For an owner evaluating a sell-side engagement, the firm’s published materials establish a stated revenue range of $1m to $25m for small and mid-size privately held companies, core segments in manufacturing, technology, and business-to-business services, and a process involving confidential marketing and blind competitive bidding.
The official sell-a-business page does not publish a universal success-fee percentage, minimum fee, or standard engagement-fee schedule. Owners may therefore want to clarify the proposed fee structure, buyer outreach scope, valuation methodology, process timeline, and treatment of real estate or other non-operating assets in the engagement.[2][4]
What is the proposed fee structure, including any retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, and tail period
Which buyer categories and named buyers would be targeted for this company
How is the valuation range determined, and which comparable transactions support it
What size transactions does Exit Equity handle?
The official past-transactions archive identifies JED Heating & Cooling, Inc. as an HVAC divestiture for which Exit Equity advised on a sale to Century Mechanical Holdings. It also identifies Dipaola Quality Climate Control, LLC as an HVAC divestiture for which the firm served as M&A advisor on a sale to Century Mechanical Holdings.
The archive identifies Pro-MAAC Supply as an industrial distribution and real-estate divestiture acquired by Twin Peaks Pump & Supply, and Sheldrup Building Services Company as a commercial glazing divestiture. For Sheldrup, the archive states that Exit Equity found multiple buyers before selecting a buyer with construction experience and SBA financing capability.[6]
Exit Equity publicly offers sell-side business sales and buy-side acquisition services. Its sell-side description includes valuation, confidential marketing, buyer outreach, negotiation, and hands-on transaction management.
The firm states that it markets businesses without a set price and uses a blind-competitive bidding environment to help create a competitive buyer marketplace.[1][2]
Exit Equity identifies manufacturing, technology, and business-to-business services as three core industry segments while stating that its services are industry agnostic.
The firm’s stated sell-side experience includes small and mid-size privately held companies with $1m to $25m in revenue.[2][4]
What does Exit Equity publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The official past-transactions archive identifies transaction names, industries, locations, transaction types, and selected descriptions, but does not state transaction consideration or valuation for the listed examples.
The official sell-a-business page does not publish a universal success-fee percentage, minimum fee, or standard engagement-fee schedule.[2][6]
The official website identifies the operating entity as Exit Equity LLC. Its team page identifies Kara Gibson Brzytwa and Dan Gibson as managing brokers and lists professional credentials among personnel, including CBI, CVA, CM&AP, CEPA, and M&AMI.[1][7]
Exit Equity describes a sell-side process that includes confidential marketing, buyer outreach, buyer qualification, negotiation, and hands-on transaction management. It states that businesses are marketed without a set price and through a blind-competitive bidding environment.
The firm also states that it has connections with more than 3,000 potential buyers across the country.[2]
Questions to ask before hiring Exit Equity
What is the proposed fee structure, including any retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense reimbursement, and tail period?
Which buyer categories and named buyers would be targeted for this company?
How is the valuation range determined, and which comparable transactions support it?
What is the expected process timeline and owner involvement?
How are real estate, working capital, earn-outs, seller notes, rollover equity, and transition obligations handled?
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