About Candor Advisors
Kirk Michie, the founder of Candor Advisors, is among the nation’s leading financial experts and has successfully set himself apart in the industry by creating a unique approach for private company founders looking to sell their businesses.
He identifies the “why” behind their desire to sell and creates a custom approach for the transaction or sale, whether that be developing a successor, facilitating an internal sale to employees or management, or structuring an external sale to a strategic or financial buyer.
Over the past 30 years, Kirk has developed a unique and varied background, leading him to frequent guest speaking roles at industry events and entrepreneur-focused forums. Throughout his career, he has raised over $1B in capital, has been involved with nearly 60 purchase or sale transactions, and most recently, acted as sole financial advisor to the founders of Dosatron International in their $105mm sale to the Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) in October 2022.
“Talk to Kirk First” has become the word-of-mouth line that sparked Candor Advisors’ success in advising entrepreneurs, business owners, and high net worth families to better outcomes.
Among these notable achievements, Kirk has filled the roles of Guru, Guide, and Gladiator among colleagues and clients, and provides weekly insights to more than 20k private company founders.Candor Advisors Practice Areas
Transaction Advisory Services
Value Enhancement Consulting
Capital and Transition Planning Solutions
Candor Advisors Focus On M&A
Over the course of the past 3+ years, Candor Advisors is proud to have worked with successful founders in providing transaction advisory and value enhancement services across a broad spectrum of types, sizes, and stages of businesses. From industrial coatings to healthcare staffing, cannabis services to genomics tools, recycling services and appliance manufacturing, and so many businesses in between.
Company sizes have ranged from $10mm of enterprise value to over $300mm, and while we’re proud of the $750mm of deals we’ve done in just the past 12 months, we’re even more proud of the nearly $500mm of value we’ve enhanced or unlocked, and the dozens of bad buyers that we’ve chased away.
Even more, the legacies we’ve helped facilitate for a wonderful group of founders.
Our business has blossomed in other ways too, including the Candor Advisors National Network (CANN), with more than 50 professional service providers and adjacent deal professionals. CANN includes other investment banks, corporate and M&A lawyers, transactional tax, and tax compliance experts, outsourced financial and accounting resources, plus consultants, coaches, and other advisors. No matter what the founder needs may be, if we’re not the right resource, there’s a CANN firm that’ll be just the right fit!Candor Advisors Recent Deals
Dosatron
MyChem
Complete Recycling
Luxx Lighting
NewairCandor Advisors Industries
Manufacturing
Distribution
Cannabis Services
Recycling
Healthcare
Life Sciences
Fitness & Lifestyle
Food & BeverageCandor Advisors Locations
San Diego, CA
Los Angeles, CAContact Kirk Michie
Kirk Michie
Founder
Candor Advisors
(424) 365-2525
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