Agribusiness & Food

M&A Advisory for Middle Market Business Owners

agribusiness fieldsFOCUS Investment Banking’s Agribusiness and Food team brings deep industry knowledge across production agriculture, food processing, value-added manufacturing, ingredient supply, and distribution. Our bankers offer strategic guidance, creative financial solutions, and transactional expertise to help entrepreneurs and operators navigate today’s complex and evolving market landscape.

From row crop operations and agritech to vertically integrated food companies and branded consumer goods, the pressures facing the industry—supply chain disruptions, labor constraints, inflationary costs, and global competition—require specialized insight and agile decision-making.

Whether you’re looking to raise growth capital, explore a sale, acquire complementary operations, or restructure your business, FOCUS provides the experience, relationships, and industry perspective to guide you through a successful outcome.

With over 30 years of experience advising food and agribusiness clients—including in grain handling, specialty crop production, meat and dairy, processing and packaging—FOCUS understands the operational realities and financial needs unique to this sector.

As food and agriculture become increasingly global industries, our international reach through M&A Worldwide connects clients to strategic buyers and investors around the world. Recent cross-border engagements highlight the growing appetite of global food players to expand their U.S. presence—creating unique opportunities for domestic operators.

Our team works across multiple sectors:

  • Ag Finance and Risk Management

  • Farm Management and Ag Services

Services

Our practice concentrates on providing investment banking services to middle market food industry clients including:

  • Sell-Side Engagements – to assist owners looking to exit or sell their business with the highest possible return.

  • Buy-Side Engagements – helping clients grow their business through acquisition or expansion programs.

  • Capital Formation – aiding companies in raising appropriate capital for growth, expansion or recapitalization.

Differentiators

  • Industry Expertise – With backgrounds that include C level operating experience as well as over 15 years of industry contacts and relationships with both strategic and financial players in the food industry, our bankers have a deep understanding of the forces at work that are shaping the industry.

  • Experienced Bankers – lead and execute every deal from start to finish giving our clients the advantage of continuity and experience as well advisory support.

  • Process-driven Outcomes – Supported by strong in-house research, our M&A process has a proven track record of over 130 closed deals in the last 10 years.

AGRIBUSINESS & FOOD TEAM

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Success Stories From Our Clients

“Having the FOCUS team so focused on ensuring a deal that would please all parties allowed me to continue shouldering the day-to-day responsibilities of running the company. It’s tough to quantify how valuable that is…I know they are old fashioned kinds of words, trust and respect, but they still work. The collective team trusted each other to start with and earned each other’s respect as the deal kept going.”

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Tony McEntee, CEO

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