Sell-Side Advisory · Alberta & Canada

Thinking About Selling Your Business?

Xito Capital Partners represents business owners through the sale of their company — from valuation and buyer-ready financial packaging through to a confidential, competitive close.

Selling a business is a different discipline than raising growth capital. We run a structured sell-side process built around your timeline, your confidentiality, and getting full value for what you've built.

$2M–$50M+Business value range
1–24 MonthsTypical exit preparation window
100%Confidential, NDA-protected process
Not Just Capital Raising

Selling your business is its own discipline.

Xito Capital Partners is often searched for growth capital and lending — but a large part of our practice is representing owners on the other side of the table: getting your business ready for sale, then selling it well.

Valuation & Positioning

An honest, defensible view of what your business is worth today, and what specifically would move that number before you go to market.

Buyer-Ready Packaging

Sell-side Quality of Earnings review, normalized financials, and documentation built to withstand real buyer diligence — not just look presentable.

Confidential Buyer Process

We manage outreach, buyer screening, and negotiation under NDA, so your employees, customers, and competitors don't hear about a sale before you're ready.

Start Here

Not sure where to begin? Take the free score first.

Most sell-side engagements start with the same 5–10 minute self-assessment used across Xito Capital — no documents required, and it flags exactly what a buyer would raise first.

Free · 5 Minutes

Capital Readiness Score

Answer a short set of questions across financial, debt, liquidity, documentation, and transaction readiness. See exactly what's holding your sale price back.

Take the Free Score →
$495 · Fast Turnaround

Capital Snapshot Report

A focused, professionally prepared snapshot of your financial position — a credible first document for early buyer or lender conversations.

See the Capital Snapshot →
Built for Sellers

Succession & Exit Readiness Monitor

Ongoing exit-readiness tracking for owners planning to sell in the next 1–24 months — see the full product line and pricing.

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How We Help You Sell

Three disciplines, one accountable team.

Whether you're exploring a sale, actively preparing, or already talking to a buyer, we plug in at the stage you're at.

01

Exit & Succession Planning

A realistic timeline and path — family succession, management buyout, or third-party sale — built around your goals, not a generic playbook.

  • Business valuation & readiness diagnostic
  • Family succession & management buyout structuring
  • 1–24 month exit preparation roadmap
02

Sell-Side Quality of Earnings

Normalize your financials and document your addbacks before a buyer's diligence team finds the gaps — the single biggest driver of a repriced or collapsed deal.

  • EBITDA normalization & addback documentation
  • Working capital peg analysis
  • Related-party & concentration cleanup
03

Confidential Sale Process

Direct, partner-led buyer outreach and negotiation — strategic acquirers, private equity, or individual buyers — run under NDA from first contact to close.

  • Confidential buyer outreach & screening
  • Offer negotiation & deal structuring
  • Diligence & closing support
The Xito Sell-Side Process

From readiness diagnostic to close.

1

Readiness Diagnostic

Free Capital Readiness Score plus a valuation baseline, so you know what you're working with before anything goes to market.

2

Buyer-Ready Packaging

Sell-side QoE, normalized financials, and a materials package built to survive real diligence, not just first impressions.

3

Confidential Market Process

Structured, NDA-protected buyer outreach and negotiation, run by a partner from first call through closing.

Representative Mandate

$18.5M asset-backed refinance & buy-side advisory, closed in 42 days.

An Alberta-based mid-market industrial logistics company needed a sell-side Quality of Earnings review to support a strategic acquisition process, while a related financing leg required fast, unencumbered closing capital.

$1.2MNormalized EBITDA uncovered via sell-side QoE
$12.5MSenior debt secured via asset-backed placement
42 DaysTotal structured process, diagnostic to close
0%Equity diluted

The Combined Strategy

Sell-Side Financial Diagnostics & QoE: A targeted Quality of Earnings assessment uncovered $1.2M in normalized, add-back EBITDA the buyer's diligence team would otherwise have flagged mid-process.

Confidential Process Management: Buyer outreach and negotiation ran entirely under NDA, alongside a parallel asset-backed placement to bridge the closing.

Representative example built for illustration purposes; details anonymized to protect client confidentiality.

Who We Work With

Founder-led and family businesses, not marketplace listings.

We're not a business-for-sale marketplace or listing site — we're a partner-led advisory team representing one seller at a time, with your confidentiality and outcome as the only priority.

If you're comparing us to a business broker: brokers typically list and market a business to a wide, often anonymous buyer pool. We run a targeted, confidential process — usually a smaller number of well-qualified buyers, sourced and vetted directly by a partner.

Discuss Selling Your Business

Is This You?

  • Considering a sale in the next 1–24 months and want an honest valuation baseline first.
  • Approached by a buyer already and want representation before you respond.
  • Planning succession to family or management and need the financial structure to support it.
  • Comparing options between a third-party sale, an MBO, or family succession.
Frequently Asked Questions

What business owners ask us first.

Does Xito Capital only do capital raising, or do you also help sell businesses?+

Both. Growth capital and lending are one side of our practice — representing business owners through a sale, succession, or exit is the other, and often the larger engagement. This page covers our sell-side work specifically.

I haven't decided to sell yet — can you still help?+

Yes. Most engagements start with the free Capital Readiness Score or a valuation conversation, months or years before an owner is ready to go to market. Early preparation is what protects your price later.

How is this different from listing with a business broker?+

A broker typically markets your business broadly, often to an anonymous pool of buyers. We run a smaller, confidential, partner-led process — targeted buyer outreach under NDA, with a managing partner involved from first call to close.

What size businesses do you represent?+

We focus on the mid-market: founder-led and family businesses generally valued from $2,000,000 to $50,000,000+, across Alberta and Canada.

Is my information kept confidential?+

Yes. All submissions are covered by our Mutual NDA and handled under strict confidentiality protocols — see our Privacy Policy. Confidentiality is especially critical in a sale process, where early disclosure can unsettle employees or customers.

Confidential Seller Intake

Start a confidential conversation about selling.

This form goes directly to a managing partner — not a call center. We'll follow up within one business day to discuss your timeline and next steps.

Prefer to talk first? Call our Calgary desk directly.

403-827-1014

🔒 All submissions are protected under our Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement and applicable confidentiality protocols.