Market
Georgia and the Southeast
Typical timeline
6–12 months to close
Confidentiality
Staged, NDA-gated disclosure
Selling to the first buyer who calls is the most expensive decision an owner can make. Unsolicited offers are priced for a seller with no alternatives — and the buyer knows whether you have any.
Georgia Business Advisory runs a structured process that creates alternatives, and alternatives are what create price.
Metro Atlanta continues to attract private equity platforms and strategic acquirers looking for add-ons across services, healthcare, construction trades, logistics, and light manufacturing. For a well-prepared business in the $2M to $20M range, the buyer pool is deeper than most owners assume.
What varies is preparation. The businesses that clear the market cleanly are the ones whose financials, contracts, and management structure hold up under scrutiny.
Six stages, each with a defined gate. We do not advance until the prior stage holds.
Employees, customers, and competitors do not need to know. Buyers are financially qualified and under NDA before they see identifying information, and detailed disclosure is staged against demonstrated seriousness. Meanwhile you keep running the company — a soft quarter mid-process costs real money.
Headline price is not proceeds. Structure — cash at close, seller note, earnout, rollover equity, escrow, working capital peg — routinely swings net outcomes by twenty percent or more. We model after-tax proceeds for every offer so you are comparing the right numbers.