Hi, I'm Matt

With almost 3 decades of M&A experience, and the support of an amazing team at Brandywine Mergers & Acquisitions, I’ve guided hundreds of owners to successful exits. I still run Brandywine and will until I sell it and retire in 10 years (yes, I hope to be you one day).

But Brandywine does one thing. It offers full service M&A Advisory services to business owners who are ready to find a buyer and get paid to retire or do something else. 

Business owners hire Brandywine to represent them. To take them to market, to find buyers, to negotiate the deal, and to bring it home. Brandywine does that very well, partly because that’s all Brandywine does. The Brandywine team wakes up and goes to sleep thinking about deals. 

So what about all of the owners and advisors that aren't there yet? That are thinking about getting out but aren’t sure where to start. That have no idea what they’re worth? That just got a call from a private equity group who wants to make an offer? Where do they go? They come here -- to Formation.

They come to Formation when they have a buyer chasing them and need some timely advice.

They come to Formation when they want to prepare properly for the biggest financial event of their life through the M&A Mastery Program.

What is "Formation" and how did its flagship "M&A Mastery Program" come about? 

Well, we had a little downtime during the Pandemic and put that to use. With the help of my son Caelan, a recent Clemson Business School graduate (Go Tigers), I poured everything I know about M&A into the M&A Mastery Program. Building upon many of the concepts I addressed in my book (Straight Talk from the Front Lines) we built two versions of an 8-week mentoring program. One for Business Owners and one for Financial Advisors. 

I had grown tired of watching business owners leave money on the table or waste years of their lives building businesses nobody wants. It’s hard to watch. But here's the kicker ... the differences between highly attractive businesses and ones that sit on the shelf are surprisingly few. And almost all of those gaps can be closed with a little knowledge and a little time. The M&A Mastery Program closes those gaps.

When the pandemic slowed down, we kept the M&A Mastery program going because it works. And since Caelan and our design team built these programs in a state-of-the-art delivery platform, we can now easily impact the lives of business owners around the country. We keep enrollment at around 6 owners / advisors at a time because I personally spend one hour per week with each client. 

It is said that there are 10 million business owners out there that will need to sell in the next 10 years. I can't say if that is an accurate number or not. But there sure are a lot of you out there. And we have come up with several ways of helping you at various times in your journey to the closing table. Please scroll down to see our 4 "Ways to work together".