# Pacific Business Sales

California sell side, no upfront fees.

A California M&A advisory and business brokerage working Orange County, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire and Northern California since 2002, on deals from $1M to $50M, with a stated specialization in manufacturing, construction and aerospace.

- Category: Business Brokers & M&A Advisors
- Pricing model: Success Fee
- Where it fits: Define & Test Your Thesis, Source & Screen Deals
- Website: https://www.pbsbrokers.com

## At a Glance

The California seat on this shelf, and a seller's broker that already speaks SBA to buyers.

- Kind: One firm, one bench of brokers, one process.
- Footprint: Names California. It works beyond the states it names, so one it does not name is worth asking about rather than ruling out.
- Sells: California manufacturing, construction, aerospace and B2B service companies, brokered at $1M to $10M of gross sales with an M&A line from $10M to over $100M. A third band, $1M to $50M with no measure attached, sits on the homepage, and the transactions it displays run $650,000 to $4.9M.
  - Publishes a size, and not one a buyer can use.
- Seller Fee: Publishes the structure. It says when a fee is owed and on what basis, but names no number, so the amount takes a call.
- Buyer Fee: Says nothing about a buyer fee. Its buyer-facing pages say nothing either way about what a buyer pays.
- Works For: Represents buyers. Names a buy-side service a buyer engages, so somebody on this list can be working for you. None of them publishes what it costs, so ask that first.
- Before It Shows You Anything: Wants proof of funds before it shows you a business. Proof of funds or a personal financial statement, alongside the NDA. Expect to show what you can actually spend before you see a single set of books.
  - A Buyer Profile that collects the same facts a proof-of-funds request would, gathered inside the profile rather than asked for separately.

## What It Costs

'No upfront fees or retainers. Compensation is only upon closing the deal.' No percentage is published.

## Best For

California buyers, especially in manufacturing, construction or aerospace, who want an SBA-aware seller's broker

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Covers California, which the rest of this shelf leaves open, at a band that sits on the audience
- Pro: Publishes an [SBA 7(a)](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/sba-7a) financing explainer for buyers, which is the instrument most of these deals use
- Pro: Names a real trade specialization rather than claiming every industry
- Pro: States its fee structure in one sentence covering both the [retainer](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/retainer) and the trigger
- Con: No percentage and no minimum
- Con: One state, described by region rather than enumerated, so there is nothing finer than California to go on
- Con: Its own claims of over 25 years and a 2002 founding do not reconcile on the same page

## What Searchers Say

Fee sentence, deal band, regions and specialization read from its own pages. Its former domain pacificbusinesssales.com redirects to pbsbrokers.com, which is the live domain.

## Sources

- https://www.pbsbrokers.com/
- https://www.pbsbrokers.com/selling-your-business-faqs/
- https://www.pbsbrokers.com/how-to-buy-a-business/

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Source: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/pacific-business-sales
Last checked: 2026-09-19

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