Business Acquisition — Active

Buy a privately held business on evidence, not on a summary spreadsheet

Run a buy-side business acquisition from sourcing to post-close: a structured diligence checklist, quality-of-earnings control, evidence-linked underwriting, committee approvals, closing conditions and portfolio-company monitoring.

Who it serves

Independent sponsorsPrivate-equity firmsFamily officesSearch fundsHolding companiesCorporate-development teamsLendersProfessional advisers

What it fixes

Seller numbers that cannot be traced

Adjusted EBITDA arrives as a single figure. Here every adjustment carries its own period, direction, classification and source, and seller claims are never blended into a verified figure.

Diligence spread across folders and inboxes

A reusable checklist of 125 requirements across corporate, financial, tax, legal, commercial, technology and closing areas, each with an owner, a due date and the exact document version behind it.

Committee papers without provenance

Every material statement in the memo is marked as an accepted sourced fact, a deterministic calculation, a manual assumption, reviewer judgement or missing information.

Gaps that quietly become zeros

A missing figure is shown as Not provided. A calculation that lacks an input is not produced at all, and the exact inputs still needed are listed.

The complete workflow

  1. 01

    Sourcing and screening

    Record the target, structure, seller type and stage, with a written reason for every stage change.

  2. 02

    NDA and information

    Track what was requested, what arrived, and which version each fact came from.

  3. 03

    Indication and letter of intent

    Hold exclusivity dates, proposed price and consideration structure in one place.

  4. 04

    Confirmatory diligence

    Checklist, exceptions, counterparty requests and quality-of-earnings review run together.

  5. 05

    Investment committee

    A frozen underwriting snapshot and a submitted memo, with disclosed missing information.

  6. 06

    Financing, signing and closing

    Closing conditions with named blockers, and a versioned closing package with a content hash.

  7. 07

    Post-close

    Convert the closed transaction into a monitored portfolio company without losing the transaction record.

The modules

Quality-of-earnings control

Owner compensation, related-party items, one-time income and expense, run-rate savings and accounting-policy changes, each classified as seller-proposed, buyer-proposed or verified, with a reported-to-normalized EBITDA bridge.

Evidence-linked underwriting

Deterministic, versioned calculations for enterprise value, entry multiples, sources and uses, leverage, debt service, exit equity, MOIC and IRR, with the formula and inputs on display.

Committee and closing workflow

Named approvers, sequential or parallel order, conditional approvals and append-only decisions. Material changes raise re-review without erasing an earlier decision.

Portfolio-company monitoring

Approved reporting periods compared against the acquisition underwriting, the approved budget, the prior period and the comparable prior year.

Limitations we state plainly

  • External malware scanning and document text recognition are not connected. Real customer documents stay quarantined and cannot be downloaded, processed, accepted as evidence, shared or exported. Confidential-document readiness is not claimed.
  • Synthetic demonstration data — not externally malware-scanned and not suitable for an investment decision.
  • Nothing produced here is legal, tax, accounting or investment advice, and no outcome, valuation or completeness of diligence is guaranteed.
  • Paid subscriptions are not switched on; there is no public checkout.