Portfolio-wide exit prep and an honest exit-readiness score for PE firms — from advisors who've sold to PE buyers many times. Sell-side only.
20Seven is a sell-side M&A advisory that works with PE firms to prepare and run exits for their portfolio companies, representing the company as seller.
We've sold companies to many PE-backed acquirers, so we know exactly how a PE buyer underwrites and where they push on price and terms. We use that to prepare your companies for the buyers on the other side — with an honest exit-readiness score, not a sales pitch. Always sell-side.
We prepare the business the way its buyers will read it — deep dive, ranked acquirer map, and a tight process — so the exit lands on the fund's timeline and holds up under a demanding buyer's diligence.
We score each company's exit readiness and share it straight with the fund and the management team, so capital and attention go where they'll actually move the outcome.
We've sold companies to many PE-backed acquirers, so we know how a PE buyer builds their model, where they hunt for discounts, and where they push on price and terms — and we close those gaps before they find them.
A straight, comparable read on how prepared each company is to sell — the story, the numbers, the buyer universe, and the gaps to close. Shared with the fund and the management team, no spin.
The same rigorous engine applied across the fund's companies — deep dive, acquirer map, outreach, and cadence for each, run to the fund's priorities.
Connected across the strategics, sponsors, and larger platforms your companies exit to — so approaches reach real decision-makers, not a generic list.
We've built and sold companies ourselves, so we prepare each business as operators who know what a demanding buyer will actually test.
We represent the company as seller — never the buyer, never both sides. The fund's and the company's interests are the only ones we protect.
We score each portfolio company's exit readiness, prepare it the way its buyers will read it, and run a tight process when its timing is right — all sell-side. The full method lives in our Strategic Sale Planning. See how Strategic Sale Planning works.
Five minutes while you walk to get a coffee. No pitch—just the truth about what your company is worth and who might buy it.