We take the company to market properly.
We establish value, prepare the operating story, identify qualified buyers, manage confidential outreach, negotiate the whole offer, and keep diligence moving.
See the sell-side processFor owners and acquirers
Your life's work deserves a real process.
Legacy Broker represents buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions across the United States. We run the process that turns a company an owner spent a lifetime building into a transaction that actually closes.
Representation
The process is the product.
A serious transaction is not a listing. It is a sequence of decisions—prepared, controlled, negotiated, and carried through close.
We find and close the acquisition that fits.
We define the thesis, map the market, approach owners directly, qualify opportunities, support diligence, and structure a transaction that can hold together.
See the buy-side process
What is at stake
A company is more than an asset.
It is years of decisions, customer trust, working knowledge, people, equipment, and reputation. The transaction should respect the weight of what changes hands.
We do not reduce a lifetime of work to a listing and a buyer list.
The work
One accountable team, through close.
Legacy Broker remains responsible for the continuity of the process. Each stage informs the next; nothing important disappears in a handoff.
Prepare
Establish value, resolve what will not survive diligence, and make the company's operating story clear without overstating it.
Control the market
Decide who sees the company, when they see it, what they receive, and what qualifies them to continue.
Negotiate the whole offer
Price matters. So do structure, certainty, timing, working capital, transition, and the people who remain.
Close
Keep buyers, counsel, accountants, diligence requests, documents, and decisions moving until funds transfer.
The founders
Named partners. Direct responsibility.
The people who begin the conversation remain responsible for the quality of the process and the outcome it produces.
Scott McGrath
Scott works with owners at the intersection of enterprise value, transaction readiness, and the personal decisions that follow a sale.
Founder portrait pending approved source photographyThiago Souza
Thiago works across buyer strategy, opportunity qualification, transaction structure, and the operating realities behind an acquisition.
Founder portrait pending approved source photographyA confidential beginning
Start with what can be said now.
You do not need a complete file or a final decision. A first conversation is enough to establish where the process should begin.
Begin a confidential inquiry