Peterson Acquisitions

Peterson Acquisitions is a business brokerage and M&A advisory firm headquartered in Kansas City, working with business owners who want to sell and with buyers acquiring companies. Sell-side work covers business valuation, confidential marketing, deal structuring and negotiation, and transaction management through closing.

On the buy side the firm works with acquisition entrepreneurs, strategic buyers, and investors, providing acquisition strategy, business opportunity evaluation, SBA financing guidance, due diligence support, and negotiation through closing and transition. Alongside brokerage it sells information products, coaching and consulting, and business modeling services, and it buys and sells companies through a private equity fund of its own.

The firm lists local offices in Mendota Heights, Minnesota; Castle Rock, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; Ballwin, Missouri near St. Louis; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and runs a partner program that places local representatives for its brand in major metropolitan areas across the United States. Its main line is (800) 845-0188.

Sellers should be clear about what is being engaged. The firm sells operating businesses rather than acting as a real estate brokerage, and it markets coaching and educational products alongside representation, so the scope of a given engagement is worth pinning down in the agreement.