We find privately held companies that match your thesis, reach their owners directly, and bring you to the table before anyone else knows there is one.
Under an exclusive mandate, we map every company in your target market that fits — including the ones no database lists as "for sale", because they aren't. Then we contact their owners personally, qualify genuine openness, and hand you a warm, documented introduction.
That is where our job ends, deliberately. Valuation, negotiation, and execution stay with you and your advisors. We hold no inventory of deals, we represent no sellers, and nothing we learn in one search is ever used in another.
A Mittelstand owner doesn't answer a sequence — he answers a respectful phone call and a well-written letter, in German. A US founder answers a direct, honest note. We work both, personally, one owner at a time.
Our own research layer tracks succession signals, ownership structures, asset intensity, and filed financials across Austria and Germany — refreshed from primary sources, not bought from the directories every fund already has.
One buyer per search profile. Target lists are built for you and retired with the mandate — never resold, never recycled, never shown to a competing acquirer.
Clean scope keeps everyone honest: we originate and introduce, your deal team executes. No fee conflicts, no broker behavior, no pressure on either side of the table.
Platform and add-on searches in the lower mid-market, DACH and US — funds that want the strongest operator in a niche, not the one currently in a process.
Permanent capital with long horizons. We source quietly, at the pace a direct investment deserves.
Succession-driven searches — owners approaching handover, reached before the market hears about it.
Strategics running disciplined add-on programs — including US acquirers entering DACH, where the best companies never reach a banker's teaser.
We take on few mandates at a time, and we decline more than we accept. That's not positioning — it's how the work stays good.
Your company matched the search profile of one specific, well-capitalized acquirer — that's why we called or wrote. There is no list you're on and nothing is circulated. If the timing isn't right, we'll take that answer and leave it there. If you're curious, the conversation is confidential and leads directly to the decision-maker.
Ihr Unternehmen passt zum Suchprofil eines konkreten, kapitalstarken Käufers — deshalb haben wir angerufen oder geschrieben. Sie stehen auf keiner Liste, nichts wird gestreut. Wenn der Zeitpunkt nicht passt, akzeptieren wir das ohne Nachfassen. Wenn Sie neugierig sind: Das Gespräch bleibt vertraulich und führt direkt zum Entscheider.
Sector, target size, geography — that's enough for a first read. Every briefing is answered by a partner within two business days, including the ones we turn down.
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