Oregon Business Brokers

Sell Your Oregon Business for What It’s Actually Worth

If you own an Oregon business and you’re thinking about selling, you want three things: a real number, a discreet process, and a broker who works for you, not the buyer. That’s the job.

We’ve sold businesses in Portland, Bend, Eugene, Salem, the Coast, and Eastern Oregon. We know these markets because we’ve closed in them.

No dual agency, no buyer clients. We get paid on a success fee when you close, not on a retainer while a listing sits. The buyer list comes from a proprietary database of 26,000+ Oregon businesses: PE firms running roll-ups in your sector, strategic acquirers expanding into the Pacific Northwest, and individuals backed by search funds or private capital. See how we find buyers and why we only represent sellers.

The first step is a free, confidential evaluation. You get an honest look at value, likely buyers, and whether we’re a fit. We turn down about 85% of inquiries, because we’d rather do fewer deals well than take everything that calls. From there we run the full process so you can keep running the company while we sell it.

What Our Market Intelligence Means for Your Sale

Our proprietary research database tracks more than 26,000 Oregon businesses. Of those, more than 13,000 fall in Arx’s core range of $1M to $25M in revenue across 19 M&A-aligned sectors.

Why does that matter to you? Because we use this data to identify exactly which buyers are acquiring in your industry and your market. When an HVAC roll-up firm closes a deal in Salem, we know about it. When a dental practice consolidator expands into Southern Oregon, it shows up in our research. That’s how we build targeted buyer lists that go far beyond posting a listing and hoping someone calls.

Oregon’s Seven Markets - Each With Its Own Deal Dynamics

Portland dominates the conversation, but Oregon’s secondary markets aren’t small. They’re surprisingly deep - and every one of them is underserved by legacy brokers who treat anything outside Portland as an afterthought.

Business counts from Arx proprietary research database. “M&A Targets” reflects businesses in our 19 tracked sectors with $1-25M in estimated revenue, using industry-specific wage-to-revenue ratios from the 2022 U.S. Economic Census.

If You Own One of These Businesses, Buyers Are Looking for You

The industry you’re in determines who your buyers are, how competitive the process gets, and what kind of multiple you can expect. We track 19 M&A-aligned sectors across Oregon - here’s where the deal activity is concentrated.

Sectors With the Hottest Buyer Demand

These are the industries where PE firms, consolidators, and strategic acquirers are most actively competing for deals right now.

Strong Deal Flow Sectors

Active acquisition markets with established buyer pools and solid multiples.

Avg employees and revenue reflect businesses in Arx’s $1-25M target range. Revenue estimates use industry-specific wage-to-revenue ratios from the 2022 U.S. Economic Census.

If you own a home services or trades business - HVAC, plumbing, electrical, pest control, roofing, landscaping - you’re in the single hottest acquisition category in the country right now. PE-backed roll-up firms are buying across Oregon, and they’ll pay competitive multiples for companies with strong management and recurring service contracts. Between residential trades and commercial contractors, there are over 2,843 Oregon businesses in specialty trades alone. The average home services company in our range has 21 employees and generates $4.2M in revenue. Most of these owners have no idea these buyers exist.

If you run a healthcare practice - dental, behavioral health, specialty care, urgent care - consolidators are following Oregon’s population growth into every secondary market. DSOs, behavioral health platforms, and home health consolidators are all active statewide. Healthcare is Oregon’s largest sector by business count at 3,240. Senior care is a standout - these businesses average 58 employees and $4.3M in revenue, and the demographics driving demand aren’t slowing down.

If you own a manufacturing or distribution business - these are some of the largest and most established businesses in Oregon. Distribution companies in our range average $7.5M in revenue - the highest of any sector. Manufacturers average $5.6M with 20 employees. These operations attract strategic acquirers looking for West Coast production and logistics capability. Oregon’s food and beverage sector is especially active at $4.8M average revenue - craft breweries, specialty food producers, and regional distributors are drawing national buyer interest.

If you’re in technology or professional services - MSPs, cybersecurity firms, IT consultancies, SaaS companies, and agencies command premium valuations. Tech-enabled services average $4.7M in revenue with 20 employees, and Oregon’s Portland-based tech ecosystem creates a natural buyer pipeline. Business services firms - legal, accounting, staffing, consulting, agencies - represent Oregon’s largest sector at 3,535 businesses. Knowledge-based companies with recurring revenue attract buyers from PE platforms to strategic acquirers building services portfolios.

If you’re in environmental services, auto services, or transportation - these sectors fly under the radar but have real deal flow. Environmental services companies average $5.1M in revenue with 25 employees, benefiting from regulatory tailwinds. Auto collision repair is consolidating nationally. And transportation companies averaging $4.5M with 23 employees are strategic targets for logistics platforms expanding their Pacific Northwest footprint.

What drives deals in Portland looks different from Medford, which looks different from Bend. Each of our city pages breaks down the local industry mix in detail.

Who’s Buying Oregon Businesses Right Now

Knowing who’s buying matters as much as knowing what your business is worth. The right buyer match can mean the difference between a fair offer and a premium one.

Independent buyers - and there are a lot of them. Oregon’s buyer pool skews heavily toward individuals. Some are self-funded searchers who’ve raised capital to acquire a single business. Some are funded through search funds or independent sponsor vehicles. But many - and this is distinctive to Oregon - are tech industry refugees. Former executives and senior leaders from Intel, Nike, Amazon, and the broader Silicon Forest ecosystem who’ve decided they’d rather run their own company than take another corporate role. They’re smart, well-capitalized, and often willing to pay a premium for the right business because they’re buying a career, not just an investment. We see this buyer type across every Oregon market, but it’s especially concentrated in Portland and Bend.

Out-of-state buyers, especially from California. Oregon’s lack of a sales tax, lower operating costs, and quality of life make it a magnet for California business owners and investors. This is especially pronounced in Southern Oregon, where I-5 makes Medford accessible from the Bay Area and Sacramento.

Private equity firms targeting roll-ups. PE-backed consolidators are actively acquiring trades businesses, healthcare practices, and professional services firms throughout Oregon. Portland sees the most PE activity, but these buyers are looking statewide.

Strategic acquirers expanding their PNW footprint. Regional and national companies growing through acquisition rather than organic buildout. Distribution, manufacturing, and professional services see the most strategic activity.

Our active buyer outreach targets all of these buyer types. We don’t wait for them to find your listing - we go find them.

What This Looks Like in Practice

A husband-and-wife team spent 14 years building a biotech firm in Oregon - creating tools that researchers use to discover disease cures. When they decided to retire, a simple financial valuation would have put a number on the business and called it a day.

We didn’t do that. Our research identified strategic value their financials alone couldn’t capture - intellectual property, customer relationships, and market position that specific acquirers would pay a premium for. We ran a global auction, generated multiple competing offers, and closed a deal that reflected the full value of what they’d built. The buyer wasn’t just the highest bidder - it was an acquirer who genuinely honored their legacy.

That’s what a competitive bid process looks like when it’s backed by real market intelligence. No other Oregon firm has the data to identify strategic acquirers this precisely, or the methodology to create genuine competition among them. Every Oregon deal we take on gets this level of research, targeting, and competitive process.

Your Next Step

Whether you’re in Portland, Bend, Eugene, Salem, Medford, the Oregon Coast, or Eastern Oregon, your name stays off the market until you decide otherwise.

We run a confidential process until you go live with qualified buyers under NDA. A typical sale takes 6-9 months. We’re based in Bend and Lake Oswego, and we work statewide.

If you’re not ready for a conversation yet, take the Exit Score (about 3 minutes) or grab the exit-planning checklist. Our guide to selling a business and business valuation guide are there too. The free evaluation (three price points, about 10 business days once documents are in) starts from the conversation.

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