The Firm
Why the firm exists, the standards it holds to, and the documents those standards are recorded in.
The succession market offers owners two options. DMX McArthur was formed to provide a third.
Most owners work until they stop, and thirty years of trust ends with them. The rest sell to a buyer on a five-year clock.
DMX McArthur & Company acquires controlling interests in frontline businesses, integrates them onto a shared operating backbone, and holds them permanently. Four convictions govern how the firm builds.
Builders deserve a respectful buyer.
A life’s work is a legacy to steward, not a yield to extract.
Employees receive benefits on Day one.
Health insurance, payroll, and HR for every worker the day the deal closes.
Ownership should compound.
Equity spreads as the businesses improve instead of concentrating at an exit.
The firm builds institutions, not assets.
Governance discipline at every layer, built for decades and replicated at community scale.
The firm’s commitments rest on infrastructure that already exists.
The governance architecture, diligence rubric, integration playbook, and benefits infrastructure all existed before the first dollar deployed. Each year the firm will publish a short stewardship report: businesses held, workers covered, founders still holding a stake, and what was declined and why.
The paperwork exists.
These standards live in controlled, versioned internal documents under counsel and Board review. The contents are internal. Their existence is not.
| Document | Governs | Status |
|---|---|---|
| DMX-OPS-001 | Operating system, integration playbook, and entity governance | Under document control |
| DMX-DIL-001 | 24-criterion acquisition diligence rubric and scoring tiers | Under document control |
| DMX-IEN-001 | Intercompany economics and conflict-of-interest review | Under document control |
| DMX-TML-001 | Phase 1 milestones and operating timeline | Under document control |
| DMX-BRD-001 | Brand standards and web presentation standards | Under document control |
Summaries on this page are descriptive; the controlling versions are the internal documents above. Deviations require documented Board approval, a rule that is itself written down.