A Growing Market. A Need for Clear Direction.

Colorado’s business landscape has shifted rapidly — with growing mid-market companies, active investors, and strong interest across technology, energy, consumer products, logistics, and healthcare.
But with growth comes complexity: navigating financial choices, identifying the right partners, and executing transactions can be challenging without seasoned guidance.

We serve as your strategic partner — helping you evaluate options, structure deals, and move forward with confidence.

What We Solve

Before discussing services, we begin with the real challenges companies face across Colorado:

Difficulty accessing the right investors or buyers

Limited clarity on valuation or deal timing

Uncertain capital needs as the business scales

Internal resources stretched thin during transactions

Limited insight into market expectations or deal comps

Our advisory work is built to solve these issues — with clear strategy and disciplined execution.

Preparation

We help you define the objective — raising capital, selling the company, acquiring another business, or restructuring — and ensure your business is positioned to achieve it. This includes valuation insight, financial review, readiness planning, and outlining your strategic options.

Exit- or growth-readiness assessments

Financial and operational diagnostics

Strategic scenario planning

Strategy

With clear goals in place, we design the optimal transaction or capital strategy tailored to your business model, sector dynamics, and timing.

Capital-structure modeling

Deal-structure recommendations

Target or acquirer identification

Timing, valuation, and positioning strategy

Execution

We convert strategy into action — managing the full process required to secure the right investors, buyers, lenders, or acquisition targets.

Investor and buyer outreach

Negotiation and term-sheet support

Due-diligence coordination

Closing and final transaction management

Location Details

Here When You Need Us

Advisors available in multiple regions to support your goals.

Headquarters —

7525 SE 24th Street, Suite 630 Mercer Island, WA 98040

Phone —

(479) 391 2529

The Denver Advantage

Built for Colorado Companies: We understand the region’s industries, deal dynamics, and investor expectations — from Denver’s tech ecosystem to Boulder’s innovation hubs and Colorado Springs’ industrial sector.

Access to Both Local & National Capital Providers: You benefit from a dual network: deep local relationships + broad institutional access across private equity, lenders, strategics and family offices.

Boutique-Level Attention with Institutional Capabilities: Compact senior-led teams, no junior handoffs, and hands-on involvement from start to finish.

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Who We Work With

Our Denver practice supports a wide range of clients, including founder-led and mid-market businesses preparing for growth or planning a future exit. We work with companies seeking capital to scale, organizations pursuing strategic acquisitions, and firms navigating financial pressure or restructuring. We also partner with investors looking for opportunities across Colorado’s fast-growing sectors.

Understand Your Goals

We begin with clarity — what you're aiming to achieve and what constraints you face.

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Build Your Strategic Options

We present 2–3 clear, realistic paths with timelines, pros/cons and value impact.

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Execute the Chosen Path

We run outreach, negotiations, diligence and closing — end-to-end.

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Post-Deal Support

As needed, we continue to support integration, recapitalization, or future acquisitions.

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We strive to help owners of middle-market companies realize their exit and growth strategies by providing value-added transaction advisory services.

Access to the Right Buyers, Investors, and Partners

We maintain strong relationships across strategic buyers, private equity groups, family offices, and international investors.

This network enables us to connect clients with the right counterparty — not just any counterparty — ensuring better fit, smoother negotiations, and stronger valuation outcomes.

Focused on Your Legacy and Long-Term Value

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We help protect what you’ve built, preserve your vision, and position your organization for continued growth under new ownership or direction.

The Result

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A clear, disciplined, strategic process — driven by a team that is fully invested in the outcome.

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Our Leadership

Robert Hild

Chairman & CEO

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Curtis Case

Co-founder & Managing Director

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Michael Vanderslice

Managing Director

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John Norton

Managing Director

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Matthew Latimer

Managing Director & General Counsel

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Trevor Hill

Managing Director

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Chris Sheppard

Managing Director

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Stephen Q. Spencer

Managing Director

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Jeff Jones

Managing Director

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Regan Sander

Managing Director

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Nick Gunn

Managing Director

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Katie Hecox

Director of Talent Acquisition

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Kevin Outcalt

Managing Director

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Jeff Zanardi

Managing Director

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Madison Brown

Managing Director

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Ivan Trindev

Vice President

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Blake Ponuick

Managing Director

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Victor Koosh

Managing Director

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Paul Humphreys

Managing Director

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Brad Bodenman

Managing Director

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Joe Smith

Managing Director

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Curt Jacey

Managing Director

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Kenneth H. Johnson

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Neil Paschall

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Tami Fratis

Managing Director

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Ron Huff

Managing Director

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Mary Kate Bierly

Marketing Director

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Devesh Sharma

Managing Director

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George E. Gifford

Senior Advisor

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Zack Hsieh

Associate

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Garrison Glisson

Associate

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Sara Morgan

Business Development Coordinator

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Daniel Nicklaus

Managing Director

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David Pickard

Managing Director

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Why Choose MergersandAcquisitions.net for M&A Advisory Services?

We specialize in providing expert mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to businesses looking to scale, diversify, or realign their growth strategies. With a proven track record in guiding both acquiring and target companies through each stage of the M&A process, we understand the intricacies involved in structuring deals that maximize value and create sustainable growth.

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Focused & Confidential
We manage each engagement with discretion and precision, minimizing disruption while maximizing buyer interest, competitive tension, and deal outcomes.
Deep Market Expertise
With decades of deal-making experience across industries, we bring sharp market insight and rigorous analysis to every transaction, helping you make confident decisions.
Aligned Incentives
Our compensation structure ensures our goals are tied to your outcomes—when you succeed, we succeed—creating a partnership built on performance, accountability and trust.
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We provide tailored M&A, capital raising, and corporate finance solutions designed to align with your long-term business objectives and maximize value at every stage.
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