Join our M&A Office Hours
Every week, we host a live office hours session where buyers, builders, and exiting entrepreneurs can bring their most complex questions.
We cover everything from acquisition strategies, due diligence, financing, tax structuring, cash flow management, and valuation optimization.
About Your Hosts
150+
M&A engagements
$200M+
Enterprise value advised
Deep experience in service businesses
Operators who have completed their own acquisitions
Built to move fast under LOI
Buyers
Screen deals with quality
Learn how to screen for better deals from search formation all the way through diligence.
Myth 2
Brokered deals are picked over and not worth pursuing
How buyers misread brokered processes and miss real opportunities.
Myth 3
More deal flow means better outcomes
Why discipline, positioning, and process matter more than volume.
If Your Search Feels Busier Than It Feels Productive...
Many buyers assume the issue is deal flow. Often, it is something else.
You might recognize this if:
You review a high volume of deals but struggle to move any to LOI
You feel reactive to brokers and sellers instead of in control
You second-guess whether you are seeing the right opportunities
Who This Is For
Individual buyers pursuing their first or second acquisition
Searchers and operators actively reviewing deals
Buyers targeting service-based businesses
Entrepreneurs who want to acquire without wasting years
This is not designed for passive investors or people looking for shortcuts.
If You Are Thinking…
“I’ve already tried different sourcing strategies.”
Most buyers experiment with tactics before tightening their evaluation process. More outreach does not fix unclear criteria or weak positioning.
This session focuses on the structure behind consistent deal traction.
“I don’t have a huge network.”
Strong acquisitions are rarely the result of network size alone.
We will show how buyers create leverage without needing to know everyone.
“I feel behind other buyers.”
Most buyers are stuck because they review too many average opportunities.
Progress accelerates when volume stops being the goal and fit becomes the filter.
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What This Session Does
It helps you rethink how deals are evaluated, prioritized, and moved forward.
Better deals do not come from chasing more, they come from operating with intention.
About the Host
Mark Edler, CPA
Partner at Edler Zain
Mark advises buyers and entrepreneurs through acquisitions, operations, and exits. He has supported over 150 M&A engagements and personally completed multiple acquisitions.
His work focuses on helping buyers evaluate risk, understand earnings quality, and move through deals with confidence instead of guesswork.
This webinar is built from real deal work, not theory.
Save Your Seat
This session is live and includes audience Q&A. Seats are capped to keep the discussion practical and focused.
