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United States M&A Advisory Firms

1,380

Active Firms

1,578

TTM Deal Flow

$3M-$16M

Core Revenue Range

$500K-$3M

Core EBITDA Range


Industrials 37%
Technology 12%
Healthcare 11%
Business Services 11%
Consumer Goods 11%

Best For: Owner-Led Companies | Typical Fee: Retainer & Success fee | Coverage: Sector Expertise With Hands-On Execution

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Rainwater Business Advisors LLC

1 Closed Deal via Axial 2 Total Closed Deals
A lower-mid market mergers and acquisitions firm. Rainwater is heavily focused on representing sell-side business owners looking to sell their company and be effective in managing those funds with a solid succession strategy.

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  • Sep 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Apr 2023 Advised Confidential Company on an investment from Confidential Company

DLA-Mergers & Acquisitions

1 Closed Deal via Axial 1 Total Closed Deal
DLA-Mergers & Acquisitions is a middle market advisory firm located in Overland Park, Kansas. With a seasoned team of experts, DLA helps business owners prepare for growth through acquisition or plan for an exit.

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  • Mar 2019 Advised Undisclosed in its sale to Waterside Capital Partners, LLC

Smith Holland Advisors

1 Closed Deal via Axial 1 Total Closed Deal
Smith Holland is a different type of middle market M&A advisory firm. Based out of Chicago, we believe results should come before fees and maximizing shareholder value for clients is at the core of everything we do. Every Smith Holland advisor knows how stressful and unpredictable the M&A process can because we have all personally started, operated and sold businesses of our own, which gives us an added layer of transactional insight that can’t be learned in the classroom. The risks are always higher on the sell-side of the deal and that’s why every Smith Holland M&A transaction is led by…

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  • Aug 2020 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Buyer

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Zpen Ventures

1 Closed Deal via Axial 1 Total Closed Deal
I have been helping Groups Buy and Sell their companies for over 17 yrs.I have sold over 100 different transactions to date. Having also been involved hands on with several businesses in different industries, has given me the opportunity to understand businesses from the operators side. This experience helps me to locate quality companies both for sale and for purchase. If you are looking to acquire or looking to retire, I would love the opportunity to help you.

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  • Dec 2022 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Buyer

TUSK Practice Sales

131 Total Closed Deals
TUSK Practice Sales (“TUSK”) provides M&A Advisory services in the healthcare industry. TUSK has completed over $1B of transactions across all specialties. With an in-depth understanding of the marketplace and access to 100’s of buyers nationwide, we help our clients confidently pursue M&A transactions that maximize their long-term value. With our significant collective experience of over 125+ years of practice transactions, we offer our clients solutions that help them achieve their strategic and financial objectives. For more information,…

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  • Jun 2026 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Forefront Dermatology
  • Jun 2026 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Smile Doctors
  • Apr 2026 Advised Children's Dentistry of Greenville in its sale to Chord Specialty Dental Partners
  • Apr 2026 Advised MyOrthodontist in its sale to SALT Dental Partners

Keystone Capital Markets

94 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Keystone Capital is a leading Southern California based Investment Bank that provides sophisticated M&A and financial advisory services to middle-market businesses. We offer our clients the expertise and capabilities of a large Wall Street Investment Bank coupled with the energy and attention of a smaller, more entrepreneurial firm. We believe investment banking is about relationships and results, and we rely upon our extensive experience to extract maximum value for our clients. Our philosophy emphasizes lasting, value added relationships, and is founded on an approach that delivers:…

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  • Apr 2026 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Nov 2025 Advised Fabricast, Inc. in its sale to United Equipment Accessories (UEA)
  • Jun 2025 Advised Healthcare Cost Solutions in its sale to Coker
  • Apr 2025 Advised Desco Manufacturing Company, Inc. in its sale to ShoreView

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Chartwell

80 Total Closed Deals
Chartwell’s expertise in financial advisory, corporate finance, transaction opinions, and valuation services is focused on the unique needs of middle market companies. Our team of professionals is passionate about delivering innovative, unbiased solutions of the highest quality to address our clients’ financial complexities. Our distinct advantage is that our professionals not only understand and address our clients’ financial needs, but are also truly valued strategic business advisors.

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  • May 2017 Advised Canada Film Capital in its sale to Entertainment Partners
  • May 2017 Advised Entertainment Partners Canada in its sale to Entertainment Partners
  • May 2017 Advised Morton Buildings, Inc. in its sale to Morton Buildings, Inc. Leveraged Employee Stock Ownership Trust
  • May 2017 Advised Entertainment Partners on an investment from Ares Capital

Boxwood Partners

78 Total Closed Deals
Boxwood Partners, LLC, is a boutique investment bank based in Jupiter, Florida with offices in Richmond, Virginia. Our professionals combine a unique blend of senior-level transaction advisory and business operating experience with proven process execution skills to give our clients a distinct advantage in the market. Moreover, our extensive relationships within the global capital and buyer communities (including U.S. and international private equity groups, corporations, hedge funds, and lenders) along with other important transaction-related service providers such as consultants, attorneys,…

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  • Oct 2024 Advised Sam The Concrete Man on an investment from Eagle Merchant
  • Aug 2024 Advised Drew Sell Inc. in its sale to Impact Home Services
  • Jul 2024 Advised Pay4Leads Inc in its sale to LiftOut Capital
  • May 2024 Advised PD Tri-State Holdco in its sale to Monogram Capital
Interacting on a day-to-day basis with numerous company owners and executives gives The Independence Group the inside track on qualifying businesses for sale. Private Equity Groups (PEGs) seeking platform and add-on acquisitions for their investment portfolios trust our team to provide professional buyside search services. Generally, engagements are non-exclusive arrangements to provide acquisition assistance in the following ways:Search for business acquisition candidates in the PEG's specific industries of interestQualify these companies based on parameters provided by the PEG (i.e. size,…

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  • Aug 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Jun 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Dec 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Feb 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
YOUR STRATEGIC CHOICE FOR SUCCESS Affinity Ventures is a nationally recognized merger and acquisitions firm, specializing in complete advisory services to middle market companies. We are affiliated with the Alliance of M&A Advisors, ACG, IBBA, M&A Source and CBC industry groups and have earned many awards of distinction. As an example, our principal is one of only 85 accredited M&A Master Intermediaries in North America. Our experienced transaction team has a rich history of helping clients with business valuations, divestiture preparation, buyer identification and the complete facilitation…

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  • Sep 2025 Advised NDS in its sale to Private Equity
  • Mar 2024 Advised NuAge Builders in its sale to Private Equity
  • Jan 2024 Advised Herbs, Etc. in its sale to Rosewood Private Investments
  • Jul 2023 Advised L & K Electric Inc. in its sale to Platform Company
Progress Partners is a Boston and New York City-based boutique advisory firm providing M&A advisory and corporate finance strategy to leading technology companies. Since 2002, Progress Partners has aimed to work with exceptional entrepreneurial teams on solutions for growth. Each process is customized to the needs of each client and what their objectives are: thinking through and evaluating all elements of operations, business model, sales strategy, client diversification, partnership formation, talent acquisition, and marketing. The firm operates at the intersection of process and market…

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  • Apr 2019 Advised Kinema Systems in its sale to Boston Dynamics
  • Apr 2019 Advised iQ Media in its sale to 4C Insights
  • Apr 2019 Advised Vyze in its sale to Mastercard
  • Nov 2018 Advised Massive Interactive in its sale to Deltatre

SC&H Capital

47 Total Closed Deals
SC&H Capital is a national investment bank specializing in distressed M&A, capital raises, and financial restructurings for middle market companies. Its 35-year-old special situations team has preserved an estimated 65,000 jobs in more than six hundred and fifty M&A and financing transactions, including more than three hundred §363 sales in seventy-three districts. Other services include business valuations, sell-side M&A and ESOPs for healthy companies. SC&H Capital serves numerous industries including manufacturing, construction, healthcare, agribusiness, consumer, food…

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  • Dec 2025 Advised Mount Joy Wire in its sale to Wire Investors II LLC
  • Oct 2025 Advised Black Button in its sale to American Craft Distillers
  • Feb 2025 Advised Zurvita in its sale to Zinzino
  • Sep 2024 Advised The Lyons Companies in its sale to Fenco Solutions

Sunfield Advisors

46 Total Closed Deals
Sunfield Advisors is a growth-oriented Tech and Human Capital management M&A advisory firm with over 125 years of combined expertise. Founded by a team of former CEOs and business owners in 2008, Sunfield leverages firsthand experience to increase company valuations and accelerate business transactions.Why US Being entrepreneurs, it comes naturally for us to advise other entrepreneurs on M&A. Sunfield’s partners’ histories with buying and selling companies are fundamental to our success as advisors.Our team has managed over 90 transactions globally, demonstrating our expertise in…

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  • May 2024 Advised 1904labs in its sale to Abry Partners
  • Mar 2024 Advised R88 Inc- Fintech in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Feb 2024 Advised The Good Kind Group in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Jan 2024 Advised Bear Staffing in its sale to Confidential Company

Plethora Businesses

44 Total Closed Deals
Plethora Businesses is a leading M&A firm specializing in business sales, mergers, acquisitions and valuations for privately owned businesses.

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  • Jan 2026 Advised SVM Machining, Inc in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Aug 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Apr 2025 Advised Ferralloy, Inc. in its sale to EQI
  • Nov 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company

MergerTech Advisors

43 Total Closed Deals
MergerTech is the investment bank by technology entrepreneurs for technology entrepreneurs. We use our deep domain expertise and buyer relationships, incredibly experienced bankers, and our global platform to enable our clients to convert their work into wealth through M&A exits to both strategic and financial buyers.MergerTech leaders have expertise in all aspects of technology investment banking, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raises for growth or recapitalization, and a spectrum of advisory services. Step by step, we help prepare and present our clients for the best possible…

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  • Mar 2014 Advised Simple in its sale to BBVA
  • Mar 2014 Advised HPM Networks in its sale to CANCOM SE
  • Dec 2013 Advised WellnessFX in its sale to Health Elements
  • Aug 2013 Advised Mutual Mobile on an investment from WPP

Adam Noble Group

42 Total Closed Deals
For 3 decades, we have guided business owners confidentially to exit their business for the biggest paycheck of their life! Adam Noble Group LLC provides discreet, confidential business valuation and ownership transfers of privately held companies. Our multiple specialties including Aerospace and Defense, Oilfield services, Technology, Construction trades, Craft Breweries, Partnership Buyouts, Patented products, Manufacturing, Service and Wholesale Distributors. Our experienced intermediary services including valuation, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, buyer searches and…

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  • Jul 2026 Advised TX Fiberoptic Construction in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Jan 2026 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Sep 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Mar 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company

Raincatcher

41 Total Closed Deals
Raincatcher is a lower middle market M&A advisory firm comprised of investment bankers, entrepreneurs, CPA's, and prior business owners. The company offers transaction advisory services to businesses between $1m-$10M in EBITDA nationwide.

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  • Sep 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Sep 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Jul 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Apr 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
GPCP is a Merger & Acquisition advisory firm founded to provide the highest level of performance and success for clients while using honesty and integrity throughout each relationship. The Management Team of GPCP brings over 30 years of successful transactional and business advisory experience to each client engagement.Whether you are looking to sell your business, buy a business, create a succession/exit plan to maximize the value of your business or need financing to grow your business, we can help you. We side with the philosophy to always do the right thing in any circumstance, as we…

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  • Aug 2026 Assisted Raptor Manufacturing in securing debt financing from Confidential Company
  • May 2026 Advised Polymeric in its sale to Nocopi Technologies
  • May 2026 Advised Texas-based Valve Manufacturer in its sale to Strategic Buyer
  • Nov 2025 Advised Distinctive Quality Painting in its sale to Paint Innovators
TECACQ M&A, specializes in Mergers & Acquisitions, ESOP’s, and Corporate Finance, with services in Business Development Strategy, Pre-Due Diligence Support, and Post Merger Transactions, for closely held middle-market companies.Our firm has gained access to literally thousands of qualified buyers and sellers both domestically & internationally. TECACQ has progressed by adopting the simple philosophy of professionalism and service. We serve most industries from Energy, Service, Manufacturing, Distribution, Technology, Security, and Health Care.

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  • May 2016 Advised Southwest Information Technology Company in its sale to Undisclosed Buyer
  • Apr 2016 Advised Oil & Gas Chemical Company in its sale to Undisclosed Buyer
  • Apr 2016 Advised East Coast Security Patrol Service in its sale to Undisclosed Buyer
  • Apr 2016 Advised European "French" Fashion Distributor in its sale to Undisclosed Buyer
If you’re looking to sell, grow or otherwise manage the long-term needs of your healthcare business, consider working with the industry’s best at United MedCare Capital, a merger and acquisition advisory firm serving the healthcare market. We specialize in helping clients traverse these complex and important milestones at minimum hassle and maximum profit. Here are just a few of the characteristics and practices that make us the ideal choice for your business valuation, exit planning, sales or acquisition needs: Proven expertise in the healthcare-related business world. Strong…

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  • Dec 2024 Advised AC Home Care in its sale to Attend Home Care
  • Jul 2024 Advised Professional Home Care Services in its sale to Confidential Company
  • May 2024 Advised Choice Home Health in its sale to Vital Health Care Services
  • Apr 2024 Advised Tender Hearts in its sale to Nova Leap

Frequently Asked Questions

How are M&A Advisory Firms in this directory ordered?

Firms in the United States M&A Advisory Firms directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

What information is included in each M&A Advisory Firm profile?

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

What company sizes are most common for United States M&A Advisory Firms?

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for United States M&A Advisory Firms is $3M-$16M, with a core EBITDA range of $500K-$3M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

How important is location when evaluating M&A Advisory Firms?

Location can be an important consideration, but it does not necessarily define where a firm is active. Firms based in United States may bring regional knowledge, local relationships, and experience with businesses in the area, while many also pursue opportunities across a broader geographic footprint. Geography is best considered alongside sector focus, company size, and relevant transaction activity.

Do all M&A Advisory Firms in this directory operate exclusively in United States?

Not necessarily. A firm’s location does not always define its geographic reach. Many M&A Advisory Firms based in United States are active across multiple regions, while firms based elsewhere may also participate in the United States market. Location can provide useful context, but it should not be interpreted as a firm’s geographic boundary.

How do I compare M&A Advisory Firms in United States?

When comparing M&A Advisory Firms in United States, consider factors such as sector focus, size range, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 1,380 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

How do I connect with United States M&A Advisory Firms?

Axial can help you identify and connect with firms based on your objectives and what you are looking to accomplish. The process varies depending on your role and transaction needs. If you are interested in connecting with firms in the United States M&A Advisory Firms directory, you can request information here.


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