Top 20 Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting Firms - 2023

The business world is in a state of perpetual transformation. And in this dynamic environment, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have emerged as pivotal strategies for companies striving to remain competitive, expand, and innovate. In today’s business landscape, M&A consulting has assumed an even more crucial role, helping organizations navigate the complexities of these high-stakes transactions. M&A consulting, once considered a specialized service, has evolved into an indispensable ally for businesses of all sizes.

According to a recent study from Research from Markets, the global market for M&A advisory could hit a size of $30.5 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 2.8 percent until then. The growth of the market can be attributed to the increasing number of M&A deals, rising demand for M&A advisory services from small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and the growing need for experienced professionals in the M&A space.

One of the central functions of M&A consultants is conducting rigorous due diligence. In an era when information is abundant but discernment is scarce, M&A consultants harness the power of data and analytics to identify potential targets, assess their value, and uncover untapped opportunities.

This edition of Business Management Review delivers a bird’s eye view of the recent developments in the mergers and acquisitions consulting arena and insights into how companies align with these latest trends to transform legacy practices and improve outcomes.

We have curated thought leadership articles from industry experts, including Douglas Maxwell, Chief Financial Officer at American First Finance and Matthew Waugh, Executive Director of Finance and Operations at Furnitureland South.

We also took a deep dive into the market trends to narrow down the list of companies delivering unparalleled mergers and acquisitions consulting solutions and services. Equipped with innovative technological capabilities, companies like Roman Consulting Group, help transform businesses at the cloverleaf of various disruptive technologies.

We hope this edition of Business Management Review on Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting helps you build the partnership you and your organization need to foster an environment driven by efficient technology.

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Roman Consulting Group

The Roman Consulting Group is a merger and acquisition consulting firm specializing in private, middle-market transactions. It facilitates corporate acquisitions, management buyouts, strategic mergers, and minority equity investments for private companies, helping them raise capital for growth, create equity opportunities for management, and reap strategic benefits.

We Act As an Intermediary Between Buyers and Sellers of Private Companies, Helping Them Successfully Meet Their Merger and Acquisition Objectives Through A Deep Understanding of Their Needs

John Roman, President & CEO
Roman Consulting Group

The Roman Consulting Group is a merger and acquisition consulting firm specializing in private, middle-market transactions. It facilitates corporate acquisitions, management buyouts, strategic mergers, and minority equity investments for private companies, helping them raise capital for growth, create equity opportunities for management, and reap strategic benefits.
We Act As an Intermediary Between Buyers and Sellers of Private Companies, Helping Them Successfully Meet Their Merger and Acquisition Objectives Through A Deep Understanding of Their Needs

John Roman, President & CEO
Freeman-Logan

Freeman Logan plays a pivotal role in helping sell-side companies determine their value for potential buyers. Its holistic pre-transaction due diligence support empowers clients to make informed decisions on the brink of a sale. It acts as a buffer against unforeseen hurdles during the transaction process.

We prepare businesses for the market by amplifying their strengths and addressing weaknesses. This preparation is key for successful transactions

Russell Logan, Founder
Freeman-Logan

Freeman Logan plays a pivotal role in helping sell-side companies determine their value for potential buyers. Its holistic pre-transaction due diligence support empowers clients to make informed decisions on the brink of a sale. It acts as a buffer against unforeseen hurdles during the transaction process.
We prepare businesses for the market by amplifying their strengths and addressing weaknesses. This preparation is key for successful transactions

Russell Logan, Founder
Hall Render Advisory Services

Hall Render Advisory Services delivers operational and strategic guidance to help healthcare companies navigate complex transactions. We assist healthcare organizations with issues related to compliance, GME, human resources, IT, M&A, pharmacy, 340B, pharmacy benefits, real estate, reimbursement, and financial strategy.

M&A activities are always a disruption— to your people and the business. We partner with Hall Render attorneys to streamline and ease the transaction and integration burden for clients in M&A projects

Dan Cumberland, Principal Advisor and Colleen M. Powers, Attorney & Advisor
Hall Render Advisory Services

Hall Render Advisory Services delivers operational and strategic guidance to help healthcare companies navigate complex transactions. We assist healthcare organizations with issues related to compliance, GME, human resources, IT, M&A, pharmacy, 340B, pharmacy benefits, real estate, reimbursement, and financial strategy.
M&A activities are always a disruption— to your people and the business. We partner with Hall Render attorneys to streamline and ease the transaction and integration burden for clients in M&A projects

Dan Cumberland, Principal Advisor and Colleen M. Powers, Attorney & Advisor
Salt Creek Partners

Salt Creek Partners (SCP) is a prominent player in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape, known for its innovative and flexible approach tailored to the unique needs of growing and middle-market companies. It excels in customizing strategies to precisely meet the specific needs of its clients through comprehensive services, including business valuation, strategy consulting, sell-side and buy-side advisory, as well as build-to-exit strategies.

We believe that M&A deals are a turning point for a company's life cycle, where we proactively guide clients by strengthening their company's positioning and ensuring their continued success

Naoto Hall, Managing Director
Salt Creek Partners

Salt Creek Partners (SCP) is a prominent player in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape, known for its innovative and flexible approach tailored to the unique needs of growing and middle-market companies. It excels in customizing strategies to precisely meet the specific needs of its clients through comprehensive services, including business valuation, strategy consulting, sell-side and buy-side advisory, as well as build-to-exit strategies.
We believe that M&A deals are a turning point for a company's life cycle, where we proactively guide clients by strengthening their company's positioning and ensuring their continued success

Naoto Hall, Managing Director
100 Day Advisory Partners
100 Day Advisory Partners, a technology-focused M&A advisory firm dedicated to serving the middle market, uses its extensive enterprise IT experience to tailor analysis, recommendations, and execution to serve their modest needs.
100 Day Advisory Partners

100 Day Advisory Partners, a technology-focused M&A advisory firm dedicated to serving the middle market, uses its extensive enterprise IT experience to tailor analysis, recommendations, and execution to serve their modest needs.
Advanced Strategic Partners
Advanced Strategic Partners offers advisory services explicitly aimedat “”assisting in the determination”” if the business is positioned to sell.
Advanced Strategic Partners

Advanced Strategic Partners offers advisory services explicitly aimedat “”assisting in the determination”” if the business is positioned to sell.
Align Business Advisory Services
Align Business Advisory Services understands the ambiguity of what comes next since this is a team of entrepreneurs, previous business owners, executives, and operators. That is the reason they do the things they do.
Align Business Advisory Services

Align Business Advisory Services understands the ambiguity of what comes next since this is a team of entrepreneurs, previous business owners, executives, and operators. That is the reason they do the things they do.
Ardent Advisory Group
Ardent Advisory Group seeks to understand its client’s strategic goals before executing a plan to meet them. Along with transaction considerations, they realize that time, tax difficulties, future engagement, business heritage, and other aspects differ depending on each client’s unique scenario.
Ardent Advisory Group

Ardent Advisory Group seeks to understand its client’s strategic goals before executing a plan to meet them. Along with transaction considerations, they realize that time, tax difficulties, future engagement, business heritage, and other aspects differ depending on each client’s unique scenario.
Chinook Capital Advisors
Chinook Capital Advisors is an associate of the Alliance of International Corporate Advisors (AICA), an international group of top middle-market M&A advising companies that offers clients local access to buyers, investors, and acquisition targets worldwide.
Chinook Capital Advisors

Chinook Capital Advisors is an associate of the Alliance of International Corporate Advisors (AICA), an international group of top middle-market M&A advising companies that offers clients local access to buyers, investors, and acquisition targets worldwide.
Eminence M&A Strategies
Eminence M&A Strategies specializes in assisting founder-led enterprises in selling their privately owned company.
Eminence M&A Strategies

Eminence M&A Strategies specializes in assisting founder-led enterprises in selling their privately owned company.
Energy Business Consulting
Energy Business Consulting, LLC is a group of industry specialists that includes business owners, CFOs, business development professionals, and energy sector experts.
Energy Business Consulting

Energy Business Consulting, LLC is a group of industry specialists that includes business owners, CFOs, business development professionals, and energy sector experts.
Generational Equity
In the last decade, Generational Equity has closed more acquisitions in the middle market than any other M&A company. They are solidly established as leaders within the sector, thanks to multiple honors from reputable authorities such as The M&A Advisor and Inc. 500.
Generational Equity

In the last decade, Generational Equity has closed more acquisitions in the middle market than any other M&A company. They are solidly established as leaders within the sector, thanks to multiple honors from reputable authorities such as The M&A Advisor and Inc. 500.
Genz & Associates
Genz & Associates is a prominent buy-side mergers and acquisitions advisory firm. They serve as a trusted adviser to private equity firms, family offices, and corporate acquirers looking to participate in industry-specific infrastructure investments, addon/ strategic acquisitions, & buy-and-build strategies.
Genz & Associates

Genz & Associates is a prominent buy-side mergers and acquisitions advisory firm. They serve as a trusted adviser to private equity firms, family offices, and corporate acquirers looking to participate in industry-specific infrastructure investments, addon/ strategic acquisitions, & buy-and-build strategies.
Morrissey Goodale
Morrissey Goodale’s trusted experts can help the company through the whole merger and acquisition process if it is considering purchasing or selling an architecture, engineering, or environmental consulting business. They distinguish themselves from other AE merger and acquisition organizations by their database of M&A pricing activity and their compilation of national and international AE buyers and sellers.
Morrissey Goodale

Morrissey Goodale’s trusted experts can help the company through the whole merger and acquisition process if it is considering purchasing or selling an architecture, engineering, or environmental consulting business. They distinguish themselves from other AE merger and acquisition organizations by their database of M&A pricing activity and their compilation of national and international AE buyers and sellers.
Odyssey Capital
Odyssey Capital is an emerging boutique M&A advising business focused on the insurance distribution sector. With an emphasis on corporate preparedness, attention to detail, and a flexible price schedule based on performance, they help owners in the Retail, Wholesale, Program Administration, and MGA areas optimize value.
Odyssey Capital

Odyssey Capital is an emerging boutique M&A advising business focused on the insurance distribution sector. With an emphasis on corporate preparedness, attention to detail, and a flexible price schedule based on performance, they help owners in the Retail, Wholesale, Program Administration, and MGA areas optimize value.
Outcome Capital
Outcome Capital is a specialized life sciences, including healthcare advising and investment banking business that offers value-added, market-aligned mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and corporate financing services to creative firms.
Outcome Capital

Outcome Capital is a specialized life sciences, including healthcare advising and investment banking business that offers value-added, market-aligned mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and corporate financing services to creative firms.
Palm Tree
Palm Tree, as a trusted adviser throughout the M&A process, provides its private equity customers with the clarity to foresee, act, and respond decisively to M&A possibilities. With each deliverable, these specialized services bring clarity and insight.
Palm Tree

Palm Tree, as a trusted adviser throughout the M&A process, provides its private equity customers with the clarity to foresee, act, and respond decisively to M&A possibilities. With each deliverable, these specialized services bring clarity and insight.
Plethora Businesses
Plethora Businesses is a top M&A business specializing in mergers, acquisitions, and valuations. Since 1999, the firm has successfully advised company owners and investors across the United States.
Plethora Businesses

Plethora Businesses is a top M&A business specializing in mergers, acquisitions, and valuations. Since 1999, the firm has successfully advised company owners and investors across the United States.
Sabre Capital
Sabre Capital has been combining exceptional M&A ability with high-touch service and an unwavering emphasis on confidentiality since 1984 to work with customers to create winning strategies & execute successful deals that surpass their expectations.
Sabre Capital

Sabre Capital has been combining exceptional M&A ability with high-touch service and an unwavering emphasis on confidentiality since 1984 to work with customers to create winning strategies & execute successful deals that surpass their expectations.
SLKone
SLKone specializes in determining the level of integration required and is willing to roll up its sleeves to assist – not just direct – project & organizational management for effective M&A integration.
SLKone

SLKone specializes in determining the level of integration required and is willing to roll up its sleeves to assist – not just direct – project & organizational management for effective M&A integration.