Sector
Software & Vertical SaaS
Structure
Sell-side
Enterprise Value
$120M – $180M
Buyer Type
Strategic acquirer
Sectors & Transactions
Where we have run processes. Where we have closed.
A confidential review of the eleven verticals in which MBF Group has executed mid-market mandates since 2009 — and the structures our partners know how to run.
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Coverage Map
Eleven sectors. One coverage model.
Locate your industry below. Each practice is led by a sector MD supported by a dedicated associate bench; every mandate runs against a buyer universe shaped to that specific vertical.
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Industrial Services & Specialty Distribution
Roll-up platforms, field-service operators, and asset-light distribution businesses.
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Healthcare Services & Life Sciences
Provider networks, payors, ancillary services, and outsourced clinical platforms.
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Software & Vertical SaaS
Vertical applications, infrastructure software, and recurring-revenue platforms.
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Business Services & Staffing
Outsourced services, workforce solutions, and recurring-contract operators.
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Consumer Products & Brands
Founder-led brands, specialty CPG, and category-defining product companies.
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Financial Services & Asset Management
RIAs, specialty lenders, wealth platforms, and asset-light financial operators.
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Manufacturing & Industrial Technology
Specialty manufacturing, automation, and engineered-component producers.
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Energy Services & Cleantech
Field services for energy operators, efficiency platforms, and adjacent infrastructure.
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09
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Cleared contractors, mission-critical support, and adjacent commercial aerospace.
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10
Media, Marketing & Information Services
Data, analytics, content, and outsourced marketing-services platforms.
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Education & Training Services
Workforce training, K-12 and post-secondary operators, and credentialing platforms.
By the Numbers
Coverage depth, measured.
140+
Mid-market transactions closed since 2009
47,000+
Qualified strategic and financial buyers in the MBF Atlas
4.7mo
Average time from mandate to signed transaction
#7
2024 Refinitiv Mid-Market M&A League Table, $50M–$500M band
Representative Transactions
Recent processes, anonymized by mandate.
Mandates are confidential. The four rows below describe structure and counterparty type — not parties — to illustrate the range of processes our partners run each quarter.
Sector
Industrial Services & Distribution
Structure
Recapitalization
Enterprise Value
$210M – $260M
Buyer Type
Financial sponsor
Sector
Healthcare Services
Structure
Buy-side advisory
Enterprise Value
$80M – $110M
Buyer Type
Strategic platform
Sector
Business Services
Structure
Sell-side
Enterprise Value
$150M – $200M
Buyer Type
Strategic + financial co-bidder
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Market Commentary
Analysts-of-record across our sectors.
Industrial Services
Roll-up appetite from strategic acquirers remains the dominant theme, with mid-sized operators consolidating fragmented regional niches. Sponsors are competing selectively where management depth survives the integration thesis. Valuations have stabilized at the lower end of historical multiples, but quality of earnings — and the durability of the contracted book — separates the bids that close from the ones that do not.
Healthcare Services
Regulatory overhang continues to compress entry multiples in physician-services and home-based care, but well-positioned platforms with diversified payor mix and demonstrable clinical outcomes are still attracting both strategic and financial capital. The market is bifurcated: process discipline at the diligence stage has become the single largest determinant of close rate.
Software & Vertical SaaS
Public-market compression has reset expectations across the vertical, but private buyers — particularly sponsors and strategic platforms that have already absorbed 2022–2023 write-downs — are returning with sharper underwriting and longer hold assumptions. Operators with proven net retention and identifiable expansion vectors are still transacting at premium multiples; the rest are pricing for cash today, not story.