If you own a business in Charlotte and you're starting to think about the future — growing it, valuing it, or eventually selling it — you'll eventually run into two very different professionals with confusingly similar-sounding jobs: the financial advisor and the business broker. Search for either term in Charlotte and you'll get pages of results. Almost none of them will tell you which one you actually need. Here's the short answer: if your business is worth somewhere between $10 million and $100 million, there's a good chance neither one, on their own, is built for what you're trying to do. Read more here - redacted What Hillandale Advisors Does Instead Hillandale Advisors is a Charlotte-based M&A advisory and family office built specifically for this gap: owners of $redactedmillion enterprise value businesses across North and South Carolina. We work across the full arc of ownership, not just the exit. Scale. Before you sell, we help you raise growth equity to fund expansion, acquisitions, or a partial recapitalization — so you're selling from a position of strength, not urgency. Value. We build a defensible valuation grounded in real market comparables and buyer behavior, not a generic multiple pulled off a spreadsheet — the same rigor a private equity buyer will apply in diligence, done in advance, on your side. Sell. When you're ready, we run a confidential, competitive sale process — identifying the right buyer universe among private equity groups and strategic acquirers, managing the process end to end, and negotiating the deal itself. Unlike a financial advisor, we work on the business, not just your personal portfolio. Unlike a Main Street business broker, we're built for $redactedmillion EV deals — competitive processes, institutional buyers, and diligence that can withstand real scrutiny. And unlike either, we've actually run businesses ourselves: Hillandale's family office owns and operates portfolio companies across the Carolinas today, bringing 20+ years of operating and investing experience to every valuation and every negotiation — not just a finance background. Get a confidential valuation conversation with Hillandale Advisors → redacted