01 / Buy-side diligence and analysis

Yourcorporatedevelopmentfunction,withouttheheadcount.

We map the market, run the numbers, and diligence the two things that actually kill acquisitions: founder dependency and revenue quality. You approach who you choose and you decide the terms. When a deal closes, we install the finance function the business needs from day one of ownership.

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Independent buy-side transaction advisory and standing financial governance, for acquirers, funds and family capital.

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02 / Who we work with

01Strategic acquirers

Building a bolt-on acquisition strategy?

You run corporate development alongside your day job, not as a full-time function. We build the target map, run the diligence that decides whether a business survives its owner leaving, and plan the integration before you sign. You make the approach and the call.

For Acquirers

02Funds and institutions

Deploying institutional capital into operating businesses?

Good targets are scarcer than the capital chasing them, and owner-managed books rarely survive a first look. We diligence to institutional standard and tell you which businesses will hold up, before you spend three months finding out.

For Investors

03Post-close owners

Just closed a deal, or running a business without a CFO?

Whether the ownership changed last month or the business has simply outgrown its bookkeeper, we install the financial governance a bank, investor, or future buyer will expect, with a defined plan to hand it back to your own team when you're ready.

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04Family capital

Family office moving capital into direct ownership?

We help transition capital into permanent, operating assets, rather than fund allocations alone. This is a private conversation, not a pitch.

A word on how we work with family capital

03 / Why A8 exists

We see prepared businesses, so we know what unprepared looks like.

A8 Advisory works alongside Exit Builders, the sell-side practice that spends every day getting founders and owners transaction-ready. That gives us an unusually calibrated view of which businesses will survive diligence and which will fall apart in it.

Sellers decide how and when they go to market. We are simply better informed when they do.

04 / What we do differently

Calibrated by the other side of the table.

Our sister practice prepares businesses for transactions. We know what a clean set of books looks like, what an owner-dependent business looks like underneath the presentation, and which problems are fixable before they cost you three months of diligence.

Diligence on the two things that actually kill acquisitions.

Over-reliance on a departing owner or founder, and revenue that doesn't hold up once someone looks closely. We treat both as named, structured diligence categories, not general line items.

We report to you, not to portfolio management.

Our engagement lines run to you, the acquirer or the fund, never diluted through a portfolio-management layer with its own incentives.

Built to end.

Every engagement, from a single deal to a standing CFO retainer, has a defined path to your own team taking it over. Our success is your independence.

Diligence is a reading exercise before it is a numbers exercise.

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05 / Track record

We measure our success by the quality of the decisions our clients make and the finance functions we leave behind. Confidentiality means we do not publish client names or deal-specific figures. Our work spans two recurring mandates: target analysis and diligence for acquirers building through acquisition, and day-one financial governance for newly acquired and multi-entity businesses.

We do the work. You make the decisions. A licensed firm closes the deal.

We build the analysis, the valuation, and the diligence you act on. You decide which businesses to approach and on what terms. When a transaction needs a licensed M&A advisor, you appoint your own or we introduce a firm in the relevant market, and we tell you in writing beforehand if that introduction earns us a fee.

We do not negotiate on your behalf and we do not charge a fee on completion. We charge for the work, whether or not you acquire anything.

Confidentiality

Every engagement runs under NDA before a single number changes hands. We do not publish client lists, disclose relationships, or signal anything to a seller's market, a fund's LPs, or a family's peers.

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