We run sell side mandates for owner operated businesses across Canada. When one matches what you acquire, you hear from us the day it goes live. When nothing matches, you hear nothing at all.
You do the first one. After that the work is on our side of the table until there is something worth your time. Point at a step.
What kind of buyer you are, your name and an address. What you buy is described in your workspace, on one bar you can change the day your mandate changes.
A seller has one deal and wants to know how far along it is, so that side is a timeline. You have several at once and want to know where each one stands, so this side is a pipeline.
Anonymous profiles our team has matched to your criteria. A region, an industry, two bands of figures and a reference number.
Yours to keep and annotate. If a seller pulls the business, it stays here with a label rather than quietly becoming a dead link.
You have raised your hand. Five steps, each of them a person doing something, and you can see which one it is sitting at.
Approved, under NDA, in process. Six milestones from the signed NDA to diligence, with the dates filled in by us.
Every business we represent arrives like this to begin with. It is enough to tell you whether it is worth your time, and not enough to work out whose business it is.
The name, the financial statements and the customer detail unlock after you sign an NDA and the owner approves you by name. That order is not negotiable, and it is the reason owners are willing to be on this site at all.
The business name, the financial statements and the customer breakdown unlock after an NDA and the owner's approval.
Matching, qualification and the owner’s approval are done by people. Every one of those steps has a state on screen, so the work is visible while it is happening rather than after.
Six milestones from the signed NDA to diligence. They are fixed by the process, so only the dates vary, and the dates are filled in by us as they happen.
The first of those steps is where we ask about funding, what you have bought before, and what you would want the owner to do after closing. It is asked once, per buyer rather than per deal, and it is asked then rather than at registration because it is the answer an owner needs before their name is given to anybody.
Owner operated companies across Canada, most of them between $2M and $30M in revenue. That shape suits some buyers more than others.
Funds looking for a platform in a fragmented trade, or an add-on for one they already hold.
Operating companies buying capacity, a capability or a region they would otherwise have to build.
An operator with committed capital behind them, looking for one business to run.
Buyers who intend to hold rather than to exit, which is often what an owner selling their life’s work wants to hear.
Both are decisions rather than gaps, and both are easier to hear now than to discover in a month.
Nothing carries a business name until an NDA is signed and the owner has approved you individually. Our sellers are owner operators who in most cases have not told their staff or their customers. Browse shows you what our team has matched to you, so an empty Browse is the model working rather than a fault.
Email and the phone carry the conversation. A message tab would hand our team an inbox they can never stop watching, and a buyer waiting on a reply in it would have no idea whether anyone was there. You get a named person instead.
What kind of buyer you are, your name, and an address to reach you at. What you buy is described inside, on a bar you can change the day your mandate does.
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