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September 17, 2025

by an admin from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management in Portland, OR, USA

Please take a minute to (re)introduce yourself to the Searchfunder community. If you have completed a transaction with a Searcher, feel free to tag them (Shift 6) in your comment so they can say something nice about you here for all to see. Please don't hijack this post if you don't provide legal advice/services. Non-lawyers can follow this (or any post) just by Liking it.
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in Windermere, FL 34786, USA
Hi everyone — I’m Eric Pacifici, co-founder of SMB Law Group LLP. Our firm focuses almost exclusively on buy-side representation for ETA and LMM acquirers, with over $1B in closed ETA/SMB transactions since###-###-#### We’ve grown into a full-service corporate firm that supports buyers not just through the acquisition, but also post-close with general counsel services, integration, and ongoing advisory. A bit about me: * Background at Kirkland & Ellis before launching SMB Law. * Named to Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch and OBJ 40 Under 40. * Co-host of The Business Buying Masterclass newsletter and active on X as redacted We love working with searchers, both traditional and self-funded, and bring a very process-driven, flat-fee approach to deals. If you’re searching or under LOI, happy to be a resource here on Searchfunder. Looking forward to connecting with more of you. — Eric
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Reply by a professional
from University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA
My name is Jake, and for some reason I strongly prefer to work on small deals. My manifesto is below: I've been working on a M&A legal services model for smaller deals (<$1.5MM) that involves more of a streamlined process and limited scope for a significantly reduced fee. I personally think a lot of Buyers doing these Main Street deals are not really being served well by a quasi-LMM process on these smaller deals (although each deal and each buyer is unique, of course). Where a limited scope is called for and opposing counsel is reasonably cooperative and practical, we're seeing some of these deals get done with individualized legal docs for $5-8k on the low end, $10-15k in the middle, and maybe $20-25k on the high end. Reasonable minds may differ on this, of course, but for most searchers buying a (for example) $900k home services business doing $375k in "earnings" with a ~100k seller note, the ROI on paying mid-5 figures for a 40-page APA with dozens of disclosure schedules and robust legal diligence is at least questionable. Nobody will ever litigate that deal anyway. My goal - for those buyers interested - is to run a sort of 80/20 analysis and create a streamlined process that provides a practical, reasonable level of legal protection on smaller deals, while preserving goodwill with the Seller and getting the Buyer behind the wheel of a good business faster. Don't tell anyone, but the real risk mitigation is done at the financial diligence stage anyway. Happy to chat more any time with searchers, other attorneys (I'll take those pesky small deals off your hands - ha!) or other advisors in the space about making things work better for Main Street buyers and sellers.
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