You’ll only sell your
business once.
We make sure
you do it right.
Selling your business is the most emotional deal of your life. Two senior partners carry the weight with you — and in an industry where only 1 in 3 businesses sell, we get yours across the finish line, for more than you thought possible.
Only 1 in 3 businesses that go to market actually sell.
Most fail not because the business isn’t good — but because of poor preparation, the wrong advisor, or a process that unravels under diligence. We close nearly triple the industry average: we prepare clients before going to market, run a tightly controlled process, and stay engaged to closing.
Two senior partners. One focus. Maximizing your outcome.
When you hire Kinected, Kevin Berson and Jim Twerdahl personally lead your engagement — from positioning through close. You will never wonder who is working on your deal.
A huge thank you for all the support and guidance — we couldn’t have done this without you in our corner. We’re very thankful we had you with us every step of the way.
On the other side of your negotiating table is a professional buyer who has completed dozens — sometimes hundreds — of transactions. For most business owners, this is the first and only time they will ever sell a company. That asymmetry is precisely why experienced representation isn’t optional. It’s the equalizer.
Too big for a business broker.
Too small for a Wall Street bank.
That gap — companies worth $10M to $100M — is who we represent, with the senior, hands-on attention they deserve.
The businesses we take to market are profitable companies — generally $1M+ in EBITDA, with clean, reliable financials.
Not there yet? Through ExitBoost™, our pre-sale value-building program, we also consult with owners earlier in the journey — strengthening the business and getting it sale-ready, so it qualifies when the time comes.
Everything you need to sell for maximum value.
Kinected is exclusively sell-side — we don’t represent buyers, manage acquisitions, or raise capital. Our focus is singular: help owners sell for maximum value, on the terms that matter to them.
- Strategic positioning & Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM) development
- Buyer identification and controlled outreach
- Indication of Interest (IOI) / Letter of Intent (LOI) management and bid evaluation
- Deal structure & terms negotiation
- Due diligence coordination through close
- Current market valuation
- True profitability analysis
- Benchmarking analysis
- Salability scorecard
- Strategic recommendations
- Comparable transaction benchmarking
- EBITDA multiple analysis by sector
- Buyer appetite assessment
- Deal structure considerations
- Honest assessment of readiness and timing
A disciplined process that protects you at every stage.
We follow the same structured, five-phase process on every engagement — customized to your business, your timeline, and your personal goals. We carry the weight of the deal; you keep running your company. Nothing is improvised, and you are never in the dark.
Targeted 8–10 month process, from kickoff through close.
- Kick-off & team alignment
- Financial normalization
- Strategic narrative development
- Teaser & Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM) drafting
- Buyer universe build
- Target buyer contact
- NDA execution & management
- CIM distribution
- Management Q&A
- Collect Indications of Interest (IOIs)
- Evaluate fit & price
- Shortlist 4–6 buyers
- Schedule mgmt. meetings
- Management presentations
- Site visits & data room
- Negotiate final Letters of Intent (LOIs)
- Select buyer & enter exclusivity
- Confirmatory diligence
- Final purchase agreement
- Financing & regulatory
- Signing & closing
The buyer across the table has evaluated
hundreds of businesses.
They know what’s wrong with yours before you do.
Professional buyers have a checklist — and they’ll use every weakness to justify a lower offer. Kinected works with owners 12–36 months before going to market to find and close those gaps first. Once you’re on market, it’s too late.
Know exactly where
you stand before
anyone else does.
ExitBoost™ is Kinected’s proprietary exit readiness assessment. We score your business across six value dimensions — exactly the way buyers will — then give you a prioritized plan to close the gaps. Clients who complete it have typically seen valuation increases of 20–50%.
Enter your email and we’ll send you an anonymized sample assessment — so you can see exactly what you’d receive before committing to anything.
We maximize outcomes.
Every transaction below represents a business owner who trusted us with the most important financial decision of their life — and closed at or above their expectations.
Construction management for major utility clients. Where buyers might have flagged customer concentration, Kinected reframed it as strength — long-term master service agreements with blue-chip utilities and a deep backlog riding surging infrastructure spend. Closed in 8 months with Think Power Solutions, a Warren Equity Partners company, at a 50% premium above the partners’ expectations.
EXIT
300 Buyers to Find the One Who Got It
An international apparel and housewares brand — based in Europe, sellers in Asia, buyer found on the West Coast. We launched into a market where strategic buyers had gone dark and financing had all but frozen. Most advisors stop at 50 buyers; Kinected contacted 300+, because the right buyer wasn’t just a check — they had to understand the narrative. We found them: 50+ NDAs, Tier 1 global bank financing secured in a near-frozen market, and a cross-border close at 120% above the seller’s initial expectations.
Contacted
NDAs
Discussions
Spanned
Precision metal components for aerospace and defense — with direct relationships at Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop, NASA, and SpaceX, and full ITAR registration. The sellers inherited the business and assumed a shop like this would be hard to sell. Kinected proved otherwise — closing in under five months at full target valuation, to a former president of a peer aerospace manufacturer who knew exactly what he was buying.
When the owner first came to Kinected, we told him what most advisors wouldn’t: the business wasn’t ready. Instead of taking the engagement, we helped him build it — cutting non-core services, shifting to recurring revenue, and repositioning for buyers who pay premium multiples for predictable IT managed services. He came back with a different story, closing with CIO Solutions at a premium multiple. Sometimes the best deal starts years before the process.
Case study details sourced from kinected.com/results/. Results represent individual transactions and are not guaranteed. Additional case studies available upon request.
A track record across industries.
A selection of completed advisory engagements and principal-led transactions across industries and deal structures.
Two partners. Twenty-five years each. One team.
You work directly with Kevin and Jim — senior partners on every deal, start to finish.
By design, we take on few engagements at a time — so your deal always has a partner’s full focus, never a junior banker’s fraction. You’re never short-handed, either: we bring in vetted legal, tax, and quality-of-earnings specialists exactly when needed.
Kevin founded Kinected Advisors in 2014 to bring institutional-quality M&A advisory to privately held businesses — the rigorous, relationship-driven process owners deserve but rarely get from the firms that serve this market.
Before founding the firm, he spent over eleven years at Technicolor — a $5B global technology company — rising from a $5M SAP implementation to evaluating and executing acquisitions in digital advertising and media, personally leading three transactions valued at $350M+. That’s where he learned to think like a buyer: how they build their models, hunt for risk, and justify chipping away at price. He now uses that knowledge exclusively on behalf of sellers.
Before Technicolor, six years at Arthur Andersen — finishing in the top 10% of consultants firm-wide and managing teams of up to 35, learning to walk into any business and quickly see where value is created and where it’s at risk. That’s exactly what he does in every sell-side engagement today.
Outside of work, Kevin is kept busy by his wife and two teenage sons — and when he’s not closing a deal, you’ll likely find him on the tennis court.
- BA, UCLA · MBA, USC Marshall School of Business
- CEPA · CM&AP · CBI · M&AMI · Licensed Broker, California Department of Real Estate
- LA Business Journal Investment Banking Leader of Influence — 2021–2026
- UCLA Bruin Business 100 · 2023
Jim spent decades running major businesses before he advised on selling them. He was CEO of Jensen Sound Laboratories, a $150M division of Beatrice Foods; President of JBL Inc. — the legendary loudspeaker brand under Harman International — while a Senior VP and Director of the parent company; and President of Marantz Company. He’s sat in the boardroom as an operator, as an acquirer, and now as an advisor — an arc that’s rare, and invaluable at the negotiating table.
On every Kinected engagement, that shows up where it counts — Jim has run international operations, managed complex due diligence from the inside, and knows firsthand the tactics buyers use to pressure sellers and chip away at price.
He taught in the graduate business school at Loyola Marymount and lectured at USC, UCLA, and Northwestern — and that teacher’s gift shows in how clearly he walks first-time sellers through the process.
Away from the deal table, Jim gave 25 years to the House Research Institute as a Trustee — six as chair — supporting one of the country’s leading centers for hearing research, a cause that traces straight back to a life spent in sound.
- MBA — Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
- Former President & CEO: Jensen Sound Laboratories, JBL Inc. (Harman International), Marantz Company
- M&A Advisor · PE Due Diligence Specialist
Jim Twerdahl and Kevin Berson — BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells
From owners who have been through it.
Selling is personal. These are some of the things clients have said after working with us through the most important transaction of their business lives.
We thought our only options were to shut the doors or hand it off to a local competitor at a discount. Kinected changed that completely — multiple real offers, closed in six months, 20% above what we thought was our ceiling. We are thrilled with the outcome and couldn’t have done it without them.
“Kevin is an absolute beast when it comes to being available around the clock and doing whatever it takes to support the team.”
“Jim always kept us grounded, focused on the big picture, and brought a tremendous amount of wisdom to the process.”
I will never be able to fully express the appreciation I have for you. You made an incredibly painful and frustrating situation manageable — and handled it pleasantly, professionally, and in a very timely manner. Thank you for seeing that I needed you and choosing to help me.
Kevin’s responsiveness was unmatched — calls, texts, emails, answered immediately. Multiple offers, an accelerated timeline, better than expected price. He guided us through every step and got our goals accomplished.
You spent decades building this business. It’s more than an asset —
it’s your life’s work, and your next chapter depends on getting this right.
If you’re planning to sell in the next 1–5 years,
this is where the work starts.
They’re engineered long before
a buyer shows up.
What every seller should know before going to market.
Straight talk from 50 years of closing transactions in the lower middle market.
Most business owners sell once. The buyer across the table has done it dozens — sometimes hundreds — of times. That asymmetry is not an accident. Here are five specific tactics professional buyers use to chip away at price, and exactly how to counter each one.
→ 60 NDAs executed
→ 10 strong offers
→ 50% above expectations
Straight answers to the questions every seller asks.
What size businesses does Kinected represent?
How long does it take to sell a business?
How will buyers value my business?
Will anyone find out my business is for sale?
I already have an interested buyer. Do I still need an advisor?
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
Every engagement begins with a confidential, no-obligation conversation with Kevin or Jim directly. We’ll give you a candid view of what your business would command in today’s market — and whatever you decide, you’ll walk away knowing exactly where you stand.
All conversations are strictly confidential. We do not share or disclose any information discussed without your explicit permission.
Fees are commensurate with deal size and complexity — we’ll cover our engagement structure on the first call.