Confidential Business Sales
Off-market and discreetly marketed sales of owner-operated, professional, and multi-location businesses. Your staff, clients, and competitors learn only what you choose, when you choose.
For sellers
Established · British Columbia
The most successful businesses in Canada deserve a broker of equal stature.
Christopher Cushion Business Brokers is an invitation-only brokerage representing high-performing businesses across British Columbia and Canada. We do not list. We curate, advise, and quietly deliver exceptional outcomes for business owners who have spent a career building something worth selling well.
40+ Yrs
Advising Owner-Operators
NDA-First
Confidential by Default
Curated
Buyer Pool, Pre-Qualified
“A business is the work of a lifetime. Its sale should be treated accordingly.”
Trusted by founders, principals & multi-site owners
Confidential
Discreet
Selective
Independent
What We Do
A single brokerage. The full transition.
Most brokers list businesses. We orchestrate transitions — from the first valuation conversation to the final handshake, with a team that includes specialist accountants, transaction counsel, and lenders.
Realistic Valuations
Market-based valuations of what your business would actually sell for, built on its financials and current market conditions. Never inflated to win a listing.
Request a valuationQualified Buyer Representation
Owner-operators, partnerships, family offices, and strategic acquirers — each pre-screened for financial capacity, operational fit, and cultural fit before they see a single number.
For buyersTransitions & Succession
Phased exits, management and employee buy-ins, and partnership unwinds. We design the structure with your accountant and counsel, then run the process end-to-end.
Explore transitionsReal Estate Advisory
We advise on the premises alongside the business — separate sale, leaseback, or hold-and-collect. Most brokers ignore the building. Most owners shouldn't.
Premises & holdingsEstate & Legacy Planning
For founders thinking three to ten years ahead: scenario valuations, value-build advisory, and contingency planning so an unplanned event never becomes a fire sale.
Plan privately
Why Christopher Cushion
We represent the business, not the transaction.
A business sale is the largest financial event of most owners' careers. It should not be treated like a residential listing. Our work begins with understanding what you have built — operationally, culturally, financially — and ends only when the right successor is in place.
- Invitation-only representation. We accept a limited number of engagements per year. Yours is given the attention it deserves.
- True independence. No competing ownership stakes, no preferred buyer relationships, no kickbacks. Your interests are the only ones we represent.
- Buyer-side intelligence. We maintain an active book of pre-qualified buyers — from first-time owner-operators to institutional acquirers — across BC and Canada.
- Discretion as default. Confidentiality agreements precede every conversation. Your team and clients are never the source of the news.
- End-to-end stewardship. Valuation, marketing, negotiation, due diligence, financing, transition. One firm. One number. One person you call.
Our Process
Six steps. One outcome. No surprises.
We have refined this process over four decades of advising owner-operators. It is deliberate, sequenced, and built around your timeline — not ours.
Private Consultation
A confidential conversation — by phone, in our offices, or over dinner. We learn the business, your timeline, and your definition of a good outcome.
Realistic Valuation
A realistic assessment of what the business will actually sell for, based on its financials and current market conditions.
Confidential Information Memorandum
A curated document — written, designed, and produced in-house — that presents the business the way a buyer's lender, accountant, and lawyer need to see it.
Curated Buyer Outreach
We approach a small, pre-qualified list. Every conversation begins with an NDA. Your competitors and staff hear nothing.
Offers, Negotiation & LOI
We manage the offer process, structure the deal alongside your counsel, and protect the price through diligence. No re-trading.
Transition & Close
Financing, legal, regulatory, premises, and the client and staff communications plan. You sign once. We coordinate everything else.
Sectors We Represent
Established, profitable, privately held.
We represent owner-operated businesses with a proven record, a team in place and a story worth telling well — across British Columbia and Canada.
Healthcare & Professional Practices
Dental, medical, veterinary and allied-health practices, and established legal, accounting and advisory firms.
Commercial Property & Holding Companies
Income-producing real estate and the companies that hold it, structured as share or asset sales.
Coworking, Hospitality & Lifestyle
Shared workspace, boutique hospitality, fitness, wellness and premium personal-service businesses.
Trades, Construction & Home Services
HVAC, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and specialty contractors with recurring service revenue.
Manufacturing & Distribution
Light industrial, fabrication, wholesale and logistics operators with durable customer relationships.
Owner-Operated Service Companies
Established B2B and consumer service businesses with recurring revenue and management depth.
Current Opportunities
Select businesses, available now.
Most representations are introduced privately — under NDA — to pre-qualified buyers within our network. A small number of current opportunities in British Columbia are summarised on our listings page; full information is released to qualified buyers.
Common Questions
What owners ask first.
How much is my business worth in British Columbia?
Most established private businesses transact at a multiple of earnings (normalised EBITDA), with the multiple driven by sector, customer concentration, recurring revenue, management depth, premises arrangements, and the trajectory of the last three years. Our valuations are deliberately realistic: they reflect what we believe the business would actually sell for, based on its financials and current market conditions. Most are completed within three to five weeks.
How long does it take to sell a business?
A well-prepared business typically sells within six to nine months from engagement to close — sometimes faster for off-market transactions to a known buyer, sometimes longer for specialised or multi-location businesses. We do not recommend rushing the process; the difference between a six-month sale and a nine-month sale is rarely worth the difference in outcome.
Will my staff and clients find out the business is for sale?
Not from us. Every prospective buyer signs a non-disclosure agreement before they see your business name. We do not post your business on public websites, do not use brokers' MLS-style listing services without your written approval, and do not contact staff or clients directly. We are extremely discreet, and we understand how much discretion matters to you, your staff and your clients.
Do you sell businesses outside of British Columbia?
Yes. While British Columbia is our home market, we represent businesses across Canada — Alberta, Ontario, and beyond — for owners whose business and buyer pool merit our model. Most out-of-province engagements come through referrals from clients, accountants, or counsel.
What are your fees?
We work on a success-fee basis for business sales, payable only at closing. Valuation engagements and long-horizon advisory work are billed as fixed fees, agreed in advance. There are no upfront listing fees, no marketing recoveries, and no charges for cancelled transactions. Specifics are discussed and documented in the engagement letter.
Can you help me sell the business and the building together?
Yes — and we strongly recommend at least considering it. The combined sale of a business and its premises can materially change the after-tax outcome, particularly where the building is held in a separate corporation. We model both options and advise on the structure most likely to deliver the best result.
I am three to ten years away from selling — is it too early to talk?
It is the right time. The owners who realise the most value are almost always those who engaged a broker three to ten years before sale. We offer long-horizon advisory engagements that include periodic valuations, value-build planning, and quiet preparation work — without committing you to a sale on any timeline.
A First Conversation
When you are ready, we are discreet, deliberate, and very good at this.
Most of our clients begin with a single confidential call. There is no obligation, no listing agreement, and no pressure — only a careful conversation about what you have built and what comes next.