A buy-side mandate is the engagement where we work for you. We source acquisitions off-market inside buying groups and franchise systems, where the operators you want are concentrated and not for sale in public. The work is built around how you buy.
Deal-flow access is a look. A mandate is representation. When you retain us, we are your advocate, we run the search on your thesis, and we do not also represent the seller on a deal we are sourcing for you.
Our edge is origination inside the network. The businesses that fit your thesis are often held inside a buying group or a franchise system, by owners who are not publicly for sale and who transact through people they trust. That is where we already are.
Sector, size, structure, geography, and what a good acquisition looks like for you. We scope the mandate to a defined target and a defined network focus.
We turn the relevant networks into a known target list rather than a cold-call list. Inside a closed system, the universe of fitting operators is knowable.
We approach owners directly, often before they have decided to sell, through relationships already inside the network. Most of these owners never run a public process.
We qualify for fit, willingness, and whether the business actually transfers, then carry valuation, structure, and the owner relationship through to a signed letter.
Transfer approval, right of first refusal, supplier and rebate contracts, network standing. We know each system, so the path that stops outsiders does not stop you.
Through to ownership, with the network intact and the relationships that make the business work carried across the table.
Every kind of buyer needs something different from a sourcing engagement. Choose the one that fits.
We point the search at networks where owner transitions are already forming, surface durable, cash-generative operators that fit an operate-and-hold profile, and shepherd the owner approach and the network approvals that are hard to navigate as a solo searcher.
Captive networks are concentrations of fragmented operators, which is the supply a buy-and-build needs. We run programmatic add-on origination inside a network, feed a thesis-fit pipeline, and clear the franchisor or group approval that gates every transfer.
We map and approach the specific operators inside a network that match your strategic rationale, run the process quietly, and manage the network-specific transfer terms so the acquisition lands cleanly into the company.
Inside-network owners often prefer a buyer who will steward the business and the relationships, which aligns with a long hold. We source operators that fit that profile and run the relationship-led process these deals require.
We source a proprietary opportunity inside a network and run it on your behalf, so you take an off-market deal with a clear story to your capital partners, with the network-approval path mapped before you commit.
We know which owners in your system are nearing a transition and how the franchisor handles transfers, so we can source within your own network and clear the approval you already understand.
The operators every one of these buyers wants tend to sit inside a buying group or a franchise system. They are fragmented, cash-generative, and rarely for sale in public, and they transact through trusted intermediaries.
That makes a closed network the right hunting ground for a single-platform search and a programmatic roll-up alike. We are already inside it, which is why we can originate off-market rather than bid in auctions.
We take a small number of buy-side mandates at a time, so each one gets real origination effort rather than a name on a list. A mandate is scoped to a defined thesis and a defined network focus, with terms set at the outset.
If you are not ready to retain a mandate, deal-flow access is the lighter path. Register your criteria and you are in the pool we call when a transition fits, with no retainer and no exclusivity.
Tell us your thesis and the networks you want into. We will scope what a mandate would look like, and whether deal-flow access is the better place to start.
Confidential. Mandates are scoped and quoted before any work begins.