As a Los Angeles marketing agency M&A firm, Creative Biz Exchange specializes in M&A for marketing and creative agencies across California, helping owners achieve seamless transitions while maintaining brand equity and client relationships.
Marketing Agency Industry
Agency deals move on different terms than most businesses. As a California marketing agency M&A firm, we help you position, benchmark, and close around the numbers that actually matter to a buyer.
Explore NowAgency Valuation & Benchmarking
Buyer & Holding Company Sourcing
Retainer & Client Mix Analysis
Deal Structuring & Close
Valuation
Revenue multiples only tell part of the story. Here's what buyers dig into before they ever talk price.
Client Concentration
No single client carrying too much of revenue matters more to a buyer than total billings.
Recurring Retainers
Retainer-based revenue is valued very differently from project or campaign-based work.
Team Dependency
Client relationships spread across the team, not concentrated in the founder, support a smoother handoff.
Service Mix
A mix weighted toward strategy and retained services moves valuation more than project volume alone.
Client Tenure
Long-tenured client relationships signal the agency delivers, not just wins new logos.
Contract Terms
Clean, assignable contracts reduce a buyer's risk that revenue walks at the point of sale.
Why Us
Agency M&A rewards a team who actually understands the business model. Here's what that looks like at a boutique M&A firm in California.
Agency-Fluent Team
We understand retainers, utilization, and client concentration natively.
Data-Backed Valuation
Benchmarked against real, comparable agency transactions, not a flat revenue multiple.
Confidential Process
Your team, clients, and competitors stay in the dark until you're ready to tell them.
Qualified Buyer Pool
We bring the business to holding companies, private buyers, and groups who understand agencies.
AI & Modern Methods
Creative Biz Exchange runs retainer and client-mix analysis, holding company research, and comparable-transaction benchmarking through a modern, AI-enabled process, while every negotiation and strategic decision stays in the hands of a team who understands agency economics.
Our Process
Five stages. One point of contact the whole way through.
Business
review
Valuation
benchmark
Sourcing
buyers
Diligence
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closed
Testimonials
Real outcomes from agency owners who trusted us with a transaction that mattered to them.
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
The team's approach made navigating complex business decisions straightforward. Creative Biz Exchange ensured outcomes aligned perfectly with long-term goals.
Jamie L.
Managing Director
Creative Biz Exchange delivered strategic advice that truly maximized value. Their attention to detail and integrity stood out at every step.
Emma Martin
Director
Working with Creative Biz Exchange was seamless. Their expertise in M&A provided clarity and confidence throughout the entire process.
Adam Smith
CEO
We typically work with agencies from around $1M to $20M in revenue across Los Angeles and California, whether you're selling, raising, or acquiring.
We benchmark retainer mix, client concentration, tenure, and margin against recent comparable agency transactions, supported by AI-assisted market research.
No. We run a confidential process by default and control exactly what information goes out and when.
Yes. We work with buyers too, sourcing and vetting agency opportunities that match your criteria.
