{
  "title": "How Roll-Ups Affect Your Exit: Price, Rollover and Your Role After",
  "url": "https://acquisitions.com/blog/how-roll-ups-affect-your-exit/",
  "author": "Moran Pober",
  "publisher": "Acquisitions.com",
  "published": "2026-10-22",
  "updated": "2026-10-22",
  "section": "Roll-ups",
  "keyword": "how roll-ups affect your exit",
  "short_answer": "A roll-up changes your exit in three ways. A platform can often pay more than an individual buyer, because it sells the combined company at a higher multiple than it pays you. It pays mostly in cash but usually asks you to roll part of your price into its stock and to stay on. After close your brand, systems and role change.",
  "facts": {
    "Price": [
      "Market multiple for a standalone business",
      "Market multiple, sometimes more for a specific asset",
      "Often above the standalone multiple, below the platform's own"
    ],
    "Cash at close": [
      "Lower; part is an SBA loan and a seller note you carry",
      "Usually high; may include stock in the acquirer",
      "High, but part of the price is rollover and earn-out"
    ],
    "Rollover": [
      "None",
      "Rare",
      "Usual, often 10% to 30% of your price"
    ],
    "Your role": [
      "Short handover, then you leave",
      "Varies; often you leave within a year",
      "Stay one to three years under an employment agreement"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://blog.portebrown.com/rollover-equity-in-private-equity-deals-what-business-owners-should-know",
    "https://www.keglerbrown.com/publications/equity-rollovers-101/",
    "https://adanews.ada.org/new-dentist/2025/november/hpi-more-new-dentists-affiliated-with-dsos/",
    "https://www.capstonepartners.com/insights/article-hvac-services-ma-update/"
  ],
  "license": "Facts may be quoted with attribution to Acquisitions.com and a link to the url above."
}