SELL SMART
EXIT STRONG
Lower middle market M&A advisory for owners ready to exit on their terms.
Business Broker in Tampa
Selling your business is the single largest transaction of your career. At TAMBAY Mergers & Acquisitions, every engagement is led personally by founder and CEO Tom Brubaker, a state-certified appraiser and licensed M&A broker with decades of experience structuring complex deals. No junior associates. No handoffs. From the first conversation to the closing table, you work directly with the principal whose name is on the door.
State-Certified Appraiser
License #RD2130
IBBA Member
International Business Brokers Association
BBF State Board Member
Business Brokers of Florida
Licensed Real Estate Instructor
License #ZH1003617
Lower Middle Market M&A Advisory With the Principal at the Table
You Deal
With Tom.
Full Stop.
At most firms, you meet the principal once. After that, your deal gets handed to whoever is available. TAMBAY is a boutique M&A advisory firm where the founder and CEO is your advisor from the first call to the closing table. No account managers. No junior associates assigned mid-process. The same person who signs your engagement letter is the same person sitting across from your buyer in due diligence.
Tom's dual credentials as a state-certified appraiser and a licensed M&A broker mean your opinion of value is not a ballpark pulled from a comp database. It is a forensic analysis of your financials, market position, customer concentration, working capital, and the operational risk factors that serious buyers will tear apart in due diligence. You walk into every negotiation knowing exactly where your number comes from and why it holds.
Most brokers rely on exposure. We rely on strategy. When you know your real number before the market sees your business, and you have a controlled sale process working in your favor, you stop hoping a buyer shows up and start choosing among the ones who do.
HOW CAN WE HELP?
M&A Advisory, Valuation, and Acquisition Services
Every situation is different. Tell us yours.
I'M READY TO SELL
WHAT WE DO
Full-Service M&A Advisory
BUSINESS VALUATION
Most brokers hand you a number designed to win your listing. Tom builds his from the ground up. With decades of appraisal experience across business and real estate, every opinion of value from TAMBAY reflects your actual financials, market position, customer concentration, working capital, and the risk factors serious buyers will scrutinize in due diligence. You walk into every conversation knowing exactly where your number comes from and why it holds.
EXIT STRATEGY
The best exits are planned years before a business goes to market. Tom works with owners who are 12 to 36 months out from selling to identify what is adding value, what is hurting it, and what specific steps taken now will produce a meaningfully higher outcome at closing. Waiting until you are ready to sell to start this conversation is the most expensive mistake an owner can make.
M&A ADVISORY
For owners navigating mergers, recapitalizations, management buyouts, or complex restructuring, TAMBAY provides strategic counsel beyond standard brokerage. Tom has handled transactions across a wide range of industries and deal structures. The objective is always the same. Control the process, derive true market value, and create competition among the right buyers or strategic partners.
BUY-SIDE ADVISORY
Acquiring a business requires the same analytical discipline as selling one. Tom brings a state-certified appraisal background to every acquisition engagement, evaluating what a target business actually generates versus what a seller projects it will generate. That distinction is where buyers either protect their capital or lose it.
DEAL MANAGEMENT
From the first confidentiality agreement to the closing table, Tom manages every stage of the transaction personally. Buyer vetting, negotiations, due diligence coordination, lender communication, and closing logistics. Nothing gets handed off. Nothing falls through the cracks because someone assumed another person was handling it.
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Through TAMBAY Commercial, Tom extends the same appraisal-backed discipline to commercial property transactions. Whether you are selling an office building, acquiring industrial space, or evaluating a retail investment, every engagement starts with a number that is supportable, not an opinion optimized to win the listing. Visit TAMBAY Commercial to learn more.
Client Results
What TAMBAY Clients Are Saying
Selling a business is not a clean process. It is months of negotiation, due diligence, buyer demands, and moments where the deal feels like it is falling apart. Emotions run high on both sides of the table. Timelines shift. Terms get challenged. The pressure on an owner during this process is real, and most people who have not been through it underestimate how personal it gets.
Tom Brubaker has sat at that table hundreds of times. As founder and president of TAMBAY Mergers & Acquisitions, he does not hand your deal to someone else when it gets complicated. He stays in it. Every call, every negotiation, every difficult conversation between buyer and seller, Tom is the person on your side of the table working to keep the process moving and protect your outcome.
The reviews below come from owners who went through that process with Tom directly. They are not curated testimonials written for a website. They are the words of people who came out the other side of one of the most demanding transactions of their lives and took the time to say something about it.
"This was my first experience selling a sizable business, and I had no idea how much attention to detail it would really take. From finding the right buyer to presenting the opportunity in a way that was both compelling, honest, and backed by real, thoughtful analysis. The listing, the supporting documentation, the meetings, the negotiations, the follow-up calls and emails... It all required a level of experience and patience I couldn't have pulled off alone.
Tom and Kristin are a magical duo, each bringing their own set of tools. They stayed committed through every twist, every turn, and every clarification needed, keeping the process alive and helping both sides come together with clarity and mutual respect.
I couldn't recommend this team more. They got the job done, and they did it right. Thank you!"
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ACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Search for a Business
The listings in this database represent publicly available opportunities. The most significant transactions TAMBAY facilitates rarely appear here. Off-market acquisitions move through private channels, between sellers who require absolute confidentiality and investors who have demonstrated the seriousness to engage before a business is ever publicly listed. If you are evaluating opportunities at that level, the database below is a starting point. Tom's network is where the real conversation begins.
Find Something Worth a Closer Look?
Whether you found a listing worth exploring, need help identifying the right acquisition, or want to ask about off-market opportunities that never go public, Tom is your next call.
Community & Partners
TAMBAY Mergers & Acquisitions works alongside some of the most respected organizations in the business brokerage, M&A, and commercial real estate industries. Beyond the transaction table, Tom is an active participant in his local business community, regularly sponsoring and attending industry events including the FGCAR Gulf Scramble. That kind of involvement is not incidental. It is how relationships are built, how off-market opportunities surface, and how a boutique firm earns the kind of trust that a national brand never can.
Tom Brubaker - Managing M&A Broker
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