The Agency Value Engineer

You built the value. We help you realise it.

If you own a creative agency or consultancy, we engineer and realise the equity value you've built. Our three systems approach - growth, operations, management - shapes the things buyers pay a premium for.

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Meet our founder

Different experience

I founded Hunter Hawes & Co because, when I was buying agencies myself, I saw how confusing, stressful and generally hideous the process was to many agency owners.

While a transaction can be genuinely life-changing financially, money is just one piece of the puzzle. What about the culture you built so carefully? What about the dreams and aspirations of your team members? How are the promises you made to them going to be kept? This is your legacy. How will it be protected?

I majored on these things when I was buying. Now, I’m committed full-time to helping agency owners solve the full puzzle too. People, culture, promises, clients and you.

Different experience

Our Approach

What sets us apart

We live and breathe the sector. We come from it; we're still in it. It's all we do.

  • Creative Dealhunters

    Be confident you're getting the very best deal for you, not just what's easily available. Our experience brings creativity to deal making and we like to think we can secure deals others can't see.

  • Beyond Numbers

    Every deal is a human story, especially in agency. In our sector, deals only succeeds when human outcomes matter as much as EBITDA multiples, earn outs and spreadsheets.

  • Selective Focus

    Our clinical processes ensure no value is left on the table. We focus on EBITDA multiple optimisation and rigorous due diligence for both buyers and sellers.

The Method

Three systems. One equation: adjusted EBITDA × multiple.

  • Growth System

    Buyers don't pay for revenue, they pay for revenue that won't walk. Engineer growth that holds.
    Growth System

  • Operations System

    Buyers don't pay for your showreel. They pay for the system that keeps producing genius. Systemise the operations behind your superpowers.
    Operations System

  • Management System

    Great agencies are built on more than numbers - culture, leadership, how people grow. Codify the DNA that makes the business worth owning.
    Management System

Most owners spend their time trying to grow EBITDA. The ones who sell well also work on the multiple.

Start with a value diagnostic.

A conversation about what your agency is worth today, what would move that number, and whether we're the right people to help.

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Achieving Peak Exit

A transaction is the outcome, not the starting point.

When you've built a business that runs without you, with revenue that's durable and EBITDA that survives adjustments, you control the timing and terms of any sale. That's a peak exit. We all know agency owners who exited at peak; we also know not everyone gets a peak exit. But the choice isn't peak or nothing. Every agency is saleable. To whom? At what price? On what terms? That's where we really earn our spurs.

We see what others don't. We know which buyers want what. We get you as close to peak exit as your timeline allows.

In The Media

Podcast Appearances

  • Confessions of a B2B Entrepreneur

    Tom Hunt — Agency M&A Mastery

    In this interview, Tom wanted to talk through the M&A process start to finish and asked me to illustrate with some of the experiences from my journey.

    Watch on YouTube · Listen on Spotify · Apple Podcasts

  • Agency Acquisitions and Exits

    Peter Lang — Scaling Through The Storm

    I liked Peter's programmatic acquisition system so much, I joined his programme. Through his community, I now help US-based agencies undertake programmatic acquisitions, solving their problems and boosting growth by buying and integrating.

    Find out more about the programme by filling out the form on the Contact Page

    Watch on YouTube · Listen on Spotify

  • The Handbook

    Harv Nagra — What M&A Taught Me

    In this podcast with Harv Nagara, I run through the sale process, start to finish, and illustrate it with some of my experience from the journey

    Watch on YouTube · Listen on Spotify · Apple Podcasts

  • Unicorny

    Dom Hawes — We don't think the way we think we think

    While this isn't about M&A, what Tas talks about in this interview is 100% relevant for anyone entering a transaction process. Remember, numbers and stories both matter.

    Watch on YouTube · Listen on Spotify · Apple Podcasts

  • £50M+

    Cumulative deal value

  • 16+

    Transactions completed

  • 100%

    Principal-led advisory

  • 15+

    Years of experience