M&A Advisory

Thinking about buying or selling a marketing communications firm or digital agency? GrowthLab offers a range of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financial advisory services to facilitate successful transactions.

Sell-Side Services

The GrowthLab principals have personally built and sold several companies and have helped nearly a dozen agency owners optimize their businesses for acquisition. Whether you’re considering a sale to an external buyer or hoping to hand over your business to a current employee, you can lean on our experience to maximize your firm’s value. Our sell-side services include:

• Exit strategy and succession planning

• Target prospecting, tracking, and outreach

• Preparation and delivery of NDAs and Investment Briefs

• Meeting coordination and facilitation

• Deal structuring and negotiations

• Assistance with due diligence production responses

• Preparation of closing statement and other financial documents

Buy-Side Services

We have more than 50 years of combined experience working in the advertising space and have led both private and publicly held agencies through various stages of growth. We understand the qualities that are essential to long-term success—and we can quickly recognize red flags that prospective buyers might otherwise overlook. Our buy-side services include:

• Acquisition planning

• Evaluation of target operations, management, market, and competitive positioning

• Financial review and performance forecasting

• Target outreach

• Financing recommendations

• Deal structuring and negotiations