Reliant M&A Advisors
Reliant M&A Advisors is an M&A advisory firm that helps owners sell or buy companies and prepare for exit. Its stated services include sell-side advisory, buy-side representation, valuation and exit planning, strategic M&A and roll-up advisory, and post-transaction support.
What stands out about Reliant M&A Advisors
Reliant publicly presents a principal advisory model for small and lower-middle-market businesses, with services spanning sell-side and buy-side transactions, valuation, exit planning, strategic M&A, roll-up advisory, and post-transaction support. The Team page identifies experience across consumer and franchising, food manufacturing, logistics, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, and professional services. Monique Manley is publicly described as focusing primarily on Alaska-based companies and transactions where real property comprises most of enterprise value.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
What does Reliant M&A Advisors do?
Reliant M&A Advisors identifies itself as a business that helps owners sell or buy companies and prepare for exit. Bob Lowrance and John Gengler are identified on the official Team page as co-founders and managing partners.
The firm publicly describes services for small and lower-middle-market businesses, including sell-side advisory, buy-side representation, valuation and exit planning, strategic M&A and roll-up advisory, and post-transaction support.[1][2][3][4]
Reliant’s sell-side advisory offering includes valuation, market preparation, confidential buyer marketing, negotiation, and closing support. Its buy-side representation includes target identification and outreach, diligence, price strategy, negotiation, and deal structuring.
The firm also publicly offers valuation and exit planning, strategic M&A and roll-up advisory, and post-transaction support.[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 Reliant M&A Advisors?
Owners evaluating Reliant can examine its stated sell-side scope, including valuation, exit preparation, confidential buyer marketing, negotiation, and closing support. The firm also publicly identifies first-time sellers, experienced operators, founder-led companies, and lower-middle-market businesses among its stated audiences.
Before engagement, an owner should confirm the proposed deal team, relevant sector and geographic experience, buyer-outreach process, fee and expense terms, exclusivity and termination provisions, licensing posture, and representative transaction history. Reliant’s Services page does not publish those fee terms, and Reliant’s About page does not provide dates, values, buyer identities, or consideration terms for its named examples.[3][4][5][6]
What are Reliant's current minimum and typical revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, or transaction-size criteria
Which industries and geographies does the firm actively cover for buyers
What fees, retainers, success fees, expense reimbursements, exclusivity periods, termination provisions, and tail provisions apply
What size transactions and clients does Reliant M&A Advisors focus on?
Reliant’s Team page identifies experience across consumer and franchising, food manufacturing, logistics, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, and professional services. Those disclosures describe team experience.[2]
Reliant’s official About page names Rockin’R and Apple Annie’s in client testimonials describing completed business sales. It also names Construction Capital Group in a testimonial concerning acquisitions and due diligence.
Reliant’s official homepage states that it has completed seven-figure exits and strategic acquisitions for itself and its clients. The About page does not disclose transaction dates, transaction values, buyer identities, or consideration terms for the named examples.[1][5]
Reliant publicly covers business sales and acquisitions, exit preparation, valuation, target sourcing, diligence, negotiation, deal structuring, strategic M&A, and roll-up advisory. The firm states that it advises first-time sellers, experienced operators, strategic buyers, private equity firms, founder-led companies, and roll-up groups.[1][3][4]
What does Reliant M&A Advisors publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
Reliant’s Who We Help page does not publish numeric revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, or minimum transaction-size criteria. Reliant’s Services page does not publish a fee schedule, retainer amount, success-fee percentage, expense policy, exclusivity period, termination provision, or tail period.
Reliant’s About page names client examples but does not disclose transaction dates, transaction values, buyer identities, or consideration terms for those examples. Reliant’s Contact page does not state firm-level regulatory registration or licensing details.[3][4][5][6]
Reliant’s official Contact page provides a general telephone number and inquiry form for prospective clients. That page does not state a firm-level broker-dealer registration, investment-adviser registration, regulator, registration number, or other licensing structure.[6]
Reliant publicly describes a process that can include valuation and preparation, confidential buyer marketing, target identification and outreach, diligence, price strategy, negotiation, deal structuring, and closing or post-transaction support, depending on the service involved. The homepage states that the firm maintains confidentiality with clients.[3][5]
Questions to ask before hiring Reliant M&A Advisors
What are Reliant's current minimum and typical revenue, EBITDA, enterprise-value, or transaction-size criteria?
Which industries and geographies does the firm actively cover for buyers?
What fees, retainers, success fees, expense reimbursements, exclusivity periods, termination provisions, and tail provisions apply?
Which public transaction examples can be verified with dates, transaction size, buyer type, and Reliant's role?
Which legal entity signs engagements, and does any engagement involve a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser?
How does Reliant handle conflicts when advising buyers and sellers?
What post-transaction transition obligations and fees apply?
Sources & research notes
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