How we verified this list
Every fact about every firm below came off that firm's own website, fetched September 14, 2026. Where a firm does not publish something, its profile says "Not published" rather than guessing. Four filters decided who made it.
The four inclusion filters
1. A genuine Atlanta metro headquarters or staffed office. Not a P.O. box, not a referral partner, and not a national network's generic state landing page. We checked the firm's own contact or about page for a street address inside the Atlanta metro.
2. Sell side capability for a private company. A firm that only advises buyers, or only runs financing, does not help a founder sell.
3. A checkable identity. A named legal entity, named individuals with published titles, or a firm level track record number the firm puts its own name to. Anonymous firms are not on this page.
4. Coverage across the deal size spectrum a real seller faces. We deliberately kept a step up firm and two step down brokers on the page rather than only listing lookalike lower middle market boutiques, because a founder below $3M or above $250M needs an honest answer too.
Cross referenced against: the Metro Atlanta Chamber's published key industries page, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's 2026 Beige Book reporting, the ProCloser Tech M&A Deal Index, and SEC and press release filings for named 2026 transactions. No firm paid for placement, and no firm reviewed its own entry before publication.
What we excluded, and why. Founders Advisors names no office address at all beyond "we serve founders everywhere," so we left it off. Cross Keys Capital has advised on an Atlanta area healthcare deal, but its own site lists Fort Lauderdale as headquarters with no separate Atlanta office, so it did not clear our first filter. We also excluded broker franchise pages that were thin lead capture forms with no named broker.
Our credential. ProCloser runs a public technology M&A deal index covering 1,740 tracked 2026 acquisitions through September 14. The dataset carries no city field, so we matched company names against known Atlanta headquartered firms and found four: NCR Atleos, Global Payments, Repay Holdings, and Cox Automotive, detailed below with source links. That is a small, name matched sample, not an audit of every 2026 Atlanta transaction.
Quick comparison table
All 14 firms, before the profiles. Deal size is what the firm publishes, or our read of its published client range. Registration is what the firm discloses on its own site; most of these boutiques disclose none.
| Firm | Deal size | Sectors | Fee model | Registration | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. VRA Partners | Not published; 650+ deals, $60B+ aggregate value | Business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, technology | Not published | Not disclosed | Large, publicized track record |
| 2. Bravaldo Capital Advisors | $10M to $300M revenue, published | Industrials, business services, technology, healthcare | Not published | Not disclosed | Southeastern founder or family owned businesses |
| 3. CCG Advisors | $10M to $300M revenue, published | Green industry named specialty; broad middle market otherwise | Not published | Not disclosed | Landscaping and commercial services recapitalizations |
| 4. Configure Partners | Not published | Automotive, business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, industrial, power, restaurants, tech/media/telecom | Not published | Not disclosed | Multi sector sellers wanting capital raise access |
| 5. Brookwood Associates | Not published | Business services, consumer, industrials, healthcare | Not published | Not disclosed | Longstanding Atlanta boutique |
| 6. Blackland Advisors | $10M to $100M revenue, published | Transportation and logistics, manufacturing and industrials, construction, professional services | Not published | Not disclosed | Logistics and construction, Southeast |
| 7. Walden Mergers & Acquisitions | Not published; 200+ deals since 2006 | Manufacturing, business services, technology, healthcare and life sciences, water infrastructure | Not published | Not disclosed | Named practice lead by sector |
| 8. Piedmont M&A Advisors | Not published | Broad, unlabeled; examples span vehicle leasing to healthcare services | Not published | Not disclosed | Small, single point of contact |
| 9. Ryco Advisors | $10M to $100M valuation, published | Industrial, manufacturing, service businesses; explicitly not tech or healthcare | Not published | Not disclosed | Founder and family owned industrial deals |
| 10. Apex Exit Advisors | $5M to $50M EV, minimum $1M EBITDA, published | Manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, service | Not published | Not disclosed | Smaller LMM, hands on process |
| 11. Edge Healthcare Partners | Published deals $75M to $345M | Healthcare exclusively | Not published | Not disclosed | Healthcare above roughly $75M |
| 12. Truist Securities | Not published; credited on a $372M 2026 acquirer side deal | Full service corporate and investment bank | Not published | Bank holding company subsidiary; broker-dealer | Larger, regulated deals |
| 13. Sunbelt Business Brokers Atlanta | $100K to $75M, published | Manufacturing, distribution, technology, healthcare, hospitality, retail, construction, franchise, home services | Not published | Not disclosed | Main Street and LMM listings |
| 14. Murphy Business & Financial | Not published | Broad Main Street; named closes span IT to entertainment | Not published | Not disclosed | Owner operated Main Street |
Which Atlanta advisor fits my deal?
The Metro Atlanta Chamber names seven core industries: aerospace, cleantech, creative industries, fintech, life sciences and healthcare, supply chain and advanced manufacturing, and technology, alongside 29 Fortune 500 or 1000 headquarters based in the metro. The Atlanta Fed's July 2026 Beige Book separately notes data center related manufacturing demand as a bright spot against modest regional growth. Route against that real industry mix, not a generic size chart.
| Industry or situation | Specialist | The tell |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing and industrials | Walden Mergers & Acquisitions, Brookwood Associates, Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Ryco Advisors | Walden names an individual industrial automation practice lead by title. Ask the others to name a closed industrial deal, not just the sector on a list. |
| Transportation, logistics and distribution | Blackland Advisors | It is the only firm on this list that names transportation and logistics as a standalone, first listed sector rather than folding it into "industrial." |
| Construction and building products | Blackland Advisors | Named alongside logistics and manufacturing as one of four core sectors, not an afterthought. |
| Healthcare services and physician groups | Edge Healthcare Partners, Configure Partners, Walden Mergers & Acquisitions | Edge Healthcare Partners publishes healthcare as its only sector and names specific closed deals with disclosed values. Walden names a specific Healthcare and Life Sciences practice lead. |
| Green industry, landscaping and lawn care | CCG Advisors | Names five recent recapitalizations in this exact vertical, three of them from 2025 or 2026, which is the most sector specific evidence on this entire list. |
| Business and professional services | VRA Partners, Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Blackland Advisors | All three publish business services as a named, first tier sector rather than a catch all category. |
| Fintech and payments infrastructure, larger scale | Truist Securities | Directly credited in our own 2026 deal data as buy side advisor on Repay Holdings' $372M acquisition of Kubra Data Transfer. |
| Technology and SaaS with services features | VRA Partners, Configure Partners | Both name technology as a covered sector; neither publishes a technology only track record, so ask for named software closings specifically. |
| Consumer and retail | VRA Partners, Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Brookwood Associates | All three name consumer as a covered sector alongside industrials and services. |
| Founder owned, sub $50M enterprise value | Ryco Advisors, Apex Exit Advisors | Both publish an explicit deal size band under $100M and name individual founders who run the process personally. |
| Main Street, under roughly $3M revenue | Sunbelt Business Brokers Atlanta, Murphy Business & Financial | Both publish a broker network model and a published range starting near $100,000, well below where an advisory firm engages. |
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Get Personalized Recommendations →Tier 1: Atlanta's core lower middle market, roughly $25M to $300M revenue
Four firms with the widest published revenue bands and the largest aggregate track records here. Start here for meaningful revenue and a competitive, advisor led process.
1VRA Partners
| Headquarters | 3630 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1000, Atlanta, GA 30326 |
| Founded | Not published. The firm states "20+ years of combined experience" without a specific founding date. |
| Team | Not published on the firm's homepage. |
| Deal size | Not published as a stated band. |
| Sectors | Business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, technology |
| Track record | Published: 650+ completed transactions and $60B+ in aggregate transaction value. Client logos shown include Bellefield Systems, Cobra Legal Solutions, and Med-Metrix, presented with testimonials rather than dated transaction summaries. |
VRA Partners is the largest published track record on this list by a wide margin, and that scale is the whole pitch. A firm that has run 650 or more transactions across five different sectors has almost certainly seen a business that looks like yours before, whatever your industry. What the homepage does not give you is a way to check any single one of those transactions, since no deal is individually named, dated, or sized on the firm's site. The five sector spread also cuts two ways: VRA is a reasonable first call almost regardless of industry, but you should ask specifically who will run your deal and what their sector background is, since a five sector generalist firm staffs differently by mandate.
Best for: Atlanta founders who want a firm with a large, publicized aggregate track record and are comfortable verifying specifics directly in the first call rather than off the website.
Considerations: no founding year, named team, or dated transactions are published, so the 650 plus figure has to be taken on the firm's word. Ask for three recent, named references in your sector before engaging.
2Bravaldo Capital Advisors
| Headquarters | Overlook II, 2839 Paces Ferry Road SE, Suite 450, Atlanta, GA 30339 |
| Founded | Not published |
| Team | Not individually named on the firm's site. The firm states "over 100 years of collective M&A and corporate finance experience" across its bankers. |
| Deal size | Lower middle market companies with revenues between $10 million and $300 million, published |
| Sectors | Industrials, business services, technology, and healthcare, with published "deep vertical expertise" |
| Track record | Published: a network of over 10,000 M&A and corporate finance relationships, and membership in a global advisory network spanning 33 geographies. No individually named, dated transactions on the firm's site. |
Bravaldo is one of two firms on this list, alongside CCG Advisors, that publishes an explicit $10 million to $300 million revenue band, which is a useful signal for a founder trying to figure out whether a firm is even in the right weight class before making a call. That range covers most of the founder owned businesses that would search for an Atlanta M&A advisor in the first place.
The firm's global network membership across 33 geographies is worth asking about directly if your likely buyer is international or if you expect strategic interest from outside the Southeast, since a network affiliation can widen the buyer list meaningfully on the right deal.
Best for: Southeastern founder or family owned businesses in the $10 million to $300 million revenue range across industrials, business services, technology, or healthcare.
Considerations: no individual bankers are named with titles, and no specific transaction is named, dated, or sized. The 10,000 plus relationship figure and the 33 geography network are checkable in spirit but not in specific detail.
3CCG Advisors
| Headquarters | One Buckhead Plaza, Suite 1250, 3060 Peachtree Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30305 |
| Founded | 1997, published on the firm's homepage as "28+ years" |
| Team | Brian Corbett, Founder and Managing Partner. Jonathan Thomson and Bryan Donlin, Managing Directors. Gamble Cleveland, Senior Vice President. Steve Spina, Senior Vice President of Business Development, based in Denver. Ryan Andersen, Senior Associate. Jack Kratzenberg, Associate. |
| Deal size | Clients typically generate $10 million to $300 million in revenue, published |
| Sectors | A named green industry practice covering commercial landscape, residential lawn care, and commercial roofing services, alongside broader middle market sell side, recapitalization, and ESOP work |
| Track record | Published: 28+ years operating, $5B+ total transaction volume, 250+ successful transactions, and 125+ transactions specifically in the green industry. |
CCG Advisors is the sharpest sector story on this list. Rather than claiming broad middle market coverage and leaving it there, the firm names a recurring vertical, green industry services, and backs it with five 2024 through 2026 transactions: Nature's Way Landscaping's sale to Granite Hills Group, HighGrove Partners' sale to Agellus Capital, Perm-O-Green's sale to Legacy Lawns, Nature's Turf's sale to ExperiGreen, and T.L. Gowin & Company's sale to Eskola Roofing. That pattern, private equity rolling up landscaping and commercial services platforms, is one of the more active recapitalization stories in the Southeast, and CCG's named deal flow suggests the firm is inside it. Founders outside the green industry should still ask how much of the current pipeline sits in that vertical versus elsewhere.
Best for: landscaping, lawn care, commercial roofing, and adjacent green industry services companies considering a sale or recapitalization into a sponsor backed platform.
Considerations: the firm's broader claimed coverage, "all lines of industry" per third party summaries of its positioning, is not backed by named transactions outside the green industry on the firm's site. If you are outside that vertical, ask for named, dated closings in your specific sector before assuming the same depth applies.
4Configure Partners
| Headquarters | 3344 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1500, Atlanta, GA 30326, with a published New York office at 300 Park Avenue, Suite 1601 |
| Founded | Not published on the firm's site |
| Team | Named on the firm's team page without individual titles specified on the firm's site: Doug Clarida, James Hadfield, Joseph Weissglass, David Fleming, Pia DeDeyn, Mark Birkett, Daniela Matulli, Jay Jacquin, Mike Garvin, and Matthew Guill. |
| Deal size | Not published as a stated band |
| Sectors | Nine published sectors: automotive, business services, consumer and retail, financial services and real estate, healthcare, industrial and distribution, power and energy, restaurants, and technology, media and telecom |
| Track record | The firm lists a series of anonymized, code named recent projects, including Project Ultra, Project Ember, Project Knossos, Project Air, Project Hire, Project Maize, Project Flame, and Project Airborne, each marked "Undisclosed" for value and date on the firm's site. |
Configure Partners publishes the widest sector list on this entire page, nine named industries, and pairs it with a second office in New York, which suggests a firm built to raise capital and run processes beyond a purely Atlanta local buyer pool. The team page names ten professionals, more than any other firm on this list, though it does not attach individual titles to each name. The code named project list is common practice among firms working under strict confidentiality, and it shows the firm is active across a real spread of live mandates. It does not let you verify a single one, which is a meaningfully different thing than a named, dated closing.
Best for: multi sector sellers, particularly in healthcare, automotive, or industrial and distribution, who also want a firm with capital markets and financing capability alongside straight M&A advisory.
Considerations: no founding year, no individual titles, and no named or dated transactions are published on the firm's site. The anonymized project list is evidence of current activity, not a verifiable track record. Ask directly which of the ten named team members would run your specific deal.
Tier 2: $10M to $100M generalist advisory
Four Atlanta boutiques that publish an explicit $10M to $100M band, or serve that range in practice based on their named sectors and deal sizes.
5Brookwood Associates
| Headquarters | 3575 Piedmont Road, 15 Piedmont Center, Suite 820, Atlanta, GA 30305 |
| Founded | Not published on the firm's site |
| Team | Not published on the firm's site |
| Deal size | Not published as a stated band |
| Sectors | Business services, consumer, industrials, healthcare |
| Track record | The homepage shows a "Recent Client Experiences" section with logos including Wild Eggs Holdings, CAIRE, DataProse, Barberitos, and Yamaha Motor Corporation, without deal counts, dates, or values attached. |
Brookwood Associates is one of the longer standing names among Atlanta's boutique investment banks based on the client logos and sector breadth shown on its site, spanning business services, consumer, industrials, and healthcare. The Yamaha Motor Corporation and Barberitos logos suggest the firm has worked both sides of transactions involving recognizable brand names, though the firm's site attaches no dates, deal roles, or values to any of them, no stated deal size band, and no named bankers, a real gap relative to firms like Ryco Advisors or CCG Advisors that name specific dated closings.
Best for: middle market business owners in business services, consumer, industrials, or healthcare who want a longstanding Atlanta boutique and are prepared to ask directly for specifics not published on the site.
Considerations: no founding year, no named team members, no stated deal size band, and no dated or sized transactions are published on the firm's site. The client logo wall is suggestive of real client relationships but is not, by itself, a verifiable track record.
6Blackland Advisors
| Headquarters | 3455 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30326 |
| Founded | Not published on the firm's site |
| Team | Chapman Syme is referenced under the firm's Leadership section link. No title or additional detail is provided on the firm's site. |
| Deal size | Businesses with $10 million to $100 million in annual revenue, published |
| Sectors | Transportation and logistics, manufacturing and industrials, construction and building products, professional and business services |
| Track record | Not quantified on the firm's site. No specific transaction count, aggregate value, or named closing is provided. |
Blackland Advisors is the only firm on this list that names transportation and logistics as a standalone, first listed sector rather than folding it into a general "industrial" label, which matters given Atlanta's status as a national logistics hub anchored by Hartsfield Jackson and a dense interstate network. The firm pairs that with construction and building products as a second named specialty. The published $10 million to $100 million revenue band is explicit and useful for a quick self screen, though the site otherwise provides limited detail: one named individual with no title, and no quantified track record on the firm's site.
Best for: transportation, logistics, manufacturing, or construction sellers in the Atlanta metro with $10 million to $100 million in annual revenue.
Considerations: no founding year, no fully named and titled team, and no quantified track record, deal count, or named transaction are published on the firm's site. Ask directly for two closed transactions in logistics or construction specifically before engaging.
7Walden Mergers & Acquisitions
| Headquarters | 9040 Roswell Road, Suite 410, Sandy Springs, Atlanta metro, GA 30350 |
| Founded | Not published as a specific year. The firm describes itself as veteran owned and "built on 40 years of transaction experience," with published deal activity dating to 2006. |
| Team | John S. Phillips, President and CEO, Industrials and Business Services Practice Lead. A.J. Alexander, Director, Industrial Automation Practice Lead. Samantha Jones, Director, Buy Side Practice Lead. Bill DiMaio, Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Lead. |
| Deal size | Not published as an explicit band; the firm describes its focus as "the Middle Market." |
| Sectors | Manufacturing, business services, technology, healthcare and life sciences, water infrastructure |
| Track record | Published: 200+ transactions closed and $200M+ in total transaction value since 2006. Named recent transactions, without dates attached on the firm's site: Specialty Precision Fabricator's sale to Little River Partners, a specialized precision manufacturer's sale to KIHM Metal Technologies, Flag Distribution & Manufacturing's sale to Search Investment Group, and a guard and patrol security services company's sale to Pinnacle Security & Investigation. |
Walden is the only firm here that names an individual practice lead for each of four sectors, industrials, industrial automation, healthcare and life sciences, and a dedicated buy side practice, a useful signal since a founder in one of those areas can ask for the named lead directly. Its published 200 plus transactions and $200 million plus in total value since 2006 implies a modest average deal size, consistent with a firm working the lower half of the middle market. The four named recent transactions add real texture, though none carries a closing date, so recency needs a direct ask.
Best for: manufacturing, industrial automation, healthcare and life sciences, or water infrastructure sellers who want a named practice lead in their specific sector, and buyers looking to source acquisitions through Walden's dedicated buy side practice.
Considerations: no explicit deal size band is published, and the four named recent transactions carry no dates, so ask directly how recent each one is. The $200M aggregate value across 200-plus deals implies an average transaction size toward the smaller end of the middle market.
8Piedmont M&A Advisors
| Headquarters | 3495 Piedmont Road NE, Building 10, Suite 115, Atlanta, GA 30305 |
| Founded | Not published on the firm's site |
| Team | Mike Bloom is referenced as lead advisor in client testimonials. No formal title or additional team roster is published on the firm's site. |
| Deal size | Not published; the firm describes itself as focused on "middle market" transactions. |
| Sectors | Not published as a labeled list. Case study examples span vehicle leasing, commercial printing, manufacturing of air sampling devices, petroleum distribution, franchising and restaurants, retail luxury eyewear, healthcare services, and oil field equipment supply. |
| Track record | Not quantified on the firm's site. No deal count, aggregate value, or dated closing is provided. |
Piedmont M&A Advisors is the thinnest published record on this list, and we are including it anyway because its client examples span a wide range of industries and because a small, senior led shop with one named advisor is a real, common, and often perfectly good option for an owner who wants a single point of contact. The tradeoff is that none of the firm's case studies carries a date, a deal value, or a stated outcome beyond the name of the industry, which makes this the clearest example on this page of the "how do I verify a thin website" problem covered later in this guide.
Best for: owner operators who want a small, senior led firm and are comfortable doing more of their own reference checking before engaging.
Considerations: no founding year, no formally titled team beyond one named advisor referenced in testimonials, no stated deal size band, and no dated or valued transactions are published on the firm's site. Ask for three references you can call directly before signing anything.
Tier 3: founder led, sub $50M specialists, and the healthcare specialist
Three firms that publish an explicit sub $100M band with a named founder running the process personally, or specialize deeply enough in one sector to warrant a category of its own.
9Ryco Advisors
| Headquarters | 312 Crosstown Road, Suite 325, Peachtree City, GA 30269, in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area |
| Founded | Not published as a specific year on the firm's site |
| Team | Robert Margeton, Co-Founder and M&A Advisor. Lindsay Margeton, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor. |
| Deal size | Founder owned businesses generating $2M to $10M of EBITDA, with typical valuations between $10 million and $100 million, published |
| Sectors | Industrial, manufacturing, and service based businesses; the firm publishes that it does not work in technology or healthcare |
| Track record | Published: over 90% close rate over the last seven years from executed letter of intent to closing table, and average time to close under 60 days from executed letter of intent. Ranked sixth by Axial in 2022 among more than 1,400 M&A advisors for close rates. Named 2025 M&A Advisor of the Year by M&A Source. Four dated named closings: Air Automation Engineering's sale to Motion & Control Enterprises, announced August 2024; Chamblee Fence Company's sale to Brighton Partners, announced December 2024; John Davis Heating & Air's sale, announced August 2025; and Accurate Fence's sale to Fenceworks, announced January 2026. |
Ryco Advisors publishes the most specific, verifiable close rate data on this list, a 90 percent plus close rate from signed letter of intent to closing table over seven years, with an average under 60 days to close. Together those numbers describe a firm that qualifies a deal hard before taking a letter of intent. The firm is also explicit about what it turns away, technology and healthcare, which makes what it says it does well, industrial, manufacturing and service businesses at $2 million to $10 million of EBITDA, more credible. The four named, dated transactions, each with its own announcement page, give a founder an actual paper trail to check.
Best for: founder and family owned industrial, manufacturing, or service businesses generating $2 million to $10 million of EBITDA who want a small firm with individually named, published closings.
Considerations: the firm explicitly does not work with technology or healthcare businesses, so it is the wrong call for those sectors regardless of size. As a two person founder led shop, capacity is a real question on a large or complex mandate; ask directly how many active engagements the firm is running concurrently.
10Apex Exit Advisors
| Headquarters | 11175 Cicero Drive, Suite 100, Alpharetta, GA 30022, in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area |
| Founded | Not published as a firm founding year on the firm's site |
| Team | Stephen E. Capizzi, Founder and Managing Principal, published credentials CM&AA, CEPA, CVGA, CFP. Phillip Williams, Senior Vice President, CEPA. Mike Gentry, Director of Partnerships. Lea Capizzi, Vice President of Business Development. |
| Deal size | Enterprise values between $5 million and $50 million, requiring a minimum $1 million of EBITDA, published |
| Sectors | Not published as a formal list on the firm's site; the firm's broader positioning describes manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, and service businesses |
| Track record | Founder Stephen E. Capizzi has "guided more than a hundred business owners through successful sales" over a published 30 year career. No aggregate firm level transaction count, value, or individually named closing is provided on the firm's site. |
Apex Exit Advisors publishes the most explicit deal size floor and ceiling on this list, $5 million to $50 million of enterprise value with a required minimum $1 million of EBITDA, a useful self screen for an owner unsure whether they fit a formal advisory process or a business broker. Founder Stephen Capizzi's published credentials, Certified Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor, Certified Exit Planning Advisor, Certified Value Growth Advisor, and Certified Financial Planner, are dense for a firm this size, and the "more than a hundred business owners" figure attaches to a named individual's 30 year career rather than an unattributed firm claim.
Best for: lower middle market owners with $5 million to $50 million of enterprise value and at least $1 million of EBITDA who want a small firm with individually credentialed advisors.
Considerations: the 100 plus business owner figure is attributed to the founder's individual career rather than to a specific, checkable list of firm transactions, and no dated or named closing is published on the firm's site. As with Ryco, capacity on a large mandate is worth asking about directly given the firm's size.
11Edge Healthcare Partners
| Headquarters | 3350 Riverwood Parkway, Suite 2150, Atlanta, GA 30339 |
| Founded | Not published on the firm's site |
| Team | Not individually named on the firm's site. The firm states its professionals hold "over 90 years of collective investment banking experience." |
| Deal size | Not published as an explicit band; disclosed transaction values on the firm's site range from $75.0 million to $345.0 million, with several additional transactions marked "Not Disclosed." |
| Sectors | Healthcare exclusively, spanning M&A advisory, financing, business development, and strategic advisory across the healthcare spectrum |
| Track record | Published: more than 100 completed transactions across the healthcare spectrum. Named closings include Aveanna Healthcare's acquisition of Family First Homecare for $175.5 million, Aveanna Healthcare's acquisition of Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care for $75.0 million, SCP Health's acquisition of certain assets of American Physician Partners, and AccordCare's acquisition of Companions & Homemakers. |
Edge Healthcare Partners is the only firm here that publishes healthcare as its entire identity rather than one sector among several, and it backs that focus with named, valued transactions, a genuine rarity on this page. The $175.5 million Family First Homecare deal and the $75.0 million Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care deal, both Aveanna Healthcare acquisitions, are specific enough to independently verify through Aveanna's own disclosures. The published range, $75 million to $345 million, sits well above where most other firms here operate, making Edge the right call for a larger healthcare platform and likely too big a shop for a single location practice.
Best for: healthcare services companies, particularly home health, skilled care, and physician staffing platforms, generating enough scale to be relevant at $75 million and above in transaction value.
Considerations: no founding year and no individually named bankers are published on the firm's site, so specific team credentials require a direct ask. The published deal range skews well above the lower middle market; a founder below roughly $20 million in revenue should also get a quote from Configure Partners or Walden Mergers & Acquisitions, both of which name healthcare as one sector among several rather than an exclusive focus.
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The ProCloser Tech M&A Deal Index tracks 1,740 technology acquisitions announced in 2026 through September 14, each with a source link. The dataset does not carry a city or state field for targets or acquirers, so we cannot filter it directly by geography. What we did instead, and what we want to be exact about, is match company names in the dataset against publicly known Atlanta headquartered companies. That method surfaced four deals. It is a small, name matched sample, not a systematic count of every Atlanta area transaction in 2026, and any Atlanta deal involving a company we did not think to search for would not appear here.
by name match, out of 1,740 tracked 2026 tech acquisitions
Brink's acquisition of NCR Atleos, announced February 26, 2026
FT Partners (sell side) and Truist Securities (buy side) on the Repay-Kubra deal
Case 1: Brink's acquires NCR Atleos, announced February 26, 2026. NCR Atleos, an Atlanta headquartered ATM management and cash logistics provider, agreed to be acquired by Brink's for approximately $6.6 billion in cash and stock plus roughly $2.6 billion in assumed debt, per the companies' own announcement. What it proves: Atlanta holds real scale fintech infrastructure targets, not just headquarters. No advisor was named in the announcement.
Case 2: Global Payments completes its acquisition of Worldpay, announced January 12, 2026. Atlanta headquartered Global Payments completed its acquisition of Worldpay from FIS and GTCR for undisclosed terms, per the company's own SEC filing. What it proves: Atlanta's payments sector, one of the Metro Atlanta Chamber's named core industries, is active on the acquirer side at the largest possible scale.
Case 3: Repay Holdings acquires Kubra Data Transfer, announced March 30, 2026. Atlanta headquartered, publicly traded Repay Holdings agreed to acquire Kubra Data Transfer, a Canadian bill payment provider, for approximately $372 million, per Repay's own SEC filing. FT Partners advised Kubra on the sell side; Truist Securities, itself Atlanta headquartered, advised Repay on the buy side. What it proves: Truist Securities' Atlanta practice is actively working live fintech mandates in 2026, the strongest evidence in our data for including a step up tier bank at all.
Case 4: Cox Automotive acquires Fullpath, announced April 23, 2026. Cox Automotive, part of Atlanta headquartered Cox Enterprises, agreed to acquire 100% of Fullpath, an AI powered customer data platform for automotive dealers, for undisclosed terms, per the companies' own press release. What it proves: Atlanta's largest private acquirers are actively buying martech and AI native software in 2026.
Only Truist Securities among the four deals named a firm profiled in this guide as an advisor. That is expected: only 149 of the 1,740 tracked 2026 tech deals, about 9%, named any sell side advisor at all, and SEC disclosed deals skew toward bulge bracket banks rather than regional boutiques, which mostly work on private transactions that never generate a public filing.
The honest tier below this band
Under roughly $3 million in revenue, or where your likely buyer is an individual using SBA financing rather than a strategic or sponsor, a business brokerage is likely a better fit than an advisory firm on both cost and process.
13Sunbelt Business Brokers Atlanta
| Headquarters | 4360 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Suite 111, Atlanta, GA 30341 |
| Founded | The office has served Atlanta area owners "since 1998," published on the firm's own site |
| Team | Named brokers on the firm's site: Mark, Doreen Morgan, Brandon, and Laura Chapman. Full last names and titles were not published for all four on the firm's site. |
| Deal size | Approximately $100,000 to $75 million, published |
| Sectors | Manufacturing and distribution, technology, healthcare and medical practices, hospitality, retail, construction, franchise, personal services, auto repair, utility construction, and home services including HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical, landscaping, pest control, and pool services |
| Track record | Published: 1,250+ businesses sold, a 90% close rate, and an average of approximately seven months to closing. |
Sunbelt Atlanta's published $100,000 to $75 million range overlaps the lower end of several advisory firms on this list, worth knowing if you are deciding between a broker and an advisor around $3 million to $10 million. Its 1,250 plus businesses sold since 1998 is the largest single transaction count of any firm on this page, advisory or brokerage.
Best for: Main Street and small lower middle market businesses, particularly owner operated home services, retail, and franchise businesses, where a broad buyer network matters more than a bespoke competitive process.
Considerations: a brokerage model generally runs a listing and buyer matching process rather than a competitive, advisor led auction, which tends to suit businesses with a broad, price sensitive buyer pool better than it suits a business with a narrow set of strategic acquirers who would pay a premium for control.
14Murphy Business & Financial (Atlanta metro)
| Headquarters | Murphy Business is a national brokerage network; the evidence we verified is a single locally based broker at 599 Parliament Street, Marietta, GA 30066, within the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area, not a separately staffed branch office |
| Founded | Not published as a local date on the firm's site |
| Team | Greg Younts, the named broker serving East Cobb County and metro Atlanta on the firm's site |
| Deal size | Not published as an explicit band; positioned as "Lower Middle Market / Mergers & Acquisitions" alongside Main Street brokerage on the firm's site |
| Sectors | Named closings on the firm's site span information technology, lawn care, aircraft maintenance, consignment retail, advertising, furniture retail, and entertainment |
| Track record | Eight completed transaction summaries shown on the broker's page, without dates or values attached |
Greg Younts is a locally based Murphy Business broker giving the network a genuine, named presence in metro Atlanta, and his eight showcased transactions span industries from IT to aircraft maintenance to entertainment, suggesting a generalist Main Street practice rather than a single niche.
Best for: owner operated Main Street businesses across a broad range of industries in the East Cobb and broader metro Atlanta area.
Considerations: this is one named local broker within a national franchise network, not a separately staffed Atlanta office. No dates or values are attached to the eight showcased transactions, and no explicit deal size band is published, so ask directly about typical deal size and current active listings.
The honest tier above this band
Above roughly $250 million in enterprise value, or in a deal involving a large regulated financial institution, the lower middle market boutiques on this page are very likely the wrong size match, however good their process is at their own scale.
12Truist Securities
| Headquarters | Truist Plaza, 303 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30308, per Truist's own August 2020 formation announcement |
| Founded | Formed August 3, 2020, through the combination of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets following the 2019 SunTrust-BB&T merger, published on Truist's own investor relations site |
| Team | Not individually named for a specific fintech or M&A coverage team on the firm's site |
| Deal size | Not published as an explicit band |
| Sectors | Full service corporate and investment bank, published sales, trading, research, and strategic advisory and M&A capabilities across fixed income and equity |
| Track record | Published at formation: more than 1,400 teammates across offices nationally. In our own 2026 deal index, Truist Securities is named as buy side advisor to Repay Holdings Corporation on its approximately $372 million acquisition of Kubra Data Transfer LTD, announced March 30, 2026, per Repay's SEC filing. |
Truist Securities is the only firm on this list large enough, and current enough in its own disclosed 2026 activity, to serve as the step up tier here. The Repay Holdings mandate we found in our own deal index, a $372 million acquirer side role for a publicly traded fintech company, is real and independently verifiable through Repay's own SEC filing. That same evidence is also the clearest reason most founders reading this guide should not start here: a mandate of that scale is staffed by teams built for it, and a founder selling a $15 million EBITDA business will not get the same seniority at a bank built around mandates two orders of magnitude larger, whatever the address suggests about local relevance.
Best for: larger, public company adjacent, or highly regulated transactions, particularly in fintech, banking, and financial services, where scale and balance sheet matter as much as sector expertise.
Considerations: no fintech or M&A specific team, no published deal size floor, and no lower middle market track record are available from the firm's site. This is not the right first call for a founder led business under roughly $100M in enterprise value.
Atlanta valuation ladder
Indicative EBITDA and SDE multiple ranges for the industries most relevant to Atlanta's economy, drawn from ProCloser's own published industry table rather than invented for this page. These are indicative ranges, not a valuation of your specific business; run your numbers through the business valuation calculator for a company specific estimate.
| Industry | Indicative 2026 range | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| SaaS & software | 4.0 to 9.0x | EBITDA |
| MSP & IT services | 5.0 to 9.0x | EBITDA |
| Healthcare & medical practices | 4.0 to 7.0x | EBITDA |
| HVAC & home services | 4.0 to 7.0x | EBITDA |
| Manufacturing | 4.0 to 6.0x | EBITDA |
| Logistics & distribution | 4.0 to 6.0x | EBITDA |
| Construction & trades | 3.0 to 5.0x | EBITDA |
| Professional services | 3.0 to 5.0x | SDE/EBITDA |
| Landscaping & green industry | 4.0 to 7.0x | EBITDA, per HVAC & home services range for commercial recurring contracts |
These ranges match the ProCloser EBITDA multiples by industry guide and the business valuation calculator. Our own deal index valuation benchmarks track median disclosed value across the 288 of 1,740 tracked 2026 deals that disclosed one; that skews toward venture backed transactions, so treat it as directional color, not a direct comparable for a lower middle market Atlanta business.
What do these advisors charge in 2026?
None of the 14 firms on this page publishes specific fee percentages on the firm's site, which is standard practice in the lower middle market. The ranges below reflect general published lower middle market fee structures, not a quote from any specific firm on this list.
| Deal size (EV) | Retainer, monthly | Success fee | Approx total at close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $5M | $0 to $5,000 | Around 8% to 12%, often with a minimum fee | $150K to $400K |
| $5M to $25M | $3,000 to $10,000 | Around 5% to 8% | $300K to $1.2M |
| $25M to $100M | $8,000 to $20,000 | Around 3% to 5% | $1.0M to $3.5M |
| $100M to $250M | $15,000 to $35,000 | Around 1.5% to 3% | $2.0M to $6.0M |
| Above $250M | $25,000 to $75,000 | Under 1.5%, often tiered | Negotiated, minimums apply |
Three things Atlanta founders miss most often. Whether a monthly work fee credits back at close is worth more than shaving a point off the success fee. A published minimum bites hardest on small deals, since the same six month process runs at $4M or $40M. And a broker's single commission model, typically around 10% with no retainer, is not directly comparable to an advisor's blended retainer plus success fee, so compare total dollars at close. See the full breakdown in our M&A advisory fees guide.
The frames we use in this guide
Five lenses we apply to every Atlanta mandate. Each has a rule, a number, and an action.
1. The Named Closing Test
Rule: a firm naming a specific, dated, sized transaction has cleared a higher bar than one publishing only aggregate figures or a logo wall. Number: nine of the 14 firms here name at least one transaction with an identifiable counterparty; five do not. Act: if a firm falls in the second group, ask for three checkable references in your first call, not your fifth.
2. The Regional Anchor Test
Rule: a firm's named sector, the one it can show recent deal flow in, tells you more than its full sector list. Number: CCG Advisors names five green industry transactions from 2024 through 2026; most other firms here name zero dated transactions in any single sector. Act: ask which single sector produced most closings in the last 24 months, by name and count.
3. The Size Match Test
Rule: a firm's genuine sweet spot sits well inside its published range, not at either edge. Number: Bravaldo Capital Advisors and CCG Advisors both publish the same $10 million to $300 million band, a 30 fold spread, so a $12 million and a $250 million business are unlikely to get the same staffing seniority at either firm. Act: ask where your revenue and EBITDA fall within the firm's typical closed deal, not its outer range.
4. The Buyer Type Fork
Rule: choosing between an advisory firm and a broker should follow your likely buyer type, not just revenue. Number: Sunbelt Atlanta's $100,000 to $75 million range overlaps several advisory firms here around $3 million to $10 million. Act: if your buyer is a strategic or sponsor rather than an individual, choose an advisor led process even inside that overlap.
5. The Local Address Discount
Rule: a downtown address does not mean a firm is right sized for your deal; mandate scale matters more than proximity. Number: the one Truist Securities mandate in our own 2026 data was a $372 million acquirer side role for a public company. Act: match your deal size to the tier on this page first, and treat a local address as a tiebreaker only.
How to verify an advisor is legit and unconflicted
Most of the firms on this page are boutiques that do not publish FINRA registration or a CRD number, which is common and not automatically a red flag in the lower middle market, but it does mean the verification burden sits more heavily on you.
- Ask which legal entity signs your engagement letter. None of the 14 firms here discloses a specific broker-dealer registration, other than Truist Securities. Ask directly whether your advisor operates under the SEC's M&A broker exemption, Section 15(b)(13), or as a registered broker-dealer, and search that entity on FINRA BrokerCheck.
- Request two references from deals that did not close. Every firm will give you a happy seller. The instructive call is with the founder whose process broke down.
- Ask for three closed transactions in your sector and size, with names. Five firms here, VRA Partners, Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Configure Partners, Brookwood Associates, and Piedmont M&A Advisors, publish sector coverage without a single named, dated transaction. That is not disqualifying, but the ask has to happen directly.
- Check who else the firm represents in your sector. A firm working three deals in your niche has real relationships. It may also have a conflict on the buyer you most want. Get the conflicts list before the pitch.
- Confirm the actual team, not the firm brand. Ask by name who runs your weekly calls, and confirm that person has closed a deal in your sector before.
The traps in a "best Atlanta M&A advisor" list
Including this one. Read these before you act on any ranking, ours included.
- A strong homepage is not a track record. Five firms here publish real sector expertise and no named, dated transaction. A polished site and a checkable deal history are different things.
- Aggregate figures flatter a firm with a few very large deals. "$5B in transaction volume" could mean 250 similarly sized deals or five enormous ones; ask for the median, not just the total.
- A local address is a convenience, not a qualification. Truist Securities is Atlanta headquartered and the wrong size match for most founder led sellers reading this.
- Sector breadth can mean sector shallowness. A firm naming nine industries, like Configure Partners, is not necessarily deep in all nine; ask which one or two produced closings recently.
- "We serve the lower middle market" describes almost every firm here. The real differentiator is the revenue and EBITDA band a firm's actual closed deals cluster around, not its published range.
- Business broker networks vary by individual office. Sunbelt and Murphy Business are both national networks; the specific broker you are assigned matters more than the network's size.
Where ProCloser fits
ProCloser is not an M&A advisor and does not sell companies. We run a deal matching network and a public deal index, and publish research on advisor selection. When an Atlanta founder tells us their industry, size and timing, we introduce them to firms in our network that fit. Positions on this page are editorial and are never sold. Everything factual here is sourced to a firm's own website or to a public filing, both listed at the bottom.
The bottom line
Route on size and sector first, address last. Founder owned businesses generating $10 million to $300 million in revenue across industrials, business services, technology, or healthcare fit VRA Partners, Bravaldo Capital Advisors, or Configure Partners. Landscaping and green industry sellers fit CCG Advisors specifically. Logistics, transportation and construction sellers fit Blackland Advisors. A named sector practice lead matters most, fit Walden Mergers & Acquisitions. Sub $50M enterprise value founders wanting a hands on, individually run process fit Ryco Advisors or Apex Exit Advisors. Healthcare platforms above roughly $75M fit Edge Healthcare Partners. Step up to Truist Securities only above roughly $250M or for a highly regulated financial services deal. Step down to Sunbelt Atlanta or Murphy Business under about $3M in revenue or when your realistic buyer is an individual operator rather than a strategic or sponsor.
Related resources
- Best M&A advisory firms in Chicago. The Midwest counterpart to this guide, built on the same verification standard.
- Best M&A advisory firms in New York. Where to look if your buyer universe is national or your deal is upper middle market.
- Best M&A advisory firms in Florida. Relevant if you are weighing Atlanta against Tampa, Miami, or Orlando for your process.
- Best M&A advisors for healthcare. The national healthcare specific ranking, useful alongside Edge Healthcare Partners' Atlanta profile above.
- Best M&A advisors for manufacturing. National manufacturing specialists, for comparison against Blackland Advisors and Walden.
- Best M&A advisors for construction. National construction and specialty trade specialists.
- Best fintech M&A advisors. Relevant given Atlanta's fintech and payments concentration and the Truist Securities profile above.
- Business broker versus M&A advisor. The decision this guide's step down tier hinges on.
- How long it takes to sell a business. General timelines to plan your process against.
- EBITDA multiples by industry. The source data behind the Atlanta valuation ladder above.
- M&A advisory fees guide. The full breakdown of retainers, success fees, minimums and tail periods by deal size.
- ProCloser Tech M&A Deal Index. All 1,740 tracked 2026 technology acquisitions, updated regularly from public announcements.
- Deal index insights. Most active acquirers, advisor credits, and monthly volume trends across the full 2026 index.
- Valuation benchmarks. Median disclosed deal value by sector across the priced 2026 deals in our index.
- Most active acquirers. Who is buying repeatedly in 2026, including Atlanta headquartered Cox Automotive and Global Payments.
- Get matched to an advisor. Tell us your industry, size, and timing and we will introduce you to firms in our network that fit.
Frequently asked questions
I run a $14M revenue industrial distributor in Marietta and two firms in this guide quoted me completely different processes. How do I pick?
Pick on named recent closes in your sub sector, not on the pitch. A $14M distributor sits squarely in the lower middle market band where Brookwood Associates, Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Blackland Advisors, and Walden Mergers and Acquisitions all say they play, and all four publish transportation, logistics, or industrials as a named sector. The differentiator is not the process description, since every firm describes roughly the same six month timeline. Ask each firm for two closed transactions in distribution or logistics specifically, with the buyer type named, and ask who on the team will run your weekly calls. Walden names its industrial automation and buy side practice leads individually on its site, which makes that check easy to run. A firm that cannot name a distribution closing in the last two years is not wrong for you, but it is unproven for you, and on a $14M deal that distinction is worth the extra week of diligence before you sign an engagement letter.
My landscaping company does $6M in commercial contract revenue. Everyone tells me to call a business broker. Should I?
Not first. At $6M of revenue with recurring commercial contracts, you are a real sell side mandate, not a Main Street listing, and CCG Advisors specifically publishes a green industry practice with named 2025 and 2026 closes including Nature's Way Landscaping, HighGrove Partners, and Nature's Turf. A business broker like Sunbelt Atlanta or Murphy Business can absolutely sell a landscaping business, and both publish real Atlanta area track records, but their buyer pool skews toward individual operators using SBA financing rather than the private equity roll up sponsors that are actively building landscaping and lawn care platforms in the Southeast right now. A recurring commercial contract book is exactly what those sponsors pay a premium for. Talk to CCG Advisors first, and only step down to a broker if your revenue is below roughly $2M or your contracts are mostly residential and one time.
A firm on your list has no named team members and no dated closings on its own website. Is that disqualifying?
It is a real gap, not an automatic disqualifier, and Piedmont M&A Advisors is the clearest example on this page. The firm's site names one advisor in testimonials, lists transaction examples across a wide range of industries, and does not publish dates, values, or a stated deal size band for any of them. That pattern is common among small, senior led shops whose clients are private and whose deals close quietly, and it is equally common among firms with a thin track record. You cannot tell which from the outside. Ask directly for three references from the last 24 months, request the year and approximate size of each, and ask to speak with two of the sellers. A firm with a real record will produce that under an NDA within days. Compare that against a firm like VRA Partners, which publishes 650 plus completed transactions and 60 billion dollars in aggregate value on its own homepage, where the verification burden on you is close to zero.
We are a $22M revenue outpatient healthcare group in the Atlanta suburbs. Do we need a healthcare specific advisor?
Yes, and the reason is regulatory rather than stylistic. Healthcare deals carry Stark Law, anti kickback, and state certificate of need questions that a generalist advisor will not catch until a buyer's counsel raises them in diligence, at which point your timeline slips by months. Edge Healthcare Partners is an Atlanta headquartered firm that publishes healthcare investment banking as its entire identity, with more than 100 completed healthcare transactions and named closes including Aveanna Healthcare's acquisitions of Family First Homecare and Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care. Its published deal sizes run considerably larger than a $22M practice, so also get a quote from Configure Partners, which is Atlanta headquartered, names healthcare as one of nine covered sectors, and works across a wider range of deal sizes. Walden Mergers and Acquisitions also names a dedicated Healthcare and Life Sciences practice lead. Ask all three how many outpatient or physician group transactions they closed in the last 24 months specifically, not healthcare broadly.
Truist Securities is headquartered two blocks from my office. Should I just hire the hometown bank?
Proximity is not the right filter, size is. Truist Securities is Atlanta headquartered, formed in August 2020 from the combination of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets, and it shows up in our own 2026 deal data as the credited advisor to Repay Holdings on its 372 million dollar acquisition of Kubra Data Transfer. That is real, current evidence of an active Atlanta based investment banking practice. It is also evidence of the scale that practice operates at: a 372 million dollar acquirer side mandate for a publicly traded company. If your business is generating single digit millions in EBITDA, a bank built for that mandate size will not staff your deal with the same seniority, however close the office is. Use the tiers on this page to match your size first, and treat the local address as a tiebreaker, not the deciding factor.
How many of these Atlanta firms have closed a deal I can verify happened, versus just publishing a services page?
Nine of the 14 firms in this guide publish at least one specific named transaction with an identifiable counterparty on their own website, which is the bar we used before including a Considerations note about a thin published record. Ryco Advisors names four transactions with a link to a dedicated announcement page for each, including specific months. CCG Advisors names five, three of them from 2025 or 2026. Walden Mergers and Acquisitions names four without dates attached. Edge Healthcare Partners names transaction values ranging from 75 million to 345 million dollars. VRA Partners does not name individual transactions but publishes an aggregate figure, 650 plus completed deals and 60 billion dollars in value, that is checkable in spirit even without line item detail. Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Blackland Advisors, Brookwood Associates, Configure Partners, and Piedmont M&A Advisors publish sector coverage and, in Configure's case, anonymized recent project names, but no dated, named closing on the firm's site. We say so explicitly in each firm's Considerations rather than let a strong looking homepage stand in for a verifiable record.
I got an unsolicited offer for my $9M Atlanta HVAC distribution business from a strategic buyer. Should I just take it?
Run a short, targeted process before you sign anything, because an unsolicited offer is priced to be good enough that you skip exactly that step. Metro Atlanta's supply chain and advanced manufacturing base, one of the seven industries the Metro Atlanta Chamber names as a core regional strength, means there is very likely more than one strategic or private equity buyer who would want a profitable HVAC distribution platform in this market, not just the one who called you. At $9M of revenue you are inside the band where Brookwood Associates, Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Blackland Advisors, and Walden Mergers and Acquisitions all say they work, and any of them can run a focused six to eight week outreach to a short list of buyers against your existing offer as a floor. That costs you a few weeks and a retainer. Signing without that check costs you the difference between one bidder and several, which on a distribution business with real EBITDA is routinely a full turn of multiple.
What is the actual difference between hiring VRA Partners and hiring Sunbelt Atlanta for the same size business?
Registration, process, and buyer type, not just fee. VRA Partners runs a competitive, advisor led sale process aimed at strategic acquirers and private equity sponsors, publishes coverage across business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology, and reports 650 plus completed transactions. Sunbelt Atlanta operates as a business brokerage, has sold more than 1,250 businesses since 1998 by its own count, handles deals from roughly $100,000 to $75 million by its own published range, and leans on a listing and buyer network model closer to real estate brokerage than to a run auction. For a $9M industrial business with real EBITDA and multiple plausible strategic buyers, an advisor led process from a firm like VRA Partners is very likely to produce a better outcome because it actively creates competitive tension. For a $600,000 owner operated business where the realistic buyer pool is an individual with SBA financing, that same advisor led process is overkill, and a broker's faster, lower cost model fits better. Match the model to your buyer pool, not just your revenue number.
None of these firms mention AI or SaaS specifically. Is Atlanta really a technology M&A market?
Atlanta is a real technology market, but the firms best positioned for a pure SaaS or AI exit are generalists who list technology as one of several covered sectors rather than technology only specialists, which is a genuine gap on this list and worth naming directly. VRA Partners and Configure Partners both name technology among their covered sectors, and Blackland and Bravaldo both work in business services, which increasingly overlaps with vertical software. If your company is a venture backed or bootstrapped SaaS business rather than a founder owned services business with software features, the technology focused national and cross border advisors covered in our broader SaaS and technology M&A advisor rankings are likely a better fit than a locally headquartered generalist, even if you are based in Atlanta. Ask any firm on this page directly how many pure software transactions, as opposed to technology enabled services, they have closed in the last two years, and expect a specific number.
Do I need a different advisor if my buyer is likely to be a private equity roll up rather than a strategic competitor?
Not necessarily a different firm, but a different conversation with the same firm. Ask directly which private equity sponsors the advisor has closed with in the last 24 months, by name, and whether those sponsors were building a platform or bolting on an add on, since the negotiating dynamic and the earnout structure differ meaningfully between the two. Walden Mergers and Acquisitions names a dedicated buy side practice lead, which suggests the firm actively tracks sponsor activity from both directions. CCG Advisors' named 2025 and 2026 closes are recapitalizations into sponsor backed platforms in the green industry specifically, which is directly relevant if your buyer universe looks similar. A firm that can only describe strategic buyer relationships in general terms, without naming a sponsor it has transacted with, is telling you something about the shape of its real buyer list regardless of what its marketing page claims.
Sources
Every firm page below was fetched on September 14, 2026. Firm facts come from the firm's own site unless noted. Deal facts come from the announcing party's press release, SEC filing, or the ProCloser deal index row's source link.
Firm websites
- VRA Partners: vrapartners.com
- Bravaldo Capital Advisors: bravaldocapitaladvisors.com
- CCG Advisors: ccgadv.com, /team, /about
- Configure Partners: configurepartners.com, /contact, /join-our-team
- Brookwood Associates: brookwoodassociates.com
- Blackland Advisors: blacklandadvisors.com/atlanta-m-and-a-advisory
- Walden Mergers & Acquisitions: waldenma.com
- Piedmont M&A Advisors: piedmontmna.com
- Ryco Advisors: rycoadvisors.com, Air Automation Engineering closing, Chamblee Fence closing, John Davis Heating & Air closing, Accurate Fence closing
- Apex Exit Advisors: apexexit.com, /about
- Edge Healthcare Partners: edgehcp.com
- Truist Securities: formation announcement, August 3, 2020
- Sunbelt Business Brokers Atlanta: sunbeltatlanta.com
- Murphy Business & Financial: murphybusiness.com/eastcobbcounty
Firms we checked and excluded
- Founders Advisors: foundersib.com, no office address published on the firm's site.
- Cross Keys Capital: ckcap.com/about-cross-keys, Fort Lauderdale headquartered per the firm's own site.
Local industry and economic data
- Metro Atlanta Chamber: Key Industries, naming aerospace, cleantech, creative industries, fintech, life sciences and healthcare, supply chain and advanced manufacturing, and technology as the region's core industries, and 29 Fortune 500/1000 headquarters plus 1,200+ regional and global headquarters based in the metro.
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Beige Book, July 15, 2026, on data center and manufacturing demand against modest regional growth.
Deal and market data
- ProCloser Tech M&A Deal Index: 1,740 deals tracked in 2026 through September 14, one source link per row.
- Brink's: NCR Atleos acquisition release, February 26, 2026.
- Global Payments: Worldpay acquisition completion filing, January 12, 2026.
- Repay Holdings: Kubra Data Transfer acquisition filing, March 30, 2026, naming FT Partners and Truist Securities.
- Cox Automotive: Fullpath acquisition release, April 23, 2026.
- FINRA BrokerCheck: brokercheck.finra.org. SEC M&A broker exemption, Section 15(b)(13) of the Securities Exchange Act.
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Disclosure: ProCloser.ai operates a deal-matching network. Positions on this page are editorial and are never sold. ProCloser is not an M&A advisor, is not a broker-dealer, and does not represent companies in transactions. No firm paid for placement in this ranking and no firm reviewed its own entry before publication. Verify any advisor on FINRA BrokerCheck before you sign an engagement letter, and confirm which legal entity is signing it. Nothing here is investment, legal or tax advice. Valuation ranges are published market data, not an opinion about your business. Report factual errors to corrections@procloser.ai.