Top M&A Advisory Firms in Chicago - Axial

Stevenson & Company is a highly successful merger and acquisition advisory firm that has worked with mid-size companies for 30 years in the sale or acquisition of hundreds of businesses. We work closely with you to guide your people through a sale or purchase to achieve maximum rewards. Because all of our advisors have either owned or run their own businesses, we have the first-hand knowledge it takes to strategically position and complete a successful company sale or purchase. Stevenson & Company is only satisfied when the results of a transaction meet or exceed your business and personal…

Caber Hill Advisors is committed to working with business owners so they can successfully fulfill their personal and professional legacies. We serve small and middle market companies, in very specific verticals, who want to either sell their business or make an acquisition. Our firm's innovative approach combines the best elements of the local business brokerage community and the large, very expensive investment banks. The result is that our clients receive individualized attention and expert guidance specific to their industries. Our professionals have all worked in the markets we now serve,…

Tsalach Corporate Finance was formed by Paul Nelsen with the aim of becoming the leading broker of privately held businesses in the UK and North America. The word Tsalach - pronounced zalak – means prosperity, success and to go forward in power. This seemed to us an ideal name that sums up our ethos and intent. Paul Nelsen began his career in Wall Street with legendary investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; “the house that research built” and then with the Chicago Private Equity pioneer GTCR - Golder Thoma Cressey Rauner. Since 1995 Mr. Nelsen has become a leader in selling…

Mart Partners is a M&A Advisory firm. We work closely with business owners to execute business sales and acquisitions. Our focus is on businesses from over $2 million in sales to $100 million or more. We work are industry agnostic and work throughout the U.S.

MidCap Ltd is an M&A Advisory firm, which caters to the middle market. Our clients are primarily closely-held companies in service, technology, manufacturing and distribution industries with annual revenues of $5 - $150 million and selected early stage businesses. MidCap serves as a specialized business and financial advisor in the sale, merger, purchase or recapitalization of a company, corporate development, business combination and restructuring transactions.

Focus Capital Advisors, Inc (FCA) is comprised of a talented team of dealmakers that are proud to have closed over 200 transactions during their respective careers. Our highly skilled professionals provide clients with powerful strategies for optimizing the value of each transaction. This is accomplished through creative tax strategies, solid industry experience and contacts and the ability to solve problems to get the deal done. Many of our clients have built very good companies with solid products or services, good technologies and hard working people but turning all of that into cash or…

Triangle Healthcare Advisors, LLC is a registered business broker and mergers and acquisitions advisory firm specializing exclusively in healthcare services. Our Partners have led Mergers & Acquisitions for Walgreens, Pediatric Services of America, Option Care, and Omnicare (part of CVS Healthcare). 

We help the owners of privately held corporations in the selling process. Our over fifty years of combined experience in the Midwest Mergers and Acquisitions market gives both buyer and seller the confidence of knowing the transaction will be handled professionally.

SLS Capital Advisors, LLC is a boutique financial advisory firm headquartered inChicago. Our singular focus is on the unique challenges and opportunities facingmiddle market firms. From the deep industry, financial, and consulting backgroundsof our firm’s partners and affiliates, we employ both breadth and depth of experience to drive insights and results for firms seeking strategic options for growth, and for those evaluating corporate transitions.With a guiding principle of long-term value creation, our clients are able to maximize options for their destinies — whether that is organic…

Since 1954, Chapman has provided middle market companies (currently valued between $3 million and $150 million) with the same resources, expertise and representation that is usually available only to much larger companies. Chapman is recognized as one of the top mergers and acquisitions firms not only in Schaumburg, Illinois. But in the country. Our clients receive complete, confidential consulting and advisory services throughout the merger or acquisition process.

The founders of Advocate Capital Advisors are investment bankers and entrepreneurs who have owned, operated, grown, and exited companies very successfully. Some have been members of family offices or executives of large corporations who regularly acquired companies, so we also understand the mindset and behaviors of buyers, investors, and lenders.We also understand the confidentiality and discretion that is required to minimize market damage to our clients’ companies and the sensitivities associated with employees, customers, suppliers, and competitors. There are many elements of the M&A…

Lakeside Acquisitions is a premier Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory firm with the sole focus of representing owners of privately held businesses who are looking to maximize value on their sale proceeds. When combined with our proprietary process, buyer network, and deal prowess, we routinely deliver results above our clients’ expectations. We are purposefully not a “Jack of All Trades” nor are we industry agnostic. We only take on select client engagements in specific industries where we can add significant value. Clients find that our success fee pays for itself as our deal experience…

Front Runner Consulting, LLC is an M&A intermediary for MBO executives and companies seeking capital. About Front Runner Consulting, LLC Front Runner Consulting® started as an executive search business. Client-customers include turnaround and restructuring firms, finance companies providing advisory service, private equity groups, law firms, and investment bankers. Prior to starting Front Runner Consulting, Dave Marx was the number one recruiter within his office for one of the world's largest executive search firms. Business Recruiter Because Front Runner Consulting works with business…

Our goal is to assist our clients in the creation of value and to guide them so that they can achieve optimal results, as they take their business to the next stage in its evolution.As a boutique investment banking firm, we find our client’s hidden value and through our analysis and innovative thinking, as professionals, we have been trained to optimize business infrastructure and all its ancillary systems. Our intent is to provide our clients with the best options to meet their business objectives.

Bleadon & Assoc., Ltd was started in 1982 as a financial services firm servicing the C-suite and corporate marketplace. We have evolved throughout the years to today specializing in M&A advisory, investment banking, and business development services for companies in the middle market. Founded as a generalist firm by design, we have come to develop strategic focus to the Technology, Energy and Pharma sectors.Our company achieves excellent results due to a wide variety of industry experience and global contacts. With our Chicago based office, and a wide range of US and International contacts,…

Rush Street Capital finds solutions for your middle market business.  Rush Street Capital is a team of dedicated professionals with deep experience in the commercial middle market.  We provide capital and advisory services to private equity firms, business owners and lenders.  We strive for excellence in all that we do.  We are committed to serving your company and your needs.

Community banks play an important role in communities across the country, and the experts at MDI Investments are passionate about helping these institutions thrive. We achieve this by identifying risk and opportunity. MDI Investments focuses specifically on mergers and acquisitions, business valuations, financial restructuring and capital initiatives.MDI Investments professionals have a long history of raising substantial capital for public and private institutions through multiple business cycles. Team members have a solid track record of completing deals in challenging markets and economic…

Through our years of experience, Lighthouse Business Brokers has established a powerful buyer network with thousands of qualified buyers that covers almost every industry. Our buyer's database is comprised of active professional investors and private equity firms that have been through the acquisition process previously and ensures we get your business in front of thousands of qualified buyers on the first day.

As a business brokerage firm we represent sellers in the business for sale marketplace. We ensure a confidential marketing campaign to protect the viability of each enterprise throughout the transaction life cycle, and provide a structured and transparent process that facilitates successful transactions.

Our firm has over 65 years of combined experience to help a company from its start up to helping its executives plan their exit strategy. Whether you are a startup company or introducing a new product into an industry, we can help you with the marketing plan and implementation. With our Turnbridge Financial Group division, we provide the full complement of risk management and financial planning services to employee groups and company executives. With our mergers and acquisition division, Turnbridge Finaincial Group, MA, we have experienced finders, business brokers and attorney partners who…