Ontario Business Brokers is a boutique M&A advisory practice for founder-led and family-owned businesses. We are not a franchise. We are not a marketplace. Engagements are limited by design, and every client works directly with senior advisors.
When a firm represents both sides of a transaction, its loyalty is divided, its incentives are compromised, and its negotiating leverage is neutralized. The seller pays for an advocate and receives an intermediary.
We work exclusively for sellers. Every buyer we approach knows they are dealing with the seller's advisor, and negotiates accordingly.
Confidentiality is not a policy here. It is a discipline. In 18 years, we have had zero confidentiality breaches.
That methodology is what we call Exit Architecture. Every business has hidden strengths that buyers will pay premium multiples for, and hidden weaknesses that will erode the offer or kill the deal in due diligence. Most owners do not know which is which until it is too late.
What makes the business defensible and hard to replicate, stated in the terms an acquirer underwrites against.
Not the ones the owner is proudest of. The ones that move a multiple.
Owner-dependence is the single most common reason acquisition offers come in below expectations. It is also the most fixable, given time.
Position the business at the top of its category rather than in the middle of a listing page.
Protect value from post-retrade erosion. Structure decides what the owner keeps, not just the headline number.
Long before the first buyer conversation.
Specific company names, financial details, and buyer identities are never disclosed, during or after a deal. What follows is a sample.
Founded Ontario Business Brokers. Certified Business Intermediary, personally representing sellers through every engagement. Over 18 years of M&A advisory experience leading the confidential, seller-first sale of family-owned and privately held businesses across Ontario and Canada.
Provides regulatory oversight under his firm, Equitas M&A, with decades of professional depth in business brokerage, financial analysis, and private company valuation. His registered brokerage provides the framework under which OBB operates as an independent M&A advisory practice.
Specializes in business succession and ownership transition planning, working with privately owned businesses to prepare for sale, support valuations, and guide owners through the transition process.
Oversees client relations and the day-to-day coordination of active engagements, from the first meeting through to closing.
Most owners approach the largest transaction of their working life with no representation, or with a broker whose loyalty is split. If you advise business owners, you have watched what that costs them.
We maintain a Trusted Advisor Network of accountants, lawyers, and wealth advisors whose clients are approaching a transition. Engagements are limited by design, and referred owners work directly with senior advisors from the first conversation.
No obligation. No pressure. Complete confidentiality.