Kreshmore Group
Kreshmore Group provides sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory, capital-markets, restructuring, valuation, due-diligence, and strategic-advisory services. Its stated focus includes lower-middle-market and mid-market companies within the continental United States.
What stands out about Kreshmore Group
Kreshmore Group is an M&A intermediary and restructuring advisor with publicly stated coverage across lower-middle-market, mid-market, and emerging-growth companies. Its services include sell-side and buy-side advisory, capital solutions, valuation, due diligence, restructuring, and strategic advisory.[1][2][3][6][7]
What does Kreshmore Group do?
Kreshmore Group is a Chicagoland-based restructuring and mergers-and-acquisitions advisory firm that began operations in 2009 through predecessors and is headquartered in Lemont, Illinois.
Kreshmore states that it focuses on lower-middle-market and mid-market companies within the continental United States and serves emerging-growth companies. Its official about page reports $800 million in aggregate transactions, a 91% transaction close rate, and more than 175 years of combined relevant experience.[1]
Kreshmore publicly offers sell-side and buy-side advisory, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, deal sourcing, financial and cultural due diligence, valuations and fairness opinions, offering memoranda, business-plan development, contract negotiations, transition and integration, and succession planning.
The firm identifies restructuring and turnaround, M&A and real-estate capital markets, strategic advisory, and sports consulting as principal service areas.[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.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Kreshmore Group?
An owner evaluating Kreshmore may wish to clarify the proposed fee structure, expenses, exclusivity period, termination rights, and any tail provisions because the cited M&A service page does not publish a universal fee percentage, minimum fee, or standard engagement-term schedule.
The owner should also clarify which legal entity would contract with the company, whether StillPoint Capital or a registered representative would be involved, how valuation would be determined, how conflicts would be managed across sell-side advisory, debt placement, restructuring, and capital-raising work, and how buyer outreach and confidentiality would be handled.[2][8]
What are the proposed fees, expenses, exclusivity period, termination rights, and any tail provisions
Which legal entity will contract with the owner, and when would StillPoint Capital or a registered representative be involved
Which transactions and buyer contacts are relevant to the company
What size transactions and clients does Kreshmore Group focus on?
Kreshmore’s published industry coverage includes real estate, transportation and logistics, hospitality, sports, manufacturing, automotive, warehousing and distribution, and niche services.[4]
- The transaction archive lists a November 2025 vertical and horizontal construction-capital engagement involving a $47,500,000 residential subdivision.
- It lists September 2025 corporate debt advisory for transportation and logistics involving $3,320,000; August 2025 corporate debt advisory for manufacturing and distribution involving $11,500,000; and April 2025 corporate debt advisory for convenience and gas involving $9,650,000.
- The archive identifies WIN III Holdings’ acquisition of Honsa Ergonomic Technologies Inc. in March 2023 as a buyside advisory and corporate debt advisory engagement in manufacturing.
Kreshmore’s stated transaction capabilities include sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory, recapitalizations, deal sourcing, valuation, due diligence, debt and capital solutions, and restructuring and turnaround work.
Its public sell-side materials describe intermediary services through a structured sale, divestiture, or recapitalization process, with attention to buyer solicitation, due diligence, valuation expectations, deal structure, timing, and transition.[2][3]
What does Kreshmore Group publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The cited official transaction page lists the October 2025 exclusive M&A advisory engagement for a manufacturing company as having undisclosed consideration. That page also does not identify buyer names or consideration for that engagement beyond marking consideration as undisclosed.
The cited official M&A service page describes advisory services and process stages but does not publish a universal fee percentage, minimum fee, or standard engagement-term schedule.[2][6]
Kreshmore’s official site states that it is a registered M&A business broker in relevant active states. It also states that securities transactions are conducted through StillPoint Capital, a FINRA/SIPC member, that certain Kreshmore members are registered representatives of StillPoint Capital, and that Kreshmore Group and StillPoint Capital are not affiliated entities.
FINRA’s BrokerCheck firm report identifies StillPoint Capital, LLC as a broker-dealer firm with CRD number 133146. That record concerns StillPoint Capital rather than establishing firm-level registration for Kreshmore Group.[8][9]
Kreshmore’s stated M&A process includes planning and preparation, buyer-target development, direct outreach and solicitation, transaction-structure qualification, exclusivity, due diligence, contract negotiation, closing, and post-close activities.[2]
Questions to ask before hiring Kreshmore Group
What are the proposed fees, expenses, exclusivity period, termination rights, and any tail provisions?
Which legal entity will contract with the owner, and when would StillPoint Capital or a registered representative be involved?
Which transactions and buyer contacts are relevant to the company?
How does Kreshmore determine valuation and manage conflicts between sell-side advisory, debt placement, restructuring, and any capital-raising work?
What information will be disclosed to prospective buyers, and how will confidentiality be protected?
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