Bravaldo Capital Advisors, Inc.◆Boutique M&A & Corporate Finance◆Atlanta, Georgia
A boutique Atlanta M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for private, closely held, family-run and owner-founder-led businesses — revenues of $10M–$300M. We maximize valuation by orchestrating competitive sales processes — and minimize the wasted time, money and transaction risk that come with doing a deal the wrong way.
Direct — Don Bravaldo, CPA · President & Founder
dbravaldo@bc-advisors.com · (404) 857-2221
Overlook II · 2839 Paces Ferry Road SE, Suite 450 · Atlanta, GA 30339
Bravaldo Capital Advisors
has served as exclusive M&A advisor to
Building Maintenance
Services, Inc.
a leading Southeastern commercial cleaning services provider, founded in 1989 — janitorial, floor care, window cleaning, pressure washing and interior painting for commercial, industrial, municipal, educational and healthcare customers across Georgia and Florida
in its acquisition by
Scopes Facility Services, Inc.
a portfolio company of Westbridge Capital Ltd. · a Canadian private equity firm targeting $2M–$20M EBITDA businesses
August 2025
Affiliations & professional standing
No. 03 — Instruments for the Informed Owner
Three working instruments, built the way we work: research-oriented, process-driven and customized. Stress-test your advisor’s attention, our global reach, and what a competitive process does to your number.
How many active clients does your advisor serve simultaneously?
At sixty clients, no senior banker knows your business — a junior analyst does the math and a committee does the selling.
We are selective, serving only a small number of active clients each year. That is not a slogan — it is how we maintain the high staff-to-client ratio that allows hands-on guidance and a customized approach on every engagement.
≈ 900 sell-side process hours ÷ clients served · staffed down, not up
Senior-led from first call to closing · 50+ years combined deal team on it
Cross-border, verified: the sale of Building Maintenance Services to Scopes Facility Services — a portfolio company of Canadian private equity firm Westbridge Capital; the win-win-win PSP Canada transaction; and Accelebrate’s sale to Alpine, highlighted in Pandea’s 2022 cross-border deal statistics. Your buyer pool doesn’t stop at the Southeast — it stops nowhere.
Illustrative arithmetic only — not a valuation opinion or appraisal. Your multiple depends on growth, recurrence, customer concentration, management depth and buyer fit. That is what a real pre-deal planning conversation is for.
No. 04 — The Bravaldo Standard
We purposefully maintain a high staff-to-client ratio — serving only a small number of active clients each year. That is what allows the highest level of personalized attention, hands-on guidance and a customized approach on every single engagement.
“Relationships matter. Working with a firm that specializes in the lower middle market is the difference in getting your transaction across the finish line.”
Over 10,000 M&A and corporate finance relationships built and maintained over the last two decades — acquirers, investors and financing sources who commonly transact in the lower middle market and answer our calls.
A proud member of Pandea Global M&A: over 25 affiliated companies, 250+ professionals in more than 33 countries — and a network of 360+ professionals across 34 countries ranked among the ten largest M&A networks, completing 238 deals valued at €3.1B in 2022 alone.
Every exit is unique — your strategy should reflect that. A sale to a third party is not the only successful way to exit a business. We look beyond traditional exit strategies, including internal transactions such as an ESOP or management buyout, to find the best solution for your situation.
M&A deals are already complex. Considering a carve-out of a business unit or a divestiture raises the stakes another level — and we excel in offering the guidance and execution services that navigate those nuances for private owners and management teams.
Our advisory board is comprised of former business owners and Fortune 500 C-level executives with deep industry operating expertise and hands-on transactional experience. When you want to learn from someone who has grown a business and navigated a successful exit — you have come to the right advisory firm.
Every engagement is designed to achieve exceptional results through verifiable milestones and deliverables — maximizing acquirer, investor and financier competition in sell-side engagements, or avoiding and removing competition by directly sourcing proprietary acquisition targets under buy-side engagements.
A transaction is the hardest decision of a builder’s life, and it is emotional. Clients tell us what surprised them most wasn’t the business support — it was the personal support, guiding owners and families through unexpected ups and downs, long before and long after the engagement letter.
No. 05 — The BCA Process
Planning is crucial, but success is dependent on implementation and execution. So we run a process-driven engagement with deliverables you can hold in your hand — while you keep doing what you do best: running the business.
Our preference is to build the relationship years in advance — preparing you and the business for a sale or recapitalization long before it happens. Early planning brings a critical perspective on timing and readiness, and it is an invaluable tool in maximizing success.
Verifiable milestones
Each engagement is planned with a fresh perspective and customized to your company’s unique strengths and competitive advantages — because your business is different, and your process should be too.
Verifiable milestones
An active, laser-focused approach to finding the appropriate, high-quality, motivated buyers that fit your desired outcome — then telling the story of your business so each buyer understands exactly what they are acquiring, and what it is worth.
Verifiable milestones
We leverage competition on price, structure and terms — the way we did for PTI on an unsolicited strategic offer, producing dramatic improvements in valuation and structure, and for TPI, increasing transaction value while reducing post-transaction risk.
Verifiable milestones
Deals don’t usually die on price — they die in diligence. We orchestrate a comprehensive process, coordinating attorneys, accountants and lenders, so the transaction that closed at the table is the transaction that closes at the wire.
Verifiable milestones
Whether we are orchestrating a competitive sale, executing growth-through-acquisition, or guiding an internal exit — an Employee Stock Ownership Plan or management buyout — the objective is the same: maximize economic and strategic value while you maintain your focus on running the business.
No. 06 — The Tombstone Vault
Each of these announcements represents a family’s life work — sold, recapitalized or defended. Select a tombstone to read the full story, in the owners’ own words.
27 deals · PitchBook
$250M+ transacted
Showing 14 of 27 closed transactions — many engagements remain confidential by design.
No. 07 — What We Do
A full range of transaction advisory services for private business owners and management teams — guiding sell-side transactions, exit-strategy planning, growth through acquisition, debt restructuring and corporate recapitalization.
If you are ready to sell all or part of your business, we help you maximize value through a combination of careful pre-deal planning and a confidentially managed competitive sales process. From the first readiness conversation to the wire at closing, the same senior team carries your deal — no hand-offs, no volume mills.
We help you increase the value of your business by executing the right deals — deals that help you grow, expand and transform. Under buy-side engagements we avoid or remove competition by directly sourcing proprietary acquisition targets through our 10,000-relationship network and the Pandea global platform.
We are skilled at helping you get the capital you need for growth and strategic projects — including acquisitions, new product and service offerings, plant expansions, refinancing and establishing new lending and financing relationships. When the debt capital markets wobble, we counsel patience — and then locate the right partner, as we did for Red Clay Consulting.
M&A deals are already complex. Carving out a business unit or executing a divestiture raises the stakes another level — we excel in offering guidance and execution services to private owners and management teams on the nuances of divestitures and carve-outs.
Every exit is unique, and your strategy should reflect that. A sale to a third party is not the only successful way to exit a business — we look beyond traditional exit strategies, including internal transactions such as an ESOP or management buyout, to deliver the best outcome for your individual situation.
No. 08 — Where We Work
Why settle for the same old playbook? We are a generalist firm experienced across a broad range of industries — because each client is a unique company with different strengths and competitive advantages, and a firm that plans each engagement with a fresh perspective makes a huge contribution to the success of your M&A and capital market objectives.
Lower middle market companies face a common set of capital-market and transaction-readiness issues. Institutional acquirers and financing sources want an advisor fluent in how they transact. That is precisely the expertise we bring to every engagement.
Manufacturing, distribution and industrial service companies — from third-generation family producers of natural silica sand to engineered systems and aerial and underground fiber cable installation.
Software, digital learning and technology-enabled businesses sold to strategic acquirers across borders — including the Accelebrate–Alpine transaction highlighted in Pandea’s 2022 cross-border deal statistics.
Client accounting services, commercial cleaning and facility services, consulting and managed services — the recurring-revenue engines of the lower middle market, including BMS and AcuityCFO.
Healthcare and healthcare-related service companies, informed by Don’s early career orchestrating North American M&A for a NYSE-listed consolidator of orthopedic and prosthetic service businesses.
Consumer brands and direct-to-consumer businesses — including Instead of Flowers and Do My Own — where brand equity, fulfillment economics and customer concentration shape the buyer conversation.
No. 09 — The People Behind the Plate
Seven years in public accounting built the discipline. After Auburn, Don spent seven years as an auditor with Arthur Andersen and Bennett Thrasher & Co., PC in Atlanta — financial reporting and business consulting across manufacturing, distribution, construction, business services, technology and healthcare. He calls himself a “reformed CPA” — a self-described slow learner who hated being chained behind a desk.
Then he learned to buy companies from the inside. As Business Development Manager at Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. (NYSE) — a public consolidator of orthopedic and prosthetic service businesses — Don oversaw all North American merger and acquisition activity. Later, he built and led the middle-market practice at a Southeastern M&A advisory firm.
In 2010, the entrepreneurial plunge. Newly married to his wife Aury, a teacher, living on salary and savings, Don founded Bravaldo Capital Advisors. It was a three-year period before meaningful revenue — three years to his first M&A advisory transaction with a contingent success fee, and several more before a solid pipeline. He knows what founders sacrifice, because he bet everything on the same dream he now helps owners sell.
“I continue to be fascinated by the endless paths to business success. Helping passionate owners and entrepreneurs successfully complete a transaction that will lead to financial security, be it through a successful merger, acquisition, or shared insight, energizes and inspires me every day.”Don Bravaldo — President & Founder
A sought-after speaker and panelist before attorneys, accountants, wealth managers, investors and corporate leaders. Member of the Georgia Society of CPAs and the AICPA, the Association for Corporate Growth and the Birmingham Alternative Investment Group, the Cobb Chamber and SelectCobb Investor Board, and the Georgia Chamber. English native; elementary Spanish. Active in his Atlanta church with Aury; on the water fly fishing, on the course, or outdoors.
No. 10 — The Conversation
One confidential conversation with a senior advisor — no pitch deck, no pressure. Your numbers, your timeline, and a straight answer about readiness, timing and value. We build these relationships years in advance, and many of our clients were partners long before they were engagements.
Your email client has opened a confidential note addressed to Don Bravaldo at dbravaldo@bc-advisors.com. If it did not, call (404) 857-2221 or email directly — a senior advisor, never a sales team, will respond.
In the owners’ words ◆
“What I did not expect were the moments where each of us received personal support from the BCA team, guiding us through the unexpected emotional ups and downs. That was invaluable — and always appreciated.”
Matthew May · President, AcuityCFO“Bravaldo has been a trusted partner for many years, offering invaluable guidance even before we formally engaged them for this transaction.”
Kenji Kuramoto · Founder & CEO, AcuityCFO“Their expertise, hands-on guidance and unwavering commitment and positivity were invaluable throughout the process.”
Brian Marcus · Founder & President, Building Maintenance Services, Inc.“This deal is a rare win-win-win. It took a great team effort from everyone involved, and BCA helped bring it together.”
Darren Watson · CEO, PSP Canada