Buying a Business in 2026: The ETA Opportunity (Plus Why Selling Your Business Now Matters)
Owning a business sounds exciting, until you picture the startup phase: finding customers, testing offers, hiring a team, and hoping…
CLARITY BEFORE CAPITAL
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Find out what your business is really worth, and the gap to what it could be. Buy and Build Advisors helps owners buy, grow, and prepare for transition with a clearer view of value, risk, and what to do next.
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Trusted by businesses at every phase of the journey.
Where Are You In Your Journey?
Every owner reaches us at a different point. Use the options below to find the phase that best matches where you are today, then take the next step with support that gives you a clearer view of value, risk, and readiness.
Buying a Business
You don’t have to navigate your next acquisition alone.
We help you understand what you’re really buying when you buy a business and step into ownership with confidence.
Growing Your Own
You want the business to run more smoothly and grow with fewer surprises.
We bring clarity to the numbers and structure to the operations so growth feels manageable.
Selling Your Way
You’re looking ahead to what’s next for the business.
We help you get ready so succession or ownership transition is a deliberate step, not a rushed reaction.
Better decisions start with a clearer view.
The Value Gap Assessment shows what your business may be worth today, where risk may be holding that number back, and what to strengthen first.
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Meet The Team
Get to know the professionals behind Buy and Build Advisors, bringing strategic, financial, legal, and operational experience to every client engagement.
SENIOR PARTNER
David Girault
Business Entities / Contracts
MANAGING PARTNER
Andrew Lamb
Operations, Leadership & Integration
SENIOR PARTNER
Brittany Farrell
Financial Expertise
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Emma Lamb
About Buy and Build Advisors
Buy and Build Advisors is a business advisory firm built for owners who want a trusted thinking partner, not just another specialist who shows up for one project and disappears.
We work with leaders who care deeply about their teams, their customers, and the legacy they are building, offering practical guidance that helps them move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Whether you are growing, evaluating an acquisition, or planning for a future transition, our role is to sit alongside you and help make complex decisions feel more manageable. As a business acquisition advisor and buy and build advisor, we help owners assess opportunities, weigh risks, and choose the next step with a clear view of both the numbers and the people involved.
We believe good advice should reduce noise, not add to it. That is why our work combines strategic perspective with steady partnership, giving owners the kind of support they would expect from an M&A advisor for small business deals, but with broader guidance that extends beyond a single transaction.
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Clarity over complexity
Explaining options in plain language so owners can make confident choices.
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Steady partnership
Showing up consistently, not only at big milestones but in the in-between moments.
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Respect for the owner’s vision
Helping shape decisions without trying to run the business for them.
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Consistent Follow-through:
Staying engaged long enough to see advice turn into real change inside the company.
Testimonials
Your team has been instrumental…
…in guiding us through the due diligence process, F-Reorganization, and ongoing CFO services, ensuring a smooth and well-structured transition for our business.
Your expertise, strategic insights, and hands-on support have provided clarity and confidence throughout the process, allowing us to focus on growth while knowing our financial and structural needs are well managed.
Mike Werner
Matera Builders
Working with Buy And Build Advisors and leveraging DealRoom for our due diligence process has been a game changer.
It gave everyone including buy side, sell side, CPAs, and attorneys one centralized place to track progress, share documents, and stay aligned. We always knew where we were, what was outstanding, and what was coming up next.
The platform helped us move through due diligence efficiently, taking the stress out of this critical phase so we could shift our focus to what really matters: building a strong relationship with the seller and setting the stage for a successful acquisition.
Zack and Jonathan
Business Owners
As we’re going through due diligence for McD Sprinklers of the Palm Beaches, I wanted to say that the process that Buy And Build Advisors is using is excellent!
While it might be a little overwhelming for a small company like McD Sprinklers, it’s extremely thorough and overall very impressive. I’m familiar with this type of support from my Fortune 500 days with firms like Deloitte and EY, I’ve not seen anything like this in my years of Business Brokerage experience down here in South Florida.
Renato Mariani
Vice President, Amerivest Group
Working with Andrew and Brittany has been great.
As new business owners, we’ve faced a lot of challenges on both the operational and financial sides. They genuinely care about our business, our team, and us as owners. I love bouncing ideas off them and appreciate how they push us to think differently.
Most of all, I respect their honesty, they don’t just tell us what we want to hear, but what we need to hear, and that’s been invaluable.
Justin Hertz
Excel Electric
Know what your business is worth before it matters most.
The Value Gap Assessment helps you see what may be shaping that number, where risk may be holding it back, and what to strengthen before a future growth, acquisition, or transition decision.
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