First Choice Business Brokers Los Angeles
Business Brokerage · Updated October 2026
An office of First Choice Business Brokers
Current deals $1M–$3.8M
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Based on current listings; this profile has not stated a specialty.
About First Choice Business Brokers Los Angeles
At First Choice Business Brokers Los Angeles, the team sells Main Street and middle market businesses across Southern California. The office operates as an independently owned and operated member of the First Choice Business Brokers network. Eric Johnson leads it as Co-Owner and CEO, with Adrianna Smith serving alongside him as broker. Agents including Michael Preston, Deanna Dubé, Robin Howard, and Dev Isemeyer handle sell-side and buy-side engagements. The office runs the full process: valuation, confidential marketing, buyer vetting, paperwork, and escrow through closing. JM Muñoz coordinates listings and Winston Ong coordinates clients.
Who is a good fit for First Choice Business Brokers Los Angeles
- Owners of Southern California businesses who want a confidential sale run by a licensed brokerage.
- Buyers seeking restaurants, salons, contractors, wholesalers, or online platforms priced from $1,000,000 to $3,750,000.
- Sellers of multi-location concepts, such as the three-unit restaurant chain and three-studio sugaring platform on its books.
- Buyers open to businesses outside California, including listings in Hawaii and Wyoming.
Service areas
Los Angeles, CA
Brokers and advisors at First Choice Business Brokers Los Angeles
Businesses for sale from First Choice Business Brokers Los Angeles
Frequently Asked Questions
The office serves owners selling Main Street and middle market businesses, and buyers looking to acquire them. It works from Los Angeles and focuses on Southern California. There its team has helped hundreds of people buy or sell. Its current listings sit in California, Hawaii, Tennessee, and Wyoming. Sellers and buyers across all industries and business sizes work with the office.
The office manages the entire process. It values the business, markets it confidentially, vets buyers, and manages buyer and seller meetings. It then prepares the transaction paperwork and manages escrow, the landlord, and financing through closing. Buyers request information on a listing and sign the network's NDA before they receive confidential details. The office also runs a free webinar on increasing a business's value.
The office currently carries 37 live listings. They include restaurants, fast food, coffee, bars and liquor, retail, wholesale, beauty, and fitness. Others cover construction, manufacturing, auto, landscape and pool, e-commerce, home-based, and personal and commercial services. Its listings here include a three-location restaurant chain and a women's clothing wholesaler. Others are a self-serve car wash with real estate and a residential design and build firm.
Yes. The office describes itself as a full-service business brokerage and M&A advisory firm. It handles business sales for small and medium-sized companies and extends the same process to larger transactions. Its agents guide buyers and sellers on both sides of a transaction.
Eric Johnson leads the office as Co-Owner, CEO, and broker, and Adrianna Smith serves as broker. Agents include Melanie Smith, Michael Preston, Deanna Dubé, Robin Howard, David Gonzales, and Darrol Mitchell. Angie Redpath, Ira Putra, Dev Isemeyer, Martin Navarro, and Chris Choe also serve as agents. JM Muñoz coordinates listings and Winston Ong coordinates clients.
The office holds California license 01961019. It operates as office number 130 of the First Choice Business Brokers network. Each office in that network operates under independent ownership. Network membership brings the confidential listing process, including the NDA every buyer signs before receiving details.
Yes. Beyond Los Angeles, the office lists businesses elsewhere in California, including a self-serve car wash in Alameda. It also carries listings in Hawaii, Tennessee, and Wyoming. Among them are a full-service restaurant in Hilo and a remote software platform in Sheridan, Wyoming. Buyers inquire through the listing and complete the network's NDA regardless of location.