Most business owners only get one chance at an exit. Our off-market process connects you directly with institutional buyers — with no public listing, no disruption to your team, and maximum exit value.
Your enquiry is 100% confidential and protected by NDA.
Not every business owner wants their sale publicly advertised. If you'd rather keep the process private — approached through trusted intermediaries rather than a public marketplace — our off-market deal sourcing path is built for exactly that. We work quietly with pre-qualified buyers who have signed NDAs before they ever see your financials, protecting your staff, customers, and competitive position from day one.
Many of our most successful transactions never appear on any listing platform. Sellers benefit from a confidential, guided process while our curated network of institutional and individual buyers compete for first access. See our full selling process →
A private sale through Unity Acquisitions protects everything you've built — and positions your business to capture the premium institutional buyers pay for exclusive, discreet access.
Your sale never appears on a public marketplace. Every buyer signs an NDA before they see your financials, your staff never learn the business is for sale, and your customers and competitors stay in the dark until you choose to disclose. Learn how we manage off-market deal sourcing.
Our private network includes institutional investors, family offices, and strategic acquirers who actively seek off-market deals. These buyers have already passed financial screening and are motivated to close — fewer deals fall through at the finish line. Meet our buyer network →
Your financials are shared only inside a controlled, NDA-gated data room. Buyers see exactly what they need to make a serious offer — nothing more, and only after they've been cleared. Sensitive documents never circulate beyond vetted parties.
You have a single point of contact who manages the entire private deal process on your behalf. Your advisor orchestrates buyer outreach, coordinates NDA execution, and keeps you updated at every milestone — so you stay in control without managing the process yourself.
Public listings anchor price expectations to what the broad market will bear. Off-market deals are different — institutional buyers price on strategic value, synergies, and scarcity of access. We position your business to capture that premium. See how business valuation drives exit price.
We prepare a polished CIM — a private document shared only with vetted, NDA-signed buyers. It tells the full story of your business without a word appearing in public view, giving serious institutional buyers everything they need to move quickly to an offer.
Going public with your sale exposes you to tyre-kickers, unsettles staff, and puts competitors on notice before a deal is even close. Our confidential business sale process is built to protect everything you've spent years building.
We approach only pre-qualified, NDA-bound institutional buyers on your behalf — buyers who are actively seeking confidential acquisitions and have the capital to close. No public listing. No disruption. Just a private, professionally managed path to the outcome you deserve. Our team works with referral partners — CPAs, attorneys, and lenders — who trust us with their most sensitive client relationships.
We start with a fully confidential conversation about your timeline, priorities, and how much discretion your situation requires. A private market valuation gives you a realistic anchor before any process begins.
We assess what institutional buyers will actually pay off-market — often above the headline comparable range. Our valuation methodology accounts for strategic fit, synergies, and the scarcity premium that private deal access commands.
We approach our curated institutional buyer network quietly, manage NDAs, and guide you through to a closed deal — without a single public posting, marketplace listing, or press announcement.
Every transaction we manage follows a disciplined, confidential sequence — designed to protect your business, attract the right buyers, and keep you in control from first conversation to final close. Explore our full business selling service for the complete picture.
We quietly reach out to a curated list of pre-qualified institutional buyers on your behalf — no public listing, no open-market exposure, no disruption to your operations or team. Buyers are sourced through our proprietary deal-sourcing network.
Before any buyer sees so much as your industry or revenue range, they sign a mutual non-disclosure agreement. Confidentiality is legally enforced from the very first contact — not as an afterthought.
NDA-cleared buyers receive access to a controlled data room containing your CIM, financial statements, and supporting materials — nothing circulates beyond vetted parties.
Interested buyers submit formal offers. Your dedicated advisor manages every negotiation on your behalf — evaluating structure, terms, and strategic fit — so you receive the strongest possible outcome without the back-and-forth falling on you.
We remain actively involved through the final close and handoff, coordinating with your legal counsel, managing timelines, and ensuring a smooth transition that protects your legacy and sets the buyer up for success.
Your first conversation is completely confidential. No commitment required.
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Start Your Consultation How We WorkFrom capital raises to business sales — business owners across industries trust Unity Acquisitions to deliver.
"Neil Kelly handled the sale of my online sales and manufacturing business. Within two weeks of putting it on the market, he presented several qualified buyers. The first buyer wrote us a Letter of Intent the same day for our asking price."
"We worked with Unity Acquisitions to help us raise $2,000,000 for a startup business based around a CBD Processing Lab. They were very knowledgeable and helped us to reach our goal in under 3 months from start to finish."
"We worked with Unity Acquisitions to help us raise capital for an alcohol and substance abuse treatment center. It took us 3 months to raise the capital we needed to get our business off the ground and the process was straight forward and well put together."
"We had solid recurring revenue but a lean team, and I wasn't sure how that would land with buyers. Unity reframed it — low overhead, high margin, scalable model. That framing held through the entire process. Closed in about ten weeks."
"I had no real benchmark for what the business was worth. Unity pulled the comps, built the CIM, and had three serious buyers at the table inside six weeks. Closed at a multiple I wouldn't have believed when we first spoke."
"I nearly accepted a direct approach from a strategic buyer before engaging Unity. They ran a competitive process, brought in two additional bidders, and we closed 40% above that first offer. That difference was entirely their work."
"We had a major customer contract up for renewal that any buyer would use to chip our price. Unity ran a compressed timeline and we closed before that date ever came into play. The timeline management alone was worth the engagement."
"The first offer looked reasonable until Unity broke down the earnout terms — they would have clawed back nearly a third of the headline number. We declined and closed at a meaningfully better figure four months later. One of the best calls we made."
"Our deal had a revenue-sharing arrangement with a hospital network that complicated diligence. Unity documented everything upfront and anticipated every buyer concern before it was raised. Not a single buyer dropped out. We closed on schedule."
"We've worked with several advisory firms over the years, but Unity Acquisitions stands apart. Their deal sourcing is disciplined — every opportunity we received was pre-vetted, properly packaged, and matched to our acquisition criteria. We closed two transactions with them in under eight months."
"I spent 19 years building this trucking and logistics company. When it was time to transition, I needed someone who would treat the sale with the same level of care I gave the business. Unity did exactly that — our buyer was operational within 30 days of closing and kept every key employee."
"Unity helped us raise $4.7 million in growth equity for our behavioral health clinics. They navigated a complicated regulatory environment without breaking stride and connected us with investors who understood the space deeply. Clean process, clean term sheet."
"We had tried to sell our distribution business on our own twice before. Both times fell apart at due diligence. Unity came in, identified exactly what was spooking buyers, helped us fix it, and had us under LOI within 60 days. Sold at a number we didn't think was achievable."
"Unity positioned Lumio's data assets and patient retention metrics in a way that attracted premium acquirers we wouldn't have reached on our own. The outcome exceeded our board's projections by a meaningful margin. Genuinely one of the most professional processes I've been part of."
"My father started this company in 1978. Selling it was one of the hardest decisions of my life. Neil and his team understood the emotional weight of that and handled every conversation with real sensitivity. We sold to a buyer who kept the team intact and honored the legacy of the business."
"Unity ran a competitive process that generated six qualified LOIs within 45 days of going to market. That level of buyer interest was something we never anticipated. Their process documentation and data room preparation were genuinely best-in-class — buyers said so repeatedly."
"We engaged Unity to source lower-middle market acquisition targets in the services sector. Over 18 months they brought us three proprietary off-market deals — exactly the kind of disciplined, relationship-driven sourcing a family office needs. Two closed. Outstanding long-term partnership."
"Our revenue cycle management business had a very specific buyer profile — and Unity found three qualified candidates within 60 days. The process was well-organized, completely confidential, and we never had an uncomfortable moment. Closed above asking price on the first offer."
"Raising growth capital for a renewable energy project is notoriously complex. Unity walked us through every structure — from project finance to private placement — and helped us close a $6.2M raise with a clean term sheet. They speak the language of sophisticated investors fluently."
"I was nervous about the confidentiality of the process — our staff had no idea a sale was in progress and I needed to keep it that way until closing. Unity managed this perfectly. Not one employee learned of the transaction before we were ready to announce. I can't thank them enough."
"Unity sourced an off-market acquisition for one of our portfolio companies that we had been unable to find through our own network for over a year. The seller was motivated, the business was clean, and the deal closed in 90 days. That kind of proprietary access is genuinely rare."
"As a single-family office focused on lower-middle market services businesses, off-market deal flow is everything to us. Unity has become one of our most consistent sources of proprietary opportunities — no auctions, no brokers marking up price expectations, just motivated sellers and clean books. We've completed three acquisitions through them."
"We specifically sought off-market targets to avoid the noise of competitive auction processes. Unity delivered exactly that — a manufacturing business in the Southeast that had never been listed publicly. The seller had been introduced through Unity's network, the deal was fully exclusive, and we closed in under four months. Exceptional sourcing."
"Our family office has a narrow mandate — healthcare services businesses between $3M and $15M in EBITDA. Unity understood our criteria from day one and never wasted our time on mismatched opportunities. Within six months they surfaced two proprietary deals. We closed the first one and are in diligence on the second."
"Most of the deal flow we see comes through the same syndicate channels — overpriced and heavily shopped. Unity brought us a bootstrapped SaaS platform that was generating $2.1M ARR with zero outside capital and a founder ready to transition. Off-market, clean cap table, and a motivated seller. That combination is almost impossible to find on your own."
"We were looking for a profitable acquisition target to bolt onto one of our existing portfolio companies. Unity came back with three off-market candidates within 30 days — all pre-qualified, all in our target EBITDA range, none of them on any public listing. We closed on our first choice. The speed and quality of their sourcing genuinely impressed our whole investment team."
"We engaged Unity specifically for their off-market deal sourcing after burning through two quarters chasing broker-represented businesses. The difference was immediate — the first opportunity they brought us was a regional HVAC services platform with $4.8M EBITDA, clean financials, and a seller who was realistic on price. We signed the LOI within three weeks of first call."
"Stonewall focuses on control buyouts in the $5M–$20M enterprise value range — a market that's crowded with intermediaries but thin on truly proprietary deal flow. Unity changed that for us. Over 14 months they've delivered four qualified off-market targets. We closed two and have a third in exclusivity. Their seller relationships are clearly real, not just cold outreach."
"The business Unity sourced for us was a founder-owned specialty staffing firm that had been quietly profitable for eleven years. The owner had never spoken to a broker. Unity had cultivated that relationship directly, made the introduction properly, and managed the seller's expectations throughout. By the time we met him, he was ready to deal. That's the kind of origination work that's genuinely hard to replicate."
"I've acquired four businesses over the past decade, all through traditional brokers. Every deal was over-priced and over-shopped by the time I saw it. Unity completely changed my acquisition strategy — the landscaping company they introduced me to had been operating for 22 years, was generating $1.1M in owner earnings, and had never once been listed. We closed quietly in 11 weeks."
"After leaving corporate finance, I wanted to own and operate a small business outright. Unity took the time to understand what I was looking for — recurring revenue, low customer concentration, owner-transferable — and matched me with a B2B document management firm that checked every box. The deal was completely off-market. I never would have found it on my own."
"We had been searching for a multi-site field services business for nearly two years. Every broker-represented deal we evaluated was either over-levered, mis-priced, or had clean-up issues the seller hadn't disclosed. Unity brought us an off-market target with zero prior broker contact, straightforward financials, and a seller who had already decided he was done. We closed at a fair multiple without a single competing bid. That's what proprietary deal flow actually means."
"Our fund thesis is built around buying well-run businesses from founders who are genuinely ready to move on — not sellers who are testing the market. Unity is one of the only sources we've found that consistently delivers that. The transaction they facilitated for us last year was a $6.2M EBITDA distribution services company. Seller had been in business 19 years, never listed publicly, and was introduced to us exclusively. No process, no auction, no drama. Exactly how we prefer to operate."
Our clients are not just numbers. Every engagement is built around a disciplined process, transparent communication, and a genuine commitment to maximizing your outcome.
We invest significant time to properly understand and value your business before going to market — so you never leave money on the table and never waste time with unqualified buyers.
We connect sellers and capital-seekers exclusively with serious, pre-qualified buyers and investors — resulting in faster timelines and stronger offers from day one.
From initial consultation through closing, we manage every step with strict confidentiality, professional communication, and hands-on guidance so you can focus on running your business.
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