Sell-side advice for owner-led US companies

Your business deserves a trusted advisor

Confidential advice for owners of established US companies on what their business is worth, the options open to them, and the legacy they leave.

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You built it. The next decision deserves the same care.

Know your optionsA full sale is one route among several: private equity, a partial sale, a management buy-out, an employee-owned company, or passing it to family. Know its valueWhat buyers would pay for your company today, and what would move that number, before you decide anything. Protect its legacyYour name, your people, your customers: how each route treats what you built, and how to keep what matters most to you.

Who you would work with

25 years on every side of the table, including the owner’s chair

Mauro Terrinoni has advised the private equity funds and family offices that buy businesses like yours, negotiated cross-border deals at JP Morgan and Citigroup, and bought, run and sold a company as its owner. He understands what an owner-led business means to the people who built it, and acts for you at the moments that decide its future.

25 yearsInvestment banking and private equity

OneAdvisor, from the first call to closing

3 to 5Clients at a time, so each gets full attention

JP Morgan · Citigroup · Fortress Investment Group · CFA charterholder · MBA, Cornell University

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Start with a confidential conversation

An indicative view of what buyers would pay for your company today.

The options that fit your plans, including doing nothing for now.

Thirty minutes by phone or video. No obligation, no fee.

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Five industries. We know the buyers in each.

Industrial manufacturingMachining, fabrication, finishing, molding and electronics, including defense, aerospace and medical suppliers.

Contractors and building servicesElectrical, mechanical and HVAC, plumbing, fire and life safety, and specialty trades.

Food and beverage manufacturingMeat and poultry processors, co-packers, private label, bakery, specialty foods and ingredients.

Specialty chemicalsFormulators and blenders, coatings, adhesives, lubricants and plastics compounding.

Freight and specialized truckingTruckload and specialized carriers, freight forwarding, customs brokerage and warehousing.

Deal Notes

Who is buying companies like yours

Short notes on real acquisitions in our five industries: who bought whom, why buyers want businesses like these, and what each deal means for owners of similar companies.

Read the Deal Notes

Freight and logisticsOctober 6, 2026

Texas 3PL buys two family-owned border carriers in El Paso and Laredo

A cross-border logistics division acquires the trucking and warehousing businesses a father built, with the family staying on.

Freight and logisticsSeptember 8, 2026

Family-owned Ohio 3PL buys Toledo-area warehouse operation and its building

A Columbus logistics company adds its seventh Northwest Ohio warehouse, buying both the business and the property from a local family.

All Deal Notes

How owners sell, or don’t

All eleven guides

Selling to private equityHow private equity firms buy companies like yours, why they use debt, what you receive at closing and later, and what to negotiate.Earn-outsAn earn-out pays part of the price for a business only if it hits agreed targets after the sale.Minority investmentHow owners sell 20-40% of a private company to a family office or minority investor, keep control, and what investors ask for in return: board seats, consent rights, preferences and an exit date.Selling to an ESOPHow an employee stock ownership plan buys a company from its owner, how the price and financing work, the Section 1042 and S corporation tax rules, and who it suits.Management buy-outHow a management buy-out works, how managers finance it with bank debt, seller notes or a private equity partner, what the seller receives and when, and how to make it fair to both sides.Family successionHow owners pass a family business to the next generation: gifts and sales to children, the 2026 estate tax exemption, treating active and inactive children fairly, and handing over leadership.

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