We only sell businesses we believe in.
LePrince Group is a founder-led M&A advisory firm for mid-market companies, headquartered in Abu Dhabi and working globally. We advise on $10m to $100m+ transactions, take a selective number of mandates, and are paid on outcomes, not hours.
Founder-led
A decade building, scaling, and selling companies of our own.
Outcome-based
Our fee is tied to your close, never billed by the hour.
Selective
We only represent companies we believe will sell.
Confidential
We never publicise a client, a company, or a deal.
Most advisors win when you sign. We win when you do.
Why most sale processes disappoint. The industry knows these four. Few firms are built to fix them.
The flattering valuation wins the mandate, then loses the sale
A number chosen to win your signature is a number buyers won't pay. The discount arrives the moment diligence opens.
The energy fades after signing
The pitch is senior and attentive. The process that follows often isn't. Shareholders end up driving their own sale.
The person who won you is not the person running your deal
At most firms, the partner pitches and a junior team executes. Your transaction deserves the judgment you were sold.
The fee clock has no reason to hurry
A firm billing time profits from a longer process. The incentive runs against you from day one.
We built the structural opposite. We sign only what we would stake our name on, at a price we genuinely believe a buyer will pay, run by the person who took the mandate, paid only at the close.
We don't take listings. We take businesses that will sell. If we take the mandate, we believe in the price. And buyers learn that when LePrince calls, it's worth picking up.
One firm. Three capabilities.
We make a business worth more, then sell it well. And we help the right buyers acquire well too.
↗Sell-Side M&AWe prepare a business properly, position it for the buyers who'll pay the most, and run a competitive process to a close that reflects its real value. Every mandate we accept is one we believe will sell.
↗Value CreationWe make a business worth more before it sells. When a business isn't ready, "not yet" comes with the honest reasons why, and the work that closes the gap between today's price and the right one.
↗Buy-Side M&AFor corporates, private equity, family offices, and individual acquirers. We source the right targets, run diligence that tells the truth, and structure deals so the value holds.
Deep in a few industries, not shallow in all.
Global by reach, organised by industry. We'd rather know a sector the way an owner does than cover every sector the way a generalist must.
Business Services & B2B
01Managed IT, professional services, outsourced operations, staffing, facilities. Recurring revenue, deep institutional buyer pools, and the most active acquisition engines in the mid-market.
Industrials & Essential Services
02Industrial maintenance, building services, environmental, testing and inspection, distribution. Essential, succession-rich businesses that serious buyers compete for.
Healthcare Services
03Clinic networks, diagnostics, home health, healthcare operations. A sector where choosing the right buyer matters as much as the number, and where we vet for both.
Consumer
04Consumer products, brands, and food and beverage manufacturing and distribution. The world our founder built in, sold in, and brought to US retail.
From preparation to close.
A sale is won or lost long before the offers come in. Four stages, run with discipline.
Preparation
VDR, Information MemorandumWe get the asset sale-ready and build the story that makes buyers compete.
Field Calls
Buyer outreach, Management callsA competitive process across the right buyers, not one conversation.
Negotiation & LOIs
Competing offers, TermsWe drive buyers to letters of intent and negotiate price, structure, and protections.
Closing
Diligence, DocumentationWe hold terms and momentum through to a close you'd sign again.
LePrince Group's sell-side M&A process runs in four stages: preparation (VDR, information memorandum, marketing materials), field calls (buyer outreach and management calls), negotiation and letters of intent (LOIs), and closing.
Built from first-hand experience.
LePrince Group was founded by Hugo LePrince, who has spent the past decade building companies. He co-founded his first venture as a teenager, and at twenty co-founded Creed Media, one of the most influential Gen-Z marketing companies in the world, growing it from three people into a global team working with some of the biggest artists on earth, through to a strategic sale.
He went on to sell consumer products for eight figures, bring brands into US retail, and build Aldren, the leading retail distributor for emerging DTC brands. He learned M&A the way the best dealmakers do: from the principal's side of the table, with his own capital and his own companies on the line. Most M&A advisors have only ever advised. We've built, scaled, and sold, repeatedly, so we know what a business is really worth, what a buyer is really paying for, and where value is won and lost.
- Co-founder, Creed Media
- Aldren, retail distribution for emerging DTC brands
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe
- Eight-figure consumer exits
Both sides of the table. Every kind of principal.
Mid-market transactions bring together very different principals. We work with all of them, on the side of the table they sit on.
Selling
- Founders & entrepreneursSelling what you built, for what it's worth, to the right buyer.
- Family-held companiesSuccession, partial sales, and exits handled with the discretion a family name demands.
- Shareholders & boardsAn honest read on the options: hold, grow, sell, or respond to an approach.
- Funds divestingPortfolio company exits run with competitive tension and momentum to close.
Buying
- Corporates & enterprisesAcquisitions mapped to strategy, diligenced for what's actually true, structured to hold.
- Private equity & fundsPlatform and add-on origination in our sectors, with diligence that protects the thesis.
- Family officesDirect acquisitions of quality companies, sourced and vetted to institutional standard.
- Individual acquirers & search fundsExperienced acquirers with committed capital, buying the right company at the right terms.
Acquiring in our sectors? Tell us your thesis, and we'll bring you the companies worth your diligence, and nothing else.
Questions owners ask us.
What does LePrince Group do?
LePrince Group is a founder-led M&A advisory firm for mid-market companies, headquartered in Abu Dhabi and working globally. We advise owners and shareholders on selling and buying businesses, and we represent a selective number of mandates we believe will close, on an outcome-based fee model.
Who does LePrince Group work with?
On the sell-side: founders, family-held companies, shareholders, boards, and funds divesting portfolio companies. On the buy-side: corporates and enterprises, private equity and funds, family offices, and experienced individual acquirers. Every mandate is mid-market, $10m to $100m+ in enterprise value.
Is LePrince Group a business broker?
No. LePrince Group is an M&A advisory firm for mid-market companies of $10m to $100m+ in enterprise value. We run selective, competitively managed sale processes. We do not operate listings or a marketplace.
Why don't you take every mandate?
Because our model only works if every mandate we accept is one we believe will sell. An unsold mandate damages the one thing we're building: the signal that a LePrince process means a business worth a buyer's time. Selectivity is the product, not a constraint on it.
What is sell-side M&A advisory?
Sell-side advisory is guiding a business owner through a sale: preparing the business, building the information memorandum and data room, identifying buyers, running a competitive process, and negotiating to close. LePrince Group leads with sell-side advisory.
How are your fees structured?
We work on outcome-based pricing. Our fee is tied to the result of the transaction, the close and the terms, rather than billed hourly.
Who founded LePrince Group?
LePrince Group was founded by Hugo LePrince, co-founder of Creed Media, a Gen-Z marketing company recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe that sold a strategic stake to an international investment group in 2021.
What size of transactions do you advise on?
We advise on mid-market transactions of $10m to $100m+ in enterprise value. We are an advisory firm, not a business brokerage.
Which markets do you cover?
We work globally from our headquarters in Abu Dhabi, with operating roots in Europe and the US. We organize by industry rather than geography, going deep in the sectors we know.
Thinking about selling, buying, or whether now is the time?
Every conversation starts with the LePrince Read: our honest, evidence-based view of what your company is worth, whether it would sell, and what would change the number. Confidential, and yours to keep whatever you decide.
We take a limited number of mandates. Request a conversation if:
- Your company is in the $10m to $100m+ enterprise value range
- You operate in or adjacent to our four sectors
- You want an honest read, not a flattering one