everything grows or dies
Nearly 20 years ago, our founders created a mediated M&A format replacing expensive competition with collaborative dialogue. Your clients will notice.
2024
crawford, huddleston & co. is a mediation firm in texas
Since October of 2024, our organization has worked with professional service firms to identify and replace expensive firm-to-firm competition elements of their legacy business plans, linking them with would-be competitors to deliver an expanded array of client services to a now-combined target audience. This confidential brand-building process quickly addresses top & bottom line issues, especially recruiting and client acquisition. As a related mediation deliverable, we facilitate a 3rd party think-tank dialogue for culture-bound government & NGO's to identify and redirect mission-crippling, systemic operational bias.
It's not that our guys are smarter than your guys; it's just that our guys are simply NOT your guys.
broader client service capabilities
Your clients have unmet service needs. Most professional providers would want to meet those needs. What have you told yourselves are your firm's permanent limitations?
expanded regional geographies
Are your business operations in the best-suited cities and states in the USA? In the modern economy, it's not a question of bricks and mortar--it's a question of energy and imagination.
GIVE IT A MINUTE;
Suppose 5 firms effectively share your market. Now suppose 2 of them blend their capabilities; talent, locations, resources, contacts, etc.
What happens to YOUR market share?
What if YOUR firm is one of the 2 that merge? NOW what happens to your position--as measured by client-service capacity? Market dominance only goes so far. Once you've got that "best" position, you should add another geography (and we've got some ideas).
We use a time-tested version of the engagement agreement we started with in 2004; simple and clear--inexpensive, fast and sustainable. Our fees are not associated with an outcome we can't control but a process we can. This unique process is effective because of an objective 3rd party catalyst--no fragile egos, no counter-intuitive barriers.
Firms begin and abandon M&A initiatives all the time. Often these DIY attempts fail because of a reaction to the buyer's approach. The more "innovative firms" scheme about buying, sometimes selling--rarely merging, never sharing the actual leadership of the venture. Our process involves sharing the actual leadership of the venture. The combined firm is stronger combined because none of us has all the answers.
Even if you believe other providers are as clever as you, admitting that notion might send your clients looking elsewhere? Why risk it? This hard-to-have dialogue is facilitated by a PRIVATE, protected mediated process. We'll never publish your M&A success--it's yours not ours.
IT STARTS WITH A FREE ZOOM, A Non Disclosure Agreement, THEN WHO KNOWS . . . Everything grows or dies.
Let's talk about combining your firm with a competitor
The economics are obvious; the question is what (or who) is keeping your firm
on the wrong side of this level of expanded client service? It's not rhetorical.