Entrepreneurs serving entrepreneurs.

Our story

Legacy Handoff was founded by Riggs Powell. He's originally from California, played football at BYU, spent two years in Lyon, France, and came back to finish a finance degree and an MBA at the Marriott School. After several years in sales leadership at high-growth Utah companies, including VP of Sales and VP of Revenue roles, he built a company and helped sell it for eight figures, was involved with GetOutPass from the start and helped grow it, and went on to sell six businesses of his own and buy others along the way.

Selling those businesses taught us more than any textbook. We learned what it feels like to keep a sale secret from a team you care about, how badly the wrong buyer can waste your time, and how much the deal structure matters to what you actually take home. We also learned that most brokers had never been through it themselves.

So we started Legacy Handoff. The name is the point: your business is your life's work, and the sale should be a handoff to someone who'll carry it forward, not a liquidation. We're entrepreneurs serving entrepreneurs, and every deal should be a win-win.

Why we still buy and run businesses

We're still involved in acquisitions and running businesses today. That keeps us sharp on what buyers want, what lenders will finance, and what it takes to run a company day to day. When we tell a seller what a buyer will push back on, it's because we've pushed back on it ourselves.

How we work

• You work directly with our team. You work with Riggs and the people around him, not an associate you've never met, and your deal gets real attention.
• Honest numbers. We'd rather lose a listing by telling you the truth than win it with a price that never sells.
• Paid at closing. No upfront fees. Our incentives are exactly yours.
• Reachable. You'll have our cell numbers, and we answer them.

Off the clock

Riggs has lived in Utah since 2015 and is married to a Pleasant Grove native. They have a daughter and a son. When he's not working on a deal he's playing beach volleyball or looking for waves.