Your Mid-Market M&A Navigator
IN STREAM WITH YOUR BUSINESS
SELLING your Business?
Blue River equips business owners with empowering knowledge. This leads to regret-free outcomes when selling all or a portion of the business
BUYING a Business?
Blue River represents and advises some of the world’s most sophisticated professional investors of privately held middle market companies
Don’t Go It Alone
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISIONS YOU WILL EVER MAKE
“I wish I knew then what I know now about selling a company.
I would have done things differently.”
As an owner, the transfer of all or part of your business ownership will rank among the most important decisions of your lifetime
Yet many enter the M&A arena without a full or accurate understanding of the essential knowledge vital to optimal outcomes.
You need a guide through the turbulent waters of M&A.
BE REGRET FREE
Blue River’s mission is to equip first-time or serial-sellers with empowering knowledge that leads to optimal transactional outcomes.
And because Blue River represents and advises some of the world’s most sophisticated professional private company investors, the knowledge we impart is extraordinarily relevant to owners of privately held middle market companies.
Expertise
M&A Advisory Success Across Industries
Blue River’s clients have interests in many industries and sectors. We are armed with deep industry insights and extensive M&A expertise. Blue River’s senior-level team executes engagements with remarkable competence. Our success covers a broad swath of industries including Energy, Communications, Healthcare, Information Technology, Software, Automotive, Steel, Food & Beverage, Chemical, Education, Building Products, Natural Resources, Aerospace & Defense, Engineering Services and many other manufacturing, distribution and service sectors.
Knowledge + Experience
WISDOM Is What Matters
Knowledge is important, but if it isn’t coupled with experience, it’s not worth much. Wisdom is what counts – the marriage of both knowledge and experience. We founded Blue River to provide you with the specific wisdom required to attain a regret-free M&A transaction.
With as much time, money, effort, and care you’ve put into your business, you can’t afford to make even one misstep in your M&A transaction.
Whether selling or buying, let the Blue River M&A Advisory team provide you with the wisdom we’ve attained to ensure your transaction is regret-free!
BRYAN BERENT & WILLIAM LOFTIS
Managing Partners
Bryan Berent
William Loftis
Portfolio
Regret-Free Transactions
Blue River’s transactions include the sale and purchase of private companies, joint ventures, structuring and financing of management buyouts and management buy-ins, industry roll-ups, recapitalizations and private placements.
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BLUE RIVER’S SARA CLEVENGER EXPLORES M&A’S TUMULTUOUS YEAR
Blue River's Sara Clevenger looks back at M&A’s interesting 2020, and looks ahead, discussing what changes in perceptions and approaches could color 2021. Read the article here!
Blue River Advises in the Acquisition of Rustic Escentuals and Elements Bath & Body
by Wholesale Supplies Plus, an Incline Equity Partners Portfolio Company
Blue River Financial Group has advised Wholesale Supplies Plus, a leading B2B distributor of consumable supplies and provider of services to commercial artisans (“WSP”) and portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners (“Incline”), on their acquisitions of both Rustic...
Bryan Berent of Blue River Financial Group featured on AMAA’s M&A Access Show
This week’s M&A Access features Bryan Berent, Managing Partner, Blue River. Berent deciphers the activity on the buy-and-sell side—PE firms have “jumped back into the market with both feet.” Also, as an M&A advisor, Berent unveils hidden value drivers that make the...