When something changes, whether it's health, burnout, a partner or a retirement that can't wait, you need a straight answer, not a two-year process. We buy established Arizona businesses directly from their owners, quietly, and close in under six months.
When you call, you reach the person who will actually be buying your business. Not an analyst in another state, and not an associate who has to take it back to a committee.
Most owners don't sell because the timing is perfect.
They sell because something changed.
The diagnosis that changed the plan.
Thirty years of 6 a.m. starts is enough.
One wants to leave. The other can't buy them out.
The date is set. The exit isn't.
The kids have built their own careers.
The bank is asking harder questions.
The business is part of a settlement.
Family needs a clean, fair solution.
Life is moving somewhere else.
No listing, no staging, no strangers walking through your shop. You sell the business as it is, quietly, on your timeline.
A relaxed, confidential call. We tell you honestly what we see.
We tour the operation. To your team, we're a client, supplier or advisor.
Financials shared under NDA. Diligence stays in-house.
A signed letter of intent, direct from the buyer, often with some seller financing.
Your lawyer and ours finalise the purchase agreement. If a key supplier or customer needs to hear first, it happens here.
Papers signed and funds paid. Then we tell your people, together.
Who knows you're selling, at each step.
Deals led by Mike Cook, who founded the Lexbury Group. It's the same way we'd approach yours. Names and details kept private, as yours will be.
A custom design and specialty manufacturing shop serving energy, medical, aviation and other sectors. The second-level team was strong, but no one was ready to lead it. Mike hired and trained a new general manager so the partners could retire.
A utility services business whose clients include municipalities, government bodies, gas co-ops and private utilities. The GM and team were already running it, so the handover was quick and clean.
An established industrial and commercial logistics business. The owner and Mike agreed terms in two meetings. The owner kept 30% to keep growing the business, and that second bite turned out to be bigger than the first.
A family restaurant chain and franchisor founded by the family patriarch, with loyal customers, entrepreneurial franchisees and a strong supplier and support system. The third-generation owner sold to focus on other business interests. The team stayed, and a new leader came in after the first year.
Lexbury Liberty is run out of Phoenix. You'll meet your buyer before you commit to anything, over coffee in your own town rather than over a signature.
Being local changes what we can see. We know the trades, the service businesses and the industrial operators around the Valley, and we visit the shop rather than reading about it in a data room. That's why we can give you a straight answer in weeks.
Behind us is the Lexbury Group: more than twenty years of reviewing, buying and running private businesses, with the same method and the same capital. We don't pretend to pay top-of-market prices. What we offer is speed, certainty and a deal that closes.
"Sometimes the best deal is the one that gets done, on your timeline, not the market's." Mike Cook, founder, Lexbury Group
Tap everything that's true. You don't need all six to be worth a conversation.
Each one has its own page, written for owners in that business: what we look for, what tends to drive value, and how a sale usually goes.
Fire protection, suppression, alarm and life-safety service businesses: work that customers have to have done, year after year.
Read the page for owners →Established distributors with loyal customers, long supplier relationships and a team that runs the warehouse without you.
Read the page for owners →Technical, hands-on service businesses that industrial customers rely on and can't easily replace.
Read the page for owners →Not in one of these? We still look at any established Arizona business with $2M+ in revenue. Take the 2-minute check →
The things most owners want to know before they pick up the phone. If yours isn't here, ask us directly.
Not until you're ready. The site visit is arranged so we look like a client, supplier or advisor, and your financials are shared under NDA. Where a key supplier or major customer is essential to the business, we may need to speak with them before closing to make sure the relationship carries over. That happens late in the process, only with your agreement, and usually with you in the room. Everyone else hears when you decide, and we usually announce it together at a company meeting, so your people hear it from you first.
We value the business on its actual earnings, the same way every time, and we'll show you how we got to the number. It won't be top-of-market, because that takes a long process. It will be fair, and it's the number we close on.
Not always. Our offers often include some seller financing, which means part of the price is paid over an agreed period after closing. It helps the deal get done. You'll see exactly how much, and on what terms, in the offer, before you commit to anything.
They stay. We keep teams intact, because the people are a large part of what we're buying. In every one of the four deals led by our founder, shown above, all staff kept their jobs.
That depends on the strength of your team. If together we can identify your heir apparent, the transition is very quick. If not, we may need to hire and groom a new leader, which can take six months to a year, and we'll agree that with you up front.
Usually not. We need to be able to see the picture, not a set of audited statements.
Nothing. There's no fee and no obligation, and you'll have learned what a real buyer thinks the business is worth.
Written for Arizona, with Arizona's figures: worked numbers on fees, how long a sale really takes and the odds it closes at all. We'll mail you a hard copy, no strings attached.
Request a free copy or download the PDFSeven questions, two minutes, completely private. You'll see where you stand and the date you could be closed by. If a quick exit isn't right for you, we'll tell you.
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