# Viking Mergers & Acquisitions

Southeast and Mid-Atlantic sell side.

A Southeastern M&A firm founded in 1996 with offices across ten states and Washington DC, splitting its work into business brokerage for companies valued $1M to $10M and M&A above that, and publishing what it does not charge item by item.

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

## At a Glance

The Southeast bench, and the clearest published account anywhere of what a broker does not charge.

- Kind: One firm, one bench of brokers, one process.
- Footprint: Names Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It works beyond the states it names, so one it does not name is worth asking about rather than ruling out.
- Sells: Businesses at $1M to over $150M of stated business value across thirty-plus industries in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, with over 950 deals since 1996. The top of that band sits oddly against the firm's own founding story about the main-street owner without a board of directors.
  - Publishes a size band you can check yourself against.
- 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: Buyer list only. Invites buyers onto a list to see or be alerted to its own listings. That is access, not advocacy: the firm is still paid by the seller.
- 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 confidentiality agreement, and the firm says it may also ask for additional background and proof of funds before sharing details, asked at the point a buyer requests information on a listing. The proof-of-funds half is conditional in its own words.

## What It Costs

Four negatives and one positive, in its own words: it 'does NOT charge retainer fees', 'does NOT charge hourly or project-based fees', 'does NOT charge out-of-pocket expenses', and of the success fee, 'This is the only fee Viking M&A charges. You do not pay anything if your business does not sell.' No percentage is published; the statements sit in a blog post and, on the September 2026 re-read, on its selling questions page too, and neither is a pricing page.

## Best For

Buyers working the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic or Texas who want a firm that spells out its charges line by line

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: The most itemized fee statement on this shelf, naming three separate charges it does not make
- Pro: Names its offices state by state, and splits its work into a brokerage tier and an M&A tier at $10M
- Pro: More than 950 closed transactions since 1996 by its own count
- Con: The fee detail lives in a blog post and a questions page rather than on a pricing page, so re-read it before relying on it
- Con: No percentage of any kind: the structure is stated and the number is not
- Con: Publishes buyer pages and a five-step buyer process that names an [NDA](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/nda) and financial forms, and never who pays the broker

## What Searchers Say

Office states, tier split, fee statements and transaction count read from Viking's own pages. Its locations page enumerates offices rather than a service area, and a separate sentence describes growth 'into a multi-region M&A firm', so the state list is a floor rather than a boundary.

## Sources

- https://www.vikingmergers.com
- https://www.vikingmergers.com/about-us/
- https://www.vikingmergers.com/about-us/our-locations/
- https://www.vikingmergers.com/selling-your-business/
- https://www.vikingmergers.com/blog/selling-a-business-yourself-vs-hiring-a-business-broker/
- https://www.vikingmergers.com/selling-your-business/selling-faqs/
- https://www.vikingmergers.com/our-process/

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Last checked: 2026-09-19

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