South Texas business brokers and M&A advisors

Military, trade with Mexico, energy and agriculture

South Texas has several economic engines. San Antonio combines a large military presence with healthcare, finance and tourism. Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley sit on the border, where international bridges carry trade between Texas and Mexico and support trucking, warehousing and customs-related businesses. Corpus Christi has its port and refineries, and the Eagle Ford Shale brought oil and gas activity to much of the region's ranch country.

Agriculture remains important too, from Rio Grande Valley citrus to cattle ranching across the brush country. New Braunfels and the I-35 corridor toward Austin add manufacturing and suburban development, and the region's Mexican American and Tejano heritage shapes its culture and many of its family-owned businesses. For an owner, that variety means the likely buyer depends heavily on which of these economies your company belongs to.

Border trade, bases and oilfields: what South Texas buyers ask

For a border-trade or logistics company, buyers study customer contracts, how cross-border volume has held up, and whether licenses and relationships stay with the business after the owner leaves. For a company serving the military, they ask about contract renewals. For energy-related firms, they want to see earnings across the cycle, not just in a busy year. Produce and cattle businesses face their own questions about weather, water and commodity prices.

Home-service and business-service companies around San Antonio and New Braunfels draw a different group: private equity firms building regional platforms and individual buyers who want an established company. Family-owned businesses, where relatives hold key roles, also need a clear plan for who stays and who steps away. Our distribution and home services pages explain what each group pays for.

Our terms for South Texas owners

Everything we do is on the seller's side of the table, with a principal of the firm in the room for each negotiation. It starts with a no-cost discovery conversation and an opinion of value drawn from three years of your financial statements. Buyers then meet your company as a blind profile, and none of them learns the name until they have registered, signed a nondisclosure agreement and shown they can pay.

If a sale is a year or two away, our pre-exit consulting covers the 12 to 24 months before going to market, a separate service with its own price. When you are ready, competing letters of intent are negotiated together so buyers bid against one another. Most deals close in three to nine months, although the firm has closed in eight days and taken eighteen months. The success fee applies only if a sale happens, and the quickest place to start is the valuation snapshot.