Metro Business Advisors
Metro Business Advisors identifies itself as a St. Louis-headquartered business broker and full-service M&A firm. Its stated services include business sales and purchases, valuations, succession planning, advisory support, and value-building services.
What stands out about Metro Business Advisors
Metro Business Advisors publicly describes a seller process that includes analysis, valuation, confidential marketing, buyer qualification, offer and due-diligence support, negotiation, and coordination with professional advisors. It states that it focuses on businesses with up to $20 million in sales and/or $400,000 to $2,000,000 in Seller’s Discretionary Earnings or EBITDA.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
What does Metro Business Advisors do?
Metro Business Advisors is headquartered in St. Louis and identifies itself as a business broker and full-service M&A firm. The firm publicly states that it provides business sales, business purchases, market valuations, succession planning, advisory services, and value-building support.
Dave Driscoll is identified as President, and Lisa Mason is identified as Marketing & Communications Director.[1]
Publicly stated services include selling and buying businesses, market valuations, succession planning, advisory services, and value-building support. The firm’s seller process also includes pre-sale analysis, valuation and asking-price determination, confidential business-overview preparation, customized marketing, offer and due-diligence support, negotiation, and coordination with legal, accounting, banking, and other professionals.[1][8]
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 Metro Business Advisors?
An owner evaluating Metro can ask how the stated valuation process is applied to the owner’s financial statements, including normalization, valuation methods, and industry data. The owner can also clarify how buyer financial qualification and cultural fit are assessed and when confidentiality documentation is required before the parties are identified.
Because the seller page does not publish a standard success-fee percentage, minimum fee, termination schedule, or tail provision, those engagement terms should be confirmed directly. The testimonials page does not publish transaction dates, deal values, consideration terms, buyer identities, or a complete transaction history, so an owner may also request current transaction data relevant to the intended sector, geography, revenue, and consideration range.
Where commercial property may be included in a transaction, the owner can verify which advisors hold active real-estate licenses and request the applicable license and legal-entity details.[2][3][5][6][7][8]
What are the current engagement fees, success-fee percentages, minimum fees, expense reimbursements, exclusivity terms, termination rights, and tail provisions
How many transactions has the firm closed, by sector, geography, revenue, and consideration range
What percentage of engagements result in a completed sale, and how is that measured
What size transactions does Metro Business Advisors handle?
The firm states that seller representation follows a Comprehensive Business Analysis and Broker’s Opinion of Value using normalized sustainable financial performance, multiple valuation methods, and industry statistics.
The official testimonials page identifies completed-sale examples involving Outdoor Lighting Perspectives and Mosquito Squad, and a former owner of Employmentskiptracing.com. The official business-for-sale page identifies an HVAC company in St. Louis with an asking price of $815,000 including inventory and gross revenue of $2 million.[2][3][5]
The Metro Exchange connects buyers with sellers. Metro states that it qualifies buyers based on purchase requirements and financial capacity and uses confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements before identifying the parties. The firm also states that it screens buyers for financial qualification and cultural fit and works with individual buyers, private equity groups, and corporations seeking to acquire a business.[2][3]
Metro Business Advisors states that its brokers have experience in many industries. The reviewed official pages do not identify a narrower sector specialization.
The firm’s stated geographic service areas include St. Louis, Columbia, Kansas City, Lake of the Ozarks/Camdenton, and Central Missouri. Its Metro Exchange page states that it typically represents businesses for sale in Missouri, Illinois, and across the Midwest.[1][2][3]
What does Metro Business Advisors publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The business-for-sale page identifies an HVAC listing but does not publish the seller’s identity, buyer identity, closing date, or completed-transaction status for that listing.
The testimonials page names representative completed-sale examples but does not publish transaction dates, deal values, consideration terms, buyer identities, or a complete transaction history for those examples.
The seller page does not publish a standard success-fee percentage, minimum fee, termination schedule, or tail provision. The buyer-registration page states that a Missouri Broker Disclosure is used but does not publish individual advisor license numbers or firm-level registration identifiers on that page.[3][5][6][7]
The official website states that all Metro M&A advisors hold a real estate license, allowing the firm to include commercial property in a transaction. Its buyer-registration process states that prospective buyers receive a Missouri Broker Disclosure as part of the registration documentation.[3][6]
Metro’s stated seller process includes pre-sale analysis, valuation and asking-price determination, preparation of a confidential business overview, customized marketing, offer and due-diligence support, negotiation, and coordination with legal, accounting, banking, and other professional resources.
The firm states that it represents sellers after completing its valuation process and that its buyer process includes financial qualification, confidentiality documentation, and buyer-seller matching.[2][3][8]
Questions to ask before hiring Metro Business Advisors
What are the current engagement fees, success-fee percentages, minimum fees, expense reimbursements, exclusivity terms, termination rights, and tail provisions?
How many transactions has the firm closed, by sector, geography, revenue, and consideration range?
What percentage of engagements result in a completed sale, and how is that measured?
Which team member will lead the engagement, and what seller responsibilities should be expected during the stated process?
How are valuation adjustments, real estate, working capital, seller financing, earnouts, and tax considerations handled?
What buyer-screening evidence is required before confidential information is released?
Which advisors hold active real-estate licenses, and what are the applicable legal entities and license numbers?
Sources & research notes
- Official website / firm overview
- Investment approach
- Geography / market coverage
- Transaction size / criteria
- Transaction / portfolio evidence
- Structure / regulatory context
- Public disclosure information
- Public Process
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