ADVISORY · REAL ESTATE · CAPITAL — WASHINGTON, DC
Smith & Maye helps owner-led businesses build real wealth — by scaling what they've built, or by selling it well. And we bring private capital to cash-flowing assets it would never otherwise see. We underwrite what a business earns today, and what it earns in a downturn. Not what a projection says it might do.
Each serves a different party, and each strengthens the other two.
For the business owner.
We start with a free diagnostic — a clear-eyed read on the company you built, delivered before anyone talks about capital, structure, or a sale. If we're the right fit, we go to work: tightening operations, cleaning the financials, and preparing the business for whichever door you choose. Grow it. Or sell it, on terms that reflect what it's actually worth. The client is the owner. The outcome is his wealth.
Explore AdvisoryFor the firm and its partners.
We acquire alongside our capital partners. Sometimes that's the building an operating company works out of. Sometimes it's a standalone asset — multifamily, mixed-use, whatever the numbers support. The standard doesn't change. We underwrite current performance and the downside case. We don't buy a story.
Explore Real EstateFor the investor.
Off-market, cash-flowing, owner-led businesses do not appear on a screen. They are too small to bank and too private to market. Reaching them requires being in the room before the business is for sale. That is the room we're in.
Explore CapitalWe underwrite what an asset earns now and what it survives in a downturn. Every time.
Scale it or sell it. Both are wins. Neither is our decision.
Most of our work never becomes public. That is the point of it.
We read investors with the same discipline we read businesses.
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No fee. No obligation. No pitch until we understand the business. Tell us what you've built, and we'll tell you what we see.
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