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A8 Advisory

For Acquirers

Runabolt-onacquisitionprogramwithoutbuildingadealteam.

For conglomerates and scale-ups, regional or international, consolidating a category or acquiring proven technology and talent through acquisition, without a full-time corporate development function to do it.

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Independent buy-side advisory. We do the analysis; you make the decisions; a licensed firm executes.

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What we bring

Target mapping built on your thesis, not a list we already had.

We build the market map against your acquisition criteria, screen it down to the businesses worth your attention, and tell you what we find. You decide who to approach.

Diligence built around what actually breaks bolt-on deals.

Founder-dependency and key-person risk mapping, so you know before signing whether the business survives the owner's departure. Revenue-quality review, including whether a target's reported growth holds up under closer scrutiny, essential when the target is a tech company presenting metrics that may not reflect real, recognized revenue.

People & organization due diligence, led by Roula Akl.

Retention exposure, key-person concentration, and a read on the leadership team you are actually acquiring, not just the balance sheet. Roula also works on the seller side at Exit Builders. She is never engaged on both sides of the same transaction, and information does not cross between engagements.

A structured integration plan, built into the engagement from the start.

Not an afterthought after close. Systems, retention, and culture alignment planned before signing, not discovered after.

Engagement structure designed for a recurring program.

We work with acquirers running several deals a year, not just a single transaction; the cadence and capabilities are built for consolidation, not a one-off fee arrangement.

Who this is for

Group CEOs, Corporate Development Directors, and founder-CEOs making their first acquisitions, running category consolidation or a build-versus-buy capability decision, with a corp dev function that is thin, stretched across other responsibilities, or does not exist yet.

FAQ

No. We are built for the recurring bolt-on, several smaller deals a year, not a single large-cap transaction. That is a different service than what a Big 4 or investment bank process is priced and structured for.

We treat founder-dependency and revenue quality as named, scored categories, not general due diligence line items. Most integration failures trace back to one of those two, discovered too late.

No. We prepare the analysis, the valuation, and the materials you negotiate from. The negotiation is run by you or by a licensed M&A advisor. If you do not have one, we can introduce you to a firm in the relevant market, and we will tell you in writing beforehand if that introduction earns us a fee.

Yes. We are typically brought in to extend a thin internal function, not replace one. Scope is set with your team at the start of every engagement.

Every engagement runs under NDA before any target information is shared. Read our confidentiality commitment →

Retainer or fixed fee, scoped to the work. We charge for analysis and diligence whether or not you acquire anything, which means a buyer who assesses four targets and acquires none pays for four assessments. We do not charge a fee on completion and we do not take a percentage of transaction value.

Every engagement runs under NDA before a single number changes hands.

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