About Stillwater Capital

Experience has shown us that trust, integrity and results are everything.

Stillwater Capital is one of North America’s leading mid-market M&A advisors. Since 2001, we have completed over 100 transactions. We are passionate about building outstanding companies through high-quality acquisition programs and equally passionate about obtaining great results for clients who decide to divest some or all of their business.

Rooted in fairness, intellectual rigour and compassion for people, we hold ourselves to a higher standard of ethics. We help our clients achieve superior outcomes by providing thoughtful, caring advice while acting with honour and integrity.

While we serve clients across Canada and the USA, over 30% of our transactions involve an international counterparty.

As members of the world’s premier professional advisory group, Geneva Capital Group, we have reached into every country and major city in the world, from Toronto to Beijing, Washington to Moscow, Paris to Adelaide. With over 30,000 of the world’s best legal, accounting and M&A professionals in our group, located in over 800 offices in 126 countries, we bring unequalled perspective and insights to every client we serve.

Our Team

Each member of our team provides the highest standard of professional service to help you successfully achieve your objectives.

Latest Insights

Choose Well

Steps to Selling your Business Part 38 As we bring this exploration of the process of selling your business to an end, I want to...

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The Purchase Agreement

Steps to Selling your Business Part 37 The purchase agreement is the kingpin of the sale process—a binding contract that will...

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Representations, Warranties, and Indemnifications

Steps to Selling your Business Part 36 A critical section of the Purchase Agreement outlines the representations, warranties, and...

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From Letter of Intent to Purchase Agreement

Steps to Selling your Business Part 35 The Closing Phase moves you from a completed Letter of Intent (LOI) through Due Diligence...

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Chairman’s Letter – June 2022

Covid 19 - What does 2 years of data show us now In May 2020, we published a summary of our study on “the data behind Covid-19” At that...

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Negotiating Around Risk

Steps to Selling your Business Part 34 In a previous post, I explained that a great Advisor's mission is to get the best deal for...

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From Preparation To Outreach

If you’ve read Stillwater’s previous series on the Steps to Selling Your Business, you’ll know that the three-step process is the same for sellers and buyers. 1: THE PREPARATORY STAGE 2: THE MARKET OUTREACH STAGE 3: CLOSING Those who read that series will also know that, for the seller, the preparatory phase is a daunting […]

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Who Is Your Champion?

One guarantee that comes with choosing Stillwater Capital as your M&A Advisors: you will have astonishingly organized people working on your behalf. Some degree of organizational ability is necessary for anyone handling the myriad of moving parts involved in a successful acquisition, but at Stillwater, we look for the highest level of skill in everyone […]

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Don’t Bet The Farm

The overall goal of the Preparatory Stage of the 3-step acquisition process is to get your business ready to face the market, and to develop a clear idea of what you’re looking for. It’s demanding, and requires a lot of precise communication and analysis, but in some ways it’s also the most fluid step in […]

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Public or Private

In my last post, I discussed the high-value Stillwater places on highly adaptable people who can make smart decisions in real time. I call people like that situationally fluid. This skill set gives an advisor the power to change direction and tactics on a dime, to pivot as a situation demands. People who excel at […]

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Preparing For Scrutiny

So far, in this series, I’ve largely focused on the preliminary preparations you and your company can make before the formal process begins. I want to re-emphasize here that the most important preliminary step you can take is choosing the right M&A Advisors. They are a key factor in the transaction’s quality and the relative […]

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On Post-Deal Integration

In this post, I want to highlight a critical and often overlooked piece from the very end of the acquisition process that needs to be carefully considered from the beginning—Post-Deal Integration. When the ink has dried, and the keys are in your hand, how will you integrate the new business into the daily reality of […]

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