Franchise Services

Franchise Mergers and Acquisitions can be an exciting, yet daunting, transition for your business. Franchise M&A can take over 300 hours. Unbridled Capital will be there with you, working tirelessly at every step.

Our hallmark service is sell-side M&A. We have access to thousands of buyers, investors, new operators, and private equity firms that are seeking to acquire myriad franchise companies. Our scope is not limited by deal size; for the right assignment, we will represent individual owners or the largest franchisees in the country. We typically target brands that have large regional or national footprints.

Buy-side advisory services are incredibly valuable when designed properly. They are also badly administered because they are often poorly constructed, and the tenacity or practicality of the client is not properly evaluated beforehand. For these reasons, the success rate of buy-side advisory is generally low, and many franchisees unfortunately do not ascribe much value to these services.

Value resides at the very core of everything we do at Unbridled Capital, whether we are helping clients in sell-side advisory, debt placement, capital raising, buy-side advisory, or refranchising. We are the industry’s unparalleled experts in assessing the valuation of any franchise, most notably for a sell-side advisory process.

Unbridled Capital specializes in providing debt placement services for franchisees across all sectors of the franchise industry. Through our M&A practice, we draw from our deep relationships with lenders to offer franchisees an easy way to access dozens of lenders in one efficient, timesaving, value-enhancing process. Lenders compete to loan money to our clients, and the outcome is generally much stronger than what a franchisee could do on their own.

Your financing needs may change over time as your business grows and evolves. Capitalizing a franchise company is not a one-approach-fits-all situation. Franchise owners have unique capital needs; sometimes they want access to the broadest market possible for the best loan at the most competitive rates, terms, and fees. Others want equity partners to help capitalize their business in new ways or to position for growth. Our Unbridled Capital team of experts are ready to help you ask the right questions and land on the best choice for you.

Selling corporate stores to franchisees is a delicate art. Most franchisors do not design the right refranchising plan; therefore, the type of franchisee they attract is sub-optimal, undercapitalized, slow-growth oriented, or antagonistic. All the while, these processes do not result in the highest value when considering the lifelong worth of finding a franchisee to operate and grow a corporate market.