Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC
Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC describes itself as a business brokerage and M&A advisory firm serving businesses from Main Street to the middle market. Its stated services include confidential sell-side representation, buy-side acquisition representation, transaction support, financial recast reviews, negotiation, deal structuring, financing assistance, and closing support.
What stands out about Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC
The firm publicly describes a confidential sell-side and buy-side advisory model, nationwide assistance, and work across industries and business sizes. Its cited seller-representation page states a 12-month engagement letter, while the cited team page reports hundreds of completed deals without naming or dating individual business-sale or M&A transactions.[1][2][3][4][6]
What does Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC do?
Merger & Acquisition Specialists identifies itself as a business brokerage and M&A advisory firm with an office in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm states that it works with businesses from Main Street to the middle market and assists owners seeking to sell or acquire similar enterprises.[1][4]
Sell-side services include confidential representation, private marketing of a business, negotiation of terms, coordination with buyers and financing sources, and closing-process support. The firm’s Business Acquisition Program provides buy-side representation involving target identification, information gathering, term negotiation, deal structuring, and financing assistance.
The firm also offers a fee-based Quarterly Review using a Financial Recast methodology to analyze cash-flow performance and present a range of values. It states that the Quarterly Review is not a certified valuation.[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.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC?
An owner evaluating an engagement should examine how the firm’s confidential marketing, buyer screening, negotiation, financing coordination, and closing support would apply to the proposed sale. The stated Main Street-to-middle-market range and nationwide assistance describe the firm’s public positioning, while the cited seller-representation page states a 12-month engagement letter.
Owners should request comparable recent closed transactions, the complete fee and expense schedule, exclusivity and termination terms, the valuation methodology used for the engagement, conflict and dual-representation policies, the contracting legal entity, applicable licenses or registrations, and references from comparable sellers. The cited seller-representation page does not publish several of those commercial terms.[2][3][4]
Can the firm provide three to five recent closed transactions comparable by industry, geography, revenue, EBITDA, or another relevant metric, including dates and the firm's role
What are the success fee, retainer, minimum fee, reimbursable expenses, tail period, exclusivity, and termination provisions
How are valuation ranges prepared, and when would a certified valuation specialist be involved
What size transactions does Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC handle?
The firm’s team page states that its brokerage company has completed hundreds of deals. The current real-estate page identifies listings including a commercial warehouse of approximately 16,975 square feet priced at $625,000, duplex commercial retail space priced at $225,800, prime commercial real estate priced at $150,000, a cash-flowing residential home priced at $140,000, and commercial retail space priced at $180,000.
These current real-estate listings are public listings rather than identified completed business-sale or M&A transaction examples.[4][7]
The firm’s stated transaction work covers confidential business sales and acquisitions. On the sell side, it represents owners, privately markets businesses, negotiates terms, coordinates with buyers and financing sources, and supports closing. On the buy side, it identifies prospects, gathers information, negotiates terms, structures deals, and assists with financing.[2][3]
The firm states that it does not specialize in one industry and works with various types of businesses across industries and sizes. Its buyer-activity page highlights durable medical equipment, insurance agencies, vitamin/mineral/supplement companies, and childcare/preschool. M&A Source lists business services, construction, eCommerce, finance and insurance, food and beverage, industrial services, manufacturing, and retail trade among Michelle Tedder’s specialty areas.[5][6][8]
What does Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The cited team page reports an aggregate completed-deal count but does not identify named or dated completed business-sale or M&A transactions. The cited buyer-activity page describes activity in several sectors but does not identify completed transactions, transaction dates, consideration amounts, or buyer and seller identities.
The cited seller-representation page states a 12-month engagement letter and describes the Quarterly Review as fee-based, but does not publish a universal success-fee percentage, minimum fee, tail period, termination schedule, or the Quarterly Review amount.[2][4][6]
The official team page states that Tom Stanton, Ashton Woodward, and Shep Campbell are licensed real estate agents. M&A Source identifies Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC as the business associated with Michelle Tedder in Little Rock, Arkansas.[4][8]
The firm’s FAQ states that confidential marketing may use the internet, direct mail, email blasts, and networking. Interested buyers are screened through an in-depth conversation, a nondisclosure agreement, and a financial statement demonstrating purchasing ability.[5]
Questions to ask before hiring Merger & Acquisition Specialists LLC
Can the firm provide three to five recent closed transactions comparable by industry, geography, revenue, EBITDA, or another relevant metric, including dates and the firm's role?
What are the success fee, retainer, minimum fee, reimbursable expenses, tail period, exclusivity, and termination provisions?
How are valuation ranges prepared, and when would a certified valuation specialist be involved?
How are buyer conflicts and possible dual-representation situations handled?
Which legal entity contracts with the seller, and what licenses or registrations apply to the services provided?
How are confidentiality, NDA enforcement, buyer financial qualification, and access to seller information handled?
Sources & research notes
- Official website / firm overview
- Services / capabilities
- Services / capabilities
- Investment approach
- Industry / market focus
- Industry focus
- Transaction / portfolio evidence
- Structure / regulatory context
How this profile was researched
Auxo profiles are prepared from publicly available primary and authoritative sources and reviewed for entity identity, factual support and disclosure consistency. When a fact cannot be supported by the reviewed public record, the profile identifies it as something to confirm directly rather than inferring it.
Independent research profile
This profile was prepared by Auxo Capital Advisors from publicly available information believed to be reliable and is provided solely for informational and educational purposes. It is not an endorsement, recommendation, ranking, solicitation, or representation regarding the profiled firm, its services, qualifications, transaction experience, regulatory status, financial condition, or suitability for any particular person, company, transaction, or investment.
Information obtained from third-party and public sources may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or subject to change, and Auxo Capital Advisors makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to its accuracy, completeness, or timeliness. Readers should conduct their own independent diligence and consult appropriate professional advisers before engaging any advisor, intermediary, investor, lender, acquirer, or other transaction counterparty.
Broker-dealer and securities disclosure
Auxo Capital Advisors is an affiliate of Weild & Co., Member FINRA | SIPC. Securities-related activities and securities transactions are conducted through Weild & Co.
Nothing contained on this page constitutes an offer to sell, an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any security, investment product, or financial instrument. Nothing on this page constitutes investment advice, a recommendation regarding any security, or a recommendation to enter into any transaction with the profiled firm or any other party.
Any securities transaction, capital-raising engagement, investment-banking engagement, or other securities-related activity involving Auxo Capital Advisors or Weild & Co. is subject to applicable regulatory requirements, internal review and approval, suitability and other applicable diligence requirements, and the terms of a separate written engagement or transaction agreement, as applicable.
Inclusion of a third-party firm in this directory does not imply affiliation with, sponsorship by, endorsement by, or any other relationship with Auxo Capital Advisors or Weild & Co. unless expressly stated otherwise.