Providing A Better Exit Option For
Business Owners

Current Issues Selling Your Business & How We Are Better

Over the last 20+ years, you’ve spent a great deal of time, energy & sleepless nights – trying to grow your business. You’ve enjoyed some good years, and experienced some pretty lean ones, too.

Time to consider selling?

You have several options:

1)  Wind Down & Shut the Door – but you wouldn’t get the multiple of cash flow exit that is possible if you plan ahead.

2) Sell to a Traditional Private Equity Firm – but you must consider all the tales of bad experiences dealing with private equity and how their single profit motive will influence them to seek every last dollar from you.

If neither one of these routes appeals to you, there is another option worth considering.

We are entrepreneurs who help solve this problem for owners.  We ourselves are looking for high quality businesses to acquire.  Our difference is that we left traditional private equity so that we could choose how we bought companies – and specifically – so we could bring a human element to a financial transaction that we think is missing.

So if you are interested in finding out more about options to comfortably exit your business and take the millions of dollars you’ve built over the years off the table – we would love to hear from you.  Schedule a call (to the right>>>)

Challenges Business Owners Face

  • The owner waits too long to start planning for exit and thus receives a lower price for his/her business
  • The business was a “lifestyle” business for 20+ years but buyers want a platform that can grow
  • The entrepreneurial spirit that has driven the business to this level is not respected by the buyers who are only looking at financial metrics and ratios. Too dependent on a spreadsheet.
  • A life event happened this year. The owner wants to sell the business this year. But the selling process can take 12+ months and the owner will be expected to stay around 1-3 years to transition.
  • Many unqualified buyers out there who do not have the cash or experience necessary to execute a transaction. Yet they come and waste your time anyway. Deal fatigue is real.

HOW IS OUR PROCESS BETTER?

  • We ourselves are business owners who understand the challenges of running your own business
  • We only partner with family office investors who also understand growing business value over long periods of time. We show up different than PE funds. We are more sophisticated than individual buyers looking to buy themselves into a job
  • We focus 100% on respect and integrity. Those who do business with integrity understand how critical of component that is. We won't have your trust day 1 - but we'll earn it over time. In an environment full of lies - we are honest even when it hurts
  • We know that we are not the right buyer for all businesses - so we partner with 50+ family offices all with their own criteria that could be a better fit. We make those introductions as well.

If You’re Tired Of The Painful Selling Process and Want To 

Discuss A Possible Alternative – Give Us A Call And 

Let’s Discuss How We might Provide A Solution

Schedule A Call

About Us

SPARTAN CAPITAL PARTNERS II, LLC (“Spartan”) is a private investment company run by business owners & entrepreneurs. 

The principals deep experience investing in and growing private businesses under $20 million in revenue.  The principles of Spartan Capital have invested and arranged over one hundred of million dollars in capital to finance their companies.

We are not spreadsheet guys who think we know everything.  We left billion dollar private equity funds because we saw a different model.  Now, we focus on identifying entrepreneurs who are honest and hard working inside of businesses we would like to grow.  Our service to these entrepreneurs is to help them liquidate and diversify the millions of dollars trapped in their business.  These millions do not trade on a stock exchange and often cannot be passed onto heirs.   We bring that liquidity in order for the entrepreneur to solidify the financial future of his/her family while still having their desired impact on the business that they built over years. We will be transparent, we will be fun, we will be quick.  Those are our promises to you.  

We are entrepreneurs ourselves.  We chose “business acquisition” as our focus.  We need you as much as you need us – which is why our Letters of Intent (LOIs) name you as “Partner” and not “Seller”.

If you are looking for the right PARTNER, you’ve found it here.

Meet our team

Managing Partner

Elliott E. Holland

Mr. Holland is a Parter at Spartan Capital Partners. Since 2009, Mr. Holland has worked for and with the nation’s best independent business buyers. The firms he has worked for have raised over $4.7 Billion and successfully bought and scaled over 57 private, primarily owner-operated businesses. Before entering the buyout world, Mr. Holland was an entrepreneur running his own company where he successfully negotiated with leading investors including Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners, HLM Venture Partners, Merrick Ventures, and Sandbox Industries. He has experience on both sides of the table – on the entrepreneurial side raising capital and the investor side making prudent decisions with capital. He is one of the few deal guys with deep experience doing both.

Elliott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Bachelor of Science degree from Morehouse College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Managing Partner

Matthew Holland

Mr. Matthew Holland is a Partner at Spartan Capital Partners.  Since 2012 Mr. Holland has led marketing and business development for Spartan, sourcing hundreds of opportunities.  His specialty is working with retiring Baby Boomers who are considering selling their businesses in order to retire.  Before entering the buyout world, Mr. Holland advised owner-operated businesses on profit improvement strategies with Peachtree Strategy Partners.  He worked with companies as large as Fortune 500 and small as $5 – $10 million in revenue.  All the time focusing on maximizing cash flow to shareholders.

Matthew holds a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Michigan’s Ross Business School.  He lives in Atlanta, GA.

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