About

Business Transition Strategies

(BTS) is a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) firm focused on the lower-mid market. We provide buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory services to private companies, generally with revenues between $2 million and $20 million mostly within New England and New York. Our range of services are designed to help owners prepare and complete a transfer. With offices in throughout New England we are well positioned to serve New England and beyond.

BTS continues to actively engage business owners across the region who are interested in selling. We welcome a chance for a conversation, whether the goal is to sell now or sometime in the future. Contact us if you would like to begin the conversation.

Business Transition Strategies

Our advisors work as a team

bringing a diversity of perspectives and talents to each engagement. Our team includes business owners, high level managers, sales professionals, business consultants and finance experts. We have been where you are now and draw upon over three decades of experience to help you. Our emphasis is on generating the best return on investment for owners. Our team members also can help owners prepare for the transition down the road, and make changes that will enhance values.

Our process

involves actively, and confidentially, analyzing your operation and then marketing it. We are not passive with our sales efforts; we research and identify prospects, and actively approach them directly. We also utilize web-based deal platforms and our own network of private equity firms, family offices, development offices as well as a database of highly capable individual buyers.

We develop

a professionally prepared, confidential business review package, detailing the company’s operations, which will be used to attract buyers. We serve as the intermediary between you and prospects, and manage the entire sales process, beginning to end. Our team works effectively and collaborates closely with other advisors who represent the company, including attorneys and accountants. Many of our engagements are the result of referrals from other professionals.

Selling your company now

provides the resources to achieve your goals. In some cases, a transaction can provide the owner a transition period between the all-consuming role of owner and retirement by still staying involved with the former business in a limited or advisory role. Whether you are selling to enjoy retirement, pursuing a recapitalization for growth or organizing a management buyout so your team can pursue its growth vision, BTS can advise you through the process.

Not ready to sell now?

Our team will help you identify and focus on issues that will maximize the value of your company when the time comes. In the process, these changes generally enhance operations and make ownership more enjoyable.

We develop

a professionally prepared, confidential business review package, detailing the company’s operations, which will be used to attract buyers. We serve as the intermediary between you and prospects, and manage the entire sales process, beginning to end. Our team works effectively and collaborates closely with other advisors who represent the company, including attorneys and accountants. Many of our engagements are the result of referrals from other professionals.

Not ready or don't know where to begin?

If your transition timeline is a year or more out, BTS can assist you in preparing and positioning your business for a transition down the road. Through advisory engagements, we help owners maximize the value of their businesses and enhance operations in ways that will pave the way for the next step whether that is an exit or a growth strategy. Our experience in the industry along with our associations and affiliations, give us insight into what is expected for a transition to successfully occur. Only a small fraction of privately held businesses successfully transfer either to the next generation or to an outside entity. Those best prepared with a strong foundation will achieve the best results.

Want to learn more? Contact us.

What our clients are saying...

“Skip and I continue to be grateful for all you have done to make the sale of Pure Flow come to fruition…your expertise, character and perseverance.”

- Mary Iltis, Seller

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