Our Firm
About Us
The Arch Group serves entrepreneurial business owners operating in the underserved lower middle market. With decades of investing in and operating businesses in select industries, we are the preferred M&A advisory partner due to our firsthand knowledge of what buyers value.
Our ability to guide owners through the growth, perpetuation, and exit planning phases of their business lifecycle is proven with over 150 transactions completed representing more than $500 million of unlocked value.
Team
Our team has built leading platform business within the dental, physical therapy, behavioral health, and professional services industries.
Our deep knowledge of market dynamics, institutional and regional buyers profiles, and business characteristics that are most or least desired by those buyers allows us to offer our clients a unique perspective on how best to position their business for optimal outcomes.
Values
We are grounded in our core values which drive our sense of urgency:
Family - Successful businesses have delivered more than money to their owners. Owner's families receive unmatched piece of mind, optionality, and freedom. We evaluate the generational impact of all strategic business options available.
Transformative - To provide you, your family, team members and clients with the best outcomes, we are transformative instead of transactional advisors. We collaboratively work with business owners to prepare their firm for the desired outcomes and ensure you control your own destiny.
Trust - As with any once in a lifetime decision, working with the right team is critical in achieving great outcomes. We value spending time with great people and assisting in their journey to realize full potential.
Excellence - Our team strives to be best in class. We work with owners who are constantly striving to improve.
Winning - As former collegiate athletes, we are highly competitive, enjoy winning, and believe high performing teams can generate the best outcomes.
Services
Proven investment team support
Sell Side Advisory - Full-exit, partial-exit, recapitalization, growth capital, private equity, or family office? There are more options available than ever to successful business owners. We help you evaluate all strategic options and also transform your business to qualify for options you may not currently consider.
Our sell-side practice utilizes a consultative approach to understand your vision and business life-cycle stage to continue to position your business for success. We have found the vast majority of owners do not fully understand the nuances of available options to them. Let us work together to realize more value.
Buy Side - For private equity firms, acquisitive businesses in growth mode, and investors seeking proprietary investments, we work on their behalf to organically identify and source opportunities for mergers and acquisitions.
Valuation Services - Most businesses are their owner's most valuable asset impacting their family's generational net worth. Understanding the value of your business, and what you can do to increase the value of that asset, should always be top of mind. Understanding value and available options becomes even more critical when multi-partner or multi-generational dynamics are present.
Our team consists of Chartered Financial Analysts, Certified Public Accounts, and seasoned investors who have evaluated and transacted hundreds of businesses. We leverage our business building, transactional, and institutional investing experience to determine accurate market values for your business.
Strategic Advisory - Having invested in, built, and sold hundreds of businesses, we work with owners to help them deploy financial capital, intellectual capital, and human capital in the most effective way to transform their firm into their vision.