Institutional rigor.
Principal judgment.
Griffin Advisory Group represents founders, ESOPs, and family-held businesses in sell-side and buy-side transactions — with the modeling discipline of a sponsor desk and the steady hand of a senior banker.
- Deal Size
- $50M – $400M
- Sectors
- Industrials · Services
- Typical Timeline
- 5 – 9 months
- Client Format
- Founder & ESOP
Four mandates. One standard of execution.
Sell-Side Advisory
Full-process M&A execution for privately held businesses, founders, and ESOPs. Positioning, buyer targeting, negotiation, and close — principal-led from first meeting to signing.
Buy-Side Advisory
Target identification, outreach, and transaction support for strategic and sponsor-backed acquirers. Quiet, relationship-led origination in middle-market sectors.
Acquirer Assessments
Institutional-grade evaluations of prospective acquirers — strategic fit, financial capacity, cultural alignment, and negotiation posture — delivered as a full written assessment with supporting model.
Valuation & Strategic Review
Third-party valuation opinions and component-parts reviews for shareholder, board, and transaction-readiness contexts. Segment-weighted, defensible, and model-backed.
Analysis built for the buyer's side of the table.
Tailored Acquirer Intelligence
Every assessment is built from primary analysis of the acquirer's archetype, capital stack, and post-transaction behavior — not a template. The report shows the buyer's view, not the seller's pitch.
Principal-Led Engagements
Griffin engagements are staffed and run by principals from kickoff through close. Clients work directly with the person writing the memo, modeling the deal, and sitting across the table.
Component-Parts Valuation
We value businesses the way private acquirers do — segment by segment, multiple by multiple, with defensible floors and a disciplined view of where the real premium comes from.
Field notes from the middle market.
Reading a first-round IOI: five tells the letter gives you before the banker does.
An indication of interest is a document that wants to be read quickly and discussed slowly. Five signals to look for before anyone starts negotiating the number.
The middle-market multiple at a 4% ten-year: what reset rates did to private valuation math.
The textbook said multiples should compress a full turn. In middle-market industrials and services, they mostly didn't. Three things held them up — and one of them is wearing thin.
Roll-up arithmetic, honestly told: where the 4×-in, 8×-out story actually breaks.
The headline arithmetic of a roll-up is not wrong. It is incomplete. Three specific places the math quietly leaks — and what the honest version looks like.
Start with a confidential conversation.
A thirty-minute call to understand your situation, timing, and options — with no obligation and nothing to prepare.