Title Sponsor · Acquicon 2026 ·October 19–21·Salt Lake City
Taylor Proactive Team × Acquicon
Proud Title Sponsor of Acquicon 2026

Your exit is the biggest paycheck of your life.
Who decides where it goes?

Most operators meet a tax strategist after the deal closes. By then the structure is set, the options are gone, and the number is whatever it is. We start before — so the money you spent years building goes where you decide, instead of defaulting to the IRS.

For founders, investors, and advisors in the Acquisition HQ ecosystem

Book a Discovery Call → See what waiting costs

No cost, no obligation. If we can't help you, we'll tell you on the call.

$1.58M+
Highest Year 1 Savings
$2.4M+
Average 10-Year Savings
63%
Average ROI Across Plans
40+
Years Combined Experience
A full main-stage session at Acquicon in Salt Lake City
Acquicon, Salt Lake City. Four hundred vetted operators, investors, and advisors — and we're the title sponsor.
The Honest Question

What if you wait too long?

Nobody in this room is planning to do nothing. The only real question is when — and the answer decides which of these two versions you get.

If you wait

Report what already happened.

  • Tax work begins after the year ends and after the deal closes
  • Deal structure, entity setup, and tax planning handled by people who never speak to each other
  • Depreciation opportunities at acquisition quietly pass by
  • A liquidity event arrives structured the way the buyer's paperwork happened to structure it
  • Your CPA calls once a year, in the spring, about last year

If you start now

Design what happens next.

  • Planning starts before the transaction, while the structure is still yours to shape
  • Entity architecture, timing, and depreciation designed into the deal itself
  • Acquisition assets deployed for Year 1 deductions against active income
  • Exit positioning built two to five years ahead of the close
  • Quarterly strategy sessions about next year, not one filing about last year
The Difference

Any CPA can tell you what your exit cost.
We're paid to change the number.

An accurate report on a finished deal is genuinely useful. But by the time it exists, the number on it is already settled.

Designing how you exit is worth far more. Our job is to build a strategy that helps you keep more of the value you spent years creating — and that work has to happen before the close, not after.

Acquicon title sponsor slide showing the Taylor Proactive Team logo, with Colby Taylor presenting to a full room
Acquicon title sponsor — and the session where we make this exact case.
Who This Is For

Three rooms at Acquicon.
Three business lines we serve.

Acquicon vets every attendee. If you're in the room, there's a strong chance you're in one of these lines of business.

Acquicon attendees networking at an outdoor reception
The reception, before the sessions start. This is where most of the real conversations happen.
01 · Operators

Founders & CEOs

Running $2M–$50M+ businesses, scaling through bolt-ons, or heading toward a liquidity event. The more complex the income, the more the structure around it is worth — and the earlier it has to be built.

02 · Capital

Investors & Family Offices

Deploying capital across entities and managing K-1s from multiple positions. Your tax position should be designed alongside your investment thesis, not reconciled against it in April.

03 · Advisors

Attorneys, Bankers & Brokers

Deal fees arrive in large, uneven amounts — one of the least efficiently taxed income shapes there is. We help you keep more of what a good year produces, and build structure that survives a lean one.

What We Do

Built for deal-driven income

These are examples from a much larger toolkit, not a menu. Which ones apply to you is exactly what the assessment is for — because every plan we build is “Taylored.”

Exit & Capital Gains Positioning

A business exit is one of the highest-tax events in an owner's life, and nearly all of the planning has to exist before the close. We start years ahead.

Entity & Holdco Architecture

How your holdco, operating entities, and deal vehicles relate to each other drives the tax outcome of everything downstream. Designed before deals close, not diagnosed after.

Bonus Depreciation on Acquisitions

Assets acquired in a deal can generate substantial Year 1 deductions against active income — turning a purchase you were already making into a cash-positive event.

Income Shifting & Retirement Structures

Move income deliberately across entities, family members, and qualified vehicles to lower the effective rate while compounding long-term wealth.

Energy & Credit Strategies

Federal energy credits and accelerated depreciation produce meaningful, code-supported offsets for high-income operators and investors.

Charitable & Legacy Structures

For owners who intend to give anyway, structure decides how far the same dollar travels — and how much of the outcome you control.

How We Build It

How we design a custom
“Taylored” plan for you

Three steps, in order, with a decision point that stays yours the whole way through.

STEP 01

Discovery Call

A conversation, not a pitch. Where you are, what's coming, and what you'd want the money to do. If there's nothing meaningful here for you, we say so on this call.

STEP 02

The Assessment

Our team does the real work — a deep dive on your actual documents and a custom plan with the strategies that fit your situation and the numbers attached to each one.

STEP 03

Review & Implementation

A specialist walks you through the plan line by line. It's yours to keep either way. If you'd like us to execute it, that's when we talk about what that looks like.

A Real Plan

What this looks like in practice

One actual client plan. Not a projection, not a model — a plan we built and delivered.

Business owner · Multi-entity income

Year 1 snapshot

Deployed
$654,766
Year 1 Tax Savings
$1,061,895
Net Year 1 Benefit
+$407,129
This is what cash-positive means. The capital wasn't spent — it was reallocated. Money that was headed to the IRS went into assets this owner still holds, and they finished the year with more than they started with.

Individual results depend entirely on your facts and circumstances. Figures shown reflect one client's plan and are not a prediction, guarantee, or offer. Nothing on this page is tax, legal, or investment advice.

Find Us in Salt Lake

We're at Acquicon all three days

As title sponsor, we're on site from the pre-party through close. Book a time now and we'll have your conversation on the calendar before you land.

Mon · Oct 19

At the pre-parties. Colby and the team are there all evening. Come say hello before the main stage starts.

Tue · Oct 20

On the main stage. Time to be announced — check back closer to the event.

Wed · Oct 21

Our breakout session. Room and time to be announced — the best slot for a longer conversation about a specific deal.

Colby Taylor presenting a Taylor Proactive Team session to Acquisition HQ attendees
Our session — we teach in this room, not just sponsor it.
Sell Side Panel session at Acquicon covering exit preparation and negotiations
The sell-side panel — exit prep, negotiations, value.

Not attending this year? The call works just as well from wherever you are.

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Let's find out what's possible

Pick a time that works. We'll talk about where you are, what's coming, and whether there's something here worth building. If there isn't, you'll know by the end of the call.

Common Questions

Questions we get asked

We're the title sponsor of Acquicon 2026, Acquisition HQ's national conference, held October 19–21 in Salt Lake City. We sponsor it because the people in that room are the people we're built for — operators, investors, and advisors whose income runs through deals.

Earlier than most people think, and ideally two to five years out. The great majority of exit planning has to be in place before a transaction closes. Once the deal is signed, most of the options are simply no longer available — which is why the timing matters more than almost anything else.

Your CPA reports the past accurately, and that work matters. We design the future. It's a different orientation, a different calendar, and a different set of conversations — which is why the two roles coexist well. We're not asking you to fire anyone.

Business owners and investors paying six figures or more in annual tax, and founders approaching a liquidity event of $1M or more. Below that threshold there usually isn't enough room for these strategies to be worth it, and we'd rather say that up front than take an engagement that doesn't pay for itself.

Watching people who built something keep control of what it becomes. The tax savings are the mechanism. What our clients do with it — fund a foundation, put grandchildren through school, buy the next business, set up a generation — is the actual reason we do this work.

The money is moving either way.

The only question is whether it goes somewhere you chose. That's a decision you can still make — but only while the structure is still yours to shape.

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