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 120 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
July 26, 2022 // Divestitures
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
July 13, 2022 // Divestitures
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
June 29, 2022 // Divestitures
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
June 7, 2022 // Divestitures
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
June 1, 2022 // General
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
May 24, 2022 // Divestitures
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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Insights
Keeping Pace:Stacking Multiple Prospects
When Market Outreach begins in earnest, there’s a careful juggling act required to keep things moving well. In the previous post, I talked about the step-by-step process we go through in our initial contacts with a prospective client. But remember—at the outset of the Market Outreach phase your team of M&A Advisors will have assembled […]
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The Mechanics of Market Outreach
During the Market Outreach phase, the three-stage process of buying a business can feel like a school dance in the 1980s—young men clumped together along one wall, young ladies arranged on the opposite side, neither side willing to take the first step. The goal is to get any of them to meet in the middle. […]
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Lessons From Experienced Buyers
In a previous post, I mentioned that a structured series of smaller acquisitions over time is often a wiser course of action than one larger, splashy purchase. An acquisition strategy built in this way has a lot of powerful advantages in growing your business over the long term, but today I want to talk about […]
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The Creative Approach
In the previous post in this series, I took a moment to warn against over-relying on Google and other public search engines in conducting market research. I suggest using the same caution regarding the industry use of paid databases. Like every other M&A firm, Stillwater sometimes uses paid databases—they offer enormous swaths of information on […]
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The Big Funnel
We start the Market Outreach Stage of the acquisition process with a list of prospects that in some way fit what you’re looking for. Your Advisors have done their work in the preparatory phase and have developed a good picture of you and your company—your acquisitional capabilities, what you’re looking for, and an idea of […]
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On Collaboration
Once the acquisition process begins, you’ll quickly discover that your new team of M&A Advisors are suddenly very present in the life of your company. Contact is almost daily; this team of recent strangers is asking questions and looking for information, and meetings are called. For the duration of the process, your advisors are just […]
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