Sell-side M&A for founder and family-owned businesses

Faithful stewardship.
Thoughtful transition.

As a faith-founded M&A advisory firm, we guide owners through both the transaction and the transition. Because, what comes next matters just as much as the deal itself.

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Explore Our Approach

When continuing forward means carrying more risk.

You have taken years of risk to grow your business. It's time to secure your family's future.

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Concentrated Wealth

After years of building, your business is worth more than your brokerage, 401K, and savings combined. Over time, the risk of having your family's future in one asset has become too high.

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Day-to-Day Stress

Years of stress from people issues, customer demands, and cash management, can take a toll. Many owners reach a point where the continued stress of the day-to-day becomes too much.

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Capital at Risk

Growing a business requires personal capital or debt with personal guarantees. As the capital requirements grow, some owners no longer want to put their future at risk to fund the company future.

HOW AN M&A TRANSACTION CAN HELP

Create liquidity, reduce risk, and choose your next chapter

The right sell-side process is designed to find the right outcome for you, your family, and your company.

Full Sale

A full sale converts business value into personal liquidity and creates a defined transition plan for you to exit the business.

Fully diversify your net worth

Remove your operating responsibility

Eliminate growth capital exposure

Partial Sale

A partial sale creates liquidity while allowing you to continue leading and participate in future growth.

Diversify majority your net worth

Share your operating responsibility

Access to growth capital

HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT

Built for owners who care about more than just the transaction

Quiet Waters combines rigorous transaction execution with a high-touch, owner-centered process designed to achieve the right outcome and prepare you for life after closing.

Transaction and Transition

Across $150M in closed deals, we’ve seen that life after closing matters as much as the deal itself. For many owners, the business has been a source of identity, community, and purpose. Quiet Waters helps owners pursue the right transaction while preparing thoughtfully for what comes next.

Rigorous Sell-Side Execution

We bring rigorous sell-side execution to founder and family-owned businesses with $1M-$10M of EBITDA. With more than $150M in transaction experience across residential and commercial services, professional services, healthcare, and manufacturing, we are experts at finding and negotiating the right deal for you.

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10% Giving Promise

Each successful transaction creates an opportunity to extend impact beyond the closing table. Quiet Waters commits 10% of its advisory fee to charitable causes, reflecting our belief that a successful outcome should create value for the owner, the business, and the broader community.

READY TO START THE CONVERSATION?

Considering what's next?

If you are beginning to think through timing, risk, family priorities, or life after closing, Quiet Waters can help you understand your options and build a plan.