“VR” means Valued Representation, which exemplifies the services we provide and the services our clients deserve.
VR Business Brokers of St. Louis offers specialized services to business owners and entrepreneurs who are seeking to start, grow, buy, or sell a business in the small ($250k to $5M) to mid-market ($5M to $20M) ranges.
Our local office represents business owners throughout the Greater St. Louis area and the regional Mid-West. Additionally, VR Business Brokers has 45 office locations across 22 states in the U.S. with 2 offices in Alberta, Canada; and 1 office in “The City of the Island Hills”- Santiago, Chile.
Business brokerage services can be summarized into one of the following categories:
While there may be some underlying overlap in the way those services are delivered, they each require an expert touch to be managed effectively. We will represent your interests and your goals with utmost respect, professionalism, and confidentiality throughout the buying and selling process.
Every VR Business Broker offers the following services:
- Seller Representation to sell a business.
- Buyer Representation to buy a business.
- Business Valuations to determine the current market value of a business.
- Mergers & Acquisitions services for industry and/or marketplace positioning.
Our St. Louis office provides the same services as well as the following concierge business brokerage services:
- Selling a Business
- Buying a Business
- Valuing a Business
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
- EB-5 and Visa Entrepreneur Programs
- New and Existing Franchise Sales
- Starting a Business
- Growing a Business
- Exit Strategy Planning
- Strategic Business Consulting
- Business Financing & SBA Consulting
- Business Plan Development
Below you find a sampling of businesses we represent for sale. We protect the confidentiality of all our clients, therefore, information here is limited. But if you would like to get more information about a particular business, our private listings, or our business brokerage services, then please give us a call!
Each VR Business Broker office is independently owned and operated.
This office is owned by Jeff Kalil under Gateway St. Louis Business Group, a Missouri LLC, dba VR Gateway Business Brokers of St. Louis, which is a proud veteran owned business.
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What a Business Broker in St. Louis Should Do for You
A business broker’s job is to get your business sold, confidentially, at the best achievable price and terms, while you keep running it. In practice that means valuing the business correctly, packaging it so buyers understand what they’re getting, marketing it without revealing your identity, qualifying buyers so you never waste a Saturday with a tire-kicker, negotiating price and structure, and shepherding the deal through financing and due diligence to closing. Roughly half of accepted offers in this industry fall apart before closing. A broker earns their fee in the half that don’t.
Why St. Louis Owners Choose VR
Three things separate this office from other business brokers in St. Louis. First, credentials you can verify: Business Certified Appraiser (BCA), Certified Merger & Acquisition Professional, Certified Exit Planning Advisor. Most brokerages will not put their certifications, or even their brokers’ names, on their website. Ours are on every page. Second, valuation-first discipline: every listing is priced from a certified appraisal, because unrealistic pricing is the number one deal killer in this industry, and we publish our valuation pricing, which no other firm in this market does. Third, our fee structure: no minimums, no retainers, no listing or marketing fees, no termination penalties. We are paid when your business sells, and not before.
From Main Street to the Middle Market
We represent everything from single-location Main Street businesses to companies in the $1 million to $20 million range that are too large for a typical Main Street broker and too small for the investment banks. For those larger deals we run a confidential M&A process: recast financials, targeted outreach to strategic buyers, private equity groups, and search funds, and transaction-grade valuation and Quality of Earnings support. Backed by the VR network, which has sold more businesses in the world than anyone.
Serving the Entire Metro
We work with owners across the region: St. Louis City and County, St. Charles County, Jefferson County, and the Metro East communities of Edwardsville, Belleville, and beyond. Veteran-owned, headquartered in Sunset Hills, and in the market every day.
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