Grey Fox gives owners a reason to engage.

Grey Fox represents private equity firms, larger companies in your industry and family-owned companies seeking acquisitions. We develop relationships with business owners, establish fit and stay involved through the close.

For business owners

We hold the standard
for how companies change hands.

Each buyer is chosen for what it brings to a business and how founders fare after a sale. No introduction is made until the owner’s priorities, and the reason for the partnership, are clear.

Firms we represent

The proof comes after the close.

We represent firms with the experience and resources to build on what you started. Their track records show how a sale can help your business grow, give your people opportunities to advance and support your plans for what comes next.

At the close

Business Services

The first 18 months

Tech-Enabled Services

14 years later

Industrial Services

At the close

Business Services

Every key leader and employee stayed at the partner’s largest acquisition, a company of more than 300 people, supported by a planned integration and communication program. Across its acquisitions, the partner added new revenue streams and improved purchasing, helping the businesses grow and creating opportunities for the people who helped build them.

10%+

Double-digit revenue growth after the close

100+

Internal promotions in a single year

86%

Employee satisfaction

The first 18 months

Tech-Enabled Services

The founders who wanted to keep building gained the backing of a group with 50%+ compounded growth. They continue to run the businesses they started and retain an ownership stake, giving them a role in shaping the next stage of growth and a share in its success.

2.2×

Revenue at each of ten companies within 18 months of acquisition

10 to 15

New customers at each company within 18 months of acquisition

9 of 9

Founders who wanted to stay, stayed

14 years later

Industrial Services

The buyer, a family-owned company founded in 1953, intends to keep the business, giving management a stable owner to plan and invest with for the years ahead. The business has grown with that backing while keeping its own name, its team and its culture.

6×

Profit 14 years after the sale, against the year it was acquired

Acquisitions the family has ever sold

Generations the family has run its own company

Every search starts with the whole market.

Before we call an owner, we study every company the buyer could choose from. In this search, the buyer wanted privately owned convenience-store chains with fuel and oil-change service.

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The whole market
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Every location checked
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Ranked by size and fit
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The conversation

We started with every store location for 226 chains: 92,631 locations from 1,568 sources (company websites and a proprietary location database).

Each location was checked for what it actually offers (a convenience store, fuel, oil change) through web research, a review of on-site evidence and satellite imagery. Confirmed: 90,571 gas stations, 85,625 convenience stores, 2,128 with oil change.

We ranked the chains by size and fit. About 100 were prioritized.

We call an owner only once the fit has held up at every step, and we tell you which buyer it is and why.

The whole market. We started with every store location for 226 chains: 92,631 locations from 1,568 sources (company websites and a proprietary location database).
Every location checked. Each location was checked for what it actually offers (a convenience store, fuel, oil change) through web research, a review of on-site evidence and satellite imagery. Confirmed: 90,571 gas stations, 85,625 convenience stores, 2,128 with oil change.
Ranked by size and fit. We ranked the chains by size and fit. About 100 were prioritized.
The conversation. We call an owner only once the fit has held up at every step, and we tell you which buyer it is and why.

Which buyer

You learn which buyer it is.

Why your company

Why it is interested, established in research before anyone called.

Where you stand

Where your company stands in the buyer’s thinking.

The people behind the work.

Grey Fox is led by Shivam Shirolawala, whose experience includes roles inside Vista Equity Partners and Percheron Capital.