For buyers

Buying businesses? Buy better.

Whatever you're building, start here. Tell us your goals, and in two minutes see how many businesses already fit, who you're up against for them, and what your group could be worth.

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A deal team of three working through an acquisition in a glass meeting room above the City of London, one reading an orange folder

308,209

Companies on the platform

Every active private company across our segments, refreshed monthly.

1,180

Acquisitions in two years

UK deals in our segments, matched to acquirer and target.

5,498

Buyers classed

Strategic and financial, ranked by what they have paid.

£2BN+

Transacted

100+ deals across the deal team's careers, on both sides of the table. Largest exit £1.5BN.

Where our deal team has bought, built and sold

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Why buyers work with us

Build a bigger, more valuable group.

We work with your team to find the right businesses, get more of the deals done, and make each one add to what the group is worth.

01

Find great companies

Every founder-owned business that fits what you buy, matched to your thesis and ranked by how likely it is to sell.

02

Diligence them fast

A first read of every target before you spend on diligence, and owners prepared before it starts, so you decide faster and fewer deals fall over.

03

Create the value

What counts is the group's value when you've finished. We plan where to buy first, what to pay, and which businesses lift the multiple, then bed each one in.

Running a fund? We help funds deliver better returns: the right businesses found early, and the right buyers lined up when it's time to sell.

How it works

From first map to a better group.

01

Your market, mapped

Every business that fits, who else is buying them, and what your group could be worth. Thirty minutes.

02

Your build plan

Where to buy first, what each target is worth to you, and the order that lifts value most. The Acquisition Afternoon.

03

Founders who want to talk

We approach the owners with you, and get them ready to talk.

04

Deals done, value built

Each deal through to completion, and a hundred-day plan, so the group is worth more at exit.

Track record

We've built groups like this.

We've bought businesses for private equity firms and strategic buyers, and built groups through acquisition, then sold them.

Business services group · Global

£600m → £1.5bn

Value, bought to sold

Nearly 50 acquisitions turned it into a global group, then it sold to private equity.

We helped build and sell it

Digital services group · Europe

£89m → £195m

Revenue, in three years

Revenue more than doubled in three years, about 30% a year, through organic growth and three acquisitions.

We helped build it

Your group

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Your group, in three years

The right businesses, bought well, built into a group worth more when you sell it.

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Plan the group. Then buy it.

Thirty minutes: your market mapped, where to buy first, and what the finished group could be worth. Nothing reaches a founder without your say.

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