Most owners we speak to expected the process to be simpler than it turned out to be. You engage a broker. You wait for a listing to be prepared. You sit through a parade of buyers who were never serious. Somewhere around month nine, someone asks for three years of tax returns and a customer list, and you start wondering whether it was worth starting.
We’re a buyer, not a broker. There’s no listing, no marketing period, and no queue of people kicking the tyres. One conversation tells you whether we’re a fit. If we are, we can often move to an offer within a couple of weeks.
Discretion
When you sell through a broker, your business goes on the open market. That means a memorandum, a price, and your company quietly becoming visible to competitors, customers and eventually your own staff.
We buy directly. Nothing is listed, nothing is advertised, and nothing is shared with anyone. In most cases the only people who know we’ve spoken are you and us.
That matters more than speed for a lot of owners. You can have a conversation about what your business is worth without anyone finding out you had it.
What we’re buying
We’re interested because the business runs, the phone rings, and the name means something locally. That reputation took twenty or thirty years to build and it isn’t something we intend to dismantle.
We’re not looking for a turnaround. We’re not buying it for the equipment or the customer list. We’re buying it because it works, and our job afterwards is to keep it working.
The deal
Cash. Seller financing. An earn-out. Retained equity if you’d rather keep a stake. Some owners want to walk away in ninety days. Others want to stay involved for a few years without the weight of ownership.
We build the deal around what you actually want out of it, which is a conversation most sellers never get to have. The number matters, but so does what happens on the Monday after.
Your people
You’ve probably heard stories about what happens when private equity buys a business like yours. Some of them are true.
We’re not going to tell you nothing changes, because that would be a promise we can’t keep and you’d be right not to believe it. What we will do is be specific with you about what a transition looks like — what stays the same, what would change, and why.
The people who’ve been with you fifteen years are part of why the business is worth buying. We want them to do well under new ownership. We’ll talk to you honestly about how that works rather than handing you a guarantee neither of us can enforce.
How it goes
One conversation tells you whether there’s a fit.
If there is, we’ll tell you and we’ll move. If there isn’t, we’ll tell you that too — on the same call, along with the reason. You won’t be strung along for a month while we “run it past the committee.”
And if we’re not the right buyer, that isn’t the end of the conversation. Depending on where your business sits, the better answer is sometimes to sell it on the open market at today’s number, or to spend a year making it worth considerably more first. We’ll tell you which of those we think applies, whether or not it involves us.
Most owners are surprised how far apart those numbers are.
No obligation. Nothing is shared with anyone.
Start here or call 448-288-6406Any offer to purchase is subject to the business meeting Dhamma Capital Partners’ acquisition criteria and to review of financial information. Where we do not make an offer, we will provide an indicative valuation range.