ON THE RECORD · DEAL TAPE
The tape is HVAC, machining, and MSP – not just agencies.
Yes, that name. No, not the Goodfellas guy. I’m the living one.
People hear “digital M&A” and picture agencies. That is one lane. It is not the tape.
Prime Acquisitions Group publishes phase-by-phase walkthroughs of live deals. The ones on the record include an $8.4M HVAC roll-up funded in 90 days at 4.4× adjusted EBITDA (August 2024), a $12M precision-machining deal taken past the SBA ceiling on alternative capital and an earn-out (February 2025), and a $3.1M-revenue MSP that was under LOI. There is also a contested agency deal we won buy-side. Agency work is in the mix. It is not the headline of every close.
If you only read the podcast title, you would think I buy agencies. I do, when the books are clean and the owner can leave the room for a week. I also buy and structure HVAC platforms, machine shops, and managed-service businesses, and I use SBA preapprovals, seller financing, and earn-outs when that is what gets a deal to close. The public walkthroughs are on the deal tape.
Why this matters for a search
A buyer looking for someone who has actually closed an HVAC roll-up should not have to guess from an agency-only page. Same for a machining owner who is past the SBA limit, or an MSP operator who wants a clean earn-out. The work is already documented. The personal site should say so in the same words the tape uses – no extra zeros, no invented volume.
Deal counts still disagree across the internet (this site, the firm site, a YouTube title). Until that is settled, I am not picking a new headline number. The walkthroughs stand on their own: named vertical, named structure, named date.
Figures in this piece are from the firm’s public deal tape on this site, not a third-party audit.
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