Single Transaction
You found the business. We engage on that specific deal and run everything from valuation to closing. Non-exclusive while you search, exclusive only on the deal we work together.
See the full buyer journeyBuyer Representation
The seller has a broker. Who is on your side?
EDGE Buyer Representation puts a licensed advisor, private equity grade analysis, and our proprietary Deal Hub platform to work for one person in the transaction: you. From the first look at a business to the day you get the keys.
Buyer Line: 404.940.5748 | Every conversation is confidential.
What Representation Covers
Everything between "I found it" and "I own it."
Buying a business is a sequence of decisions where the other side has done this before and you have not. Representation closes that gap at every step.
Target analysis and valuation
We normalize the financials, verify the earnings, and model what the business is actually worth before you commit to anything.
Financing strategy
SBA 7(a), seller financing, and blended structures, stress-tested against real lender requirements before the LOI is written.
Structuring deals and terms
Financeable, defensible terms of interest in an LOI that protects you, reviewed and approved by our Managing Director before delivery, with an attorney on staff.
Negotiation
Counters handled with discipline and momentum, so the deal moves toward closing instead of unraveling.
Due diligence management
A managed checklist across financials, taxes, contracts, staff, customers, and suppliers, with findings translated into decisions.
Closing coordination
Lender, attorney, landlord, and seller kept on one timeline, through funding and the handover of the keys.
The EDGE Deal Hub
Every engagement runs on our proprietary deal platform.
The Deal Hub is the analytical engine behind every EDGE representation: the same depth of modeling a private equity firm brings to a nine-figure deal, applied to yours.
Normalized financials
Three years of P&L rebuilt line by line, add-backs itemized, and adjusted SDE established, so you negotiate from verified earnings.
Valuation and market comps
Market-multiple valuation benchmarked against real comparable sales, showing exactly where the asking price stands.
Capital stack and debt service
Your full financing structure modeled with debt service coverage, amortization, and collateral, tested the way a lender will test it.
Forecast and returns
Multi-year forecasts and return scenarios, plus the monthly first-year projection lenders want to see.
Risk assessment
Customer concentration, staff dependence, supplier exposure, and financial reconciliation, surfaced before diligence instead of after.
Buyer readiness
Your search thesis, financial statement, financing checklist, and search team organized so lenders see a prepared buyer, not a hopeful one.
Deal Snapshot, Illustrative
Adjusted SDE, most recent year$412,000
EDGE valuation range$1.2M to $1.4M
Asking price$1,550,000
Structure modeledSBA 7(a) + seller note
Debt service coverage at the LOI price1.58x
ReadNegotiate below ask
Sample figures for illustration only. Every EDGE analysis is built from the actual financials of the business under review.
Senior Eyes on Every Deal
The platform does the math. Leadership makes it judgment.
Managing Director review
Every LOI is reviewed and approved before delivery by our Managing Director, whose background spans $50M+ in commercial SBA lending and $60M+ in private equity transactions, with an attorney on staff.
Legal oversight
Managing Counsel on staff for deal structure, engagement agreements, and regulatory compliance, so surprises get caught on paper, not at closing.
Growth support after close
Our dedicated Growth Advisor works with you after the acquisition, because the goal is not just owning the business. It is growing it.
Where to Start
Every buyer starts in the Buyer's EDGE Acquisition Center. Representation is for the businesses we do not list.
On its own listings EDGE represents the seller, and buyers pay nothing: create a free account in Buyer's EDGE, sign the NDA online, and the confidential information opens when the listing's advisor approves. Buyer representation is what we provide for businesses you find elsewhere, and the two engagements below are how.
The Buyer's EDGE Acquisition Center, free to join
Our listings, the NDA and the confidential information in one place; questions to the listing advisor; terms of interest on the listing; the Acquisition Academy, free to read. What it is.
Two paid tiers: the Analyst Toolkit, $495; Guided Acquisition Search, $4,750
For buyers running their own search. The Toolkit, no advisor: Work this deal on every target of your free board, the full Toolkit, Notable Deals, 12 months, refundable within 7 days. Guided: the Toolkit plus an EDGE advisor in the portal, your board becoming an engagement, 12 months, non-refundable, and the $500 fee waived when you engage EDGE on a business.
Representation, on a business we do not list
Single Transaction: no fee to sign, $500 when EDGE engages on the business (waived for Guided members), $2,500 if the seller accepts your LOI, and a success commission at closing of 4% of the first $1,000,000, 3% to $2,000,000, 2% above, $15,000 minimum. Full Buyer Representation: EDGE runs the search; a $12,000 engagement fee, Guided included, and a commission of 5% of the first $1,000,000, 4% to $2,000,000, 3% to $3,000,000, 2% above, $15,000 minimum.
Two Ways to Engage
Built around where you are, not where we want you to be.
Full Search
A structured, professional search. We build the thesis, source and screen deal flow, and then take the right target through the same closing process.
Compare the two modelsEngagement terms are straightforward, and we walk you through them first.
Every buyer engagement starts with a conversation about your situation, the right model for it, and exactly what the terms look like. No obligation, and nothing signed until it makes sense to you.
Talk to a Buyer Advisor
Put EDGE on your side of the table.
Tell us where you are: a deal in hand, a search underway, or a goal taking shape. An EDGE advisor will follow up, walk through how representation works, and share the engagement terms with you directly.
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