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A senior acquisition team inside your company, without the full-time headcount.
You have the growth thesis. You don’t have the deal team.
Your company has identified acquisition as a path to growth. Building an internal corporate development function means a senior hire, a long ramp, and years of network-building, with no guarantee it works. Investment banks price for much larger transactions.
Mid-size companies solved the same problem in finance a generation ago with the fractional CFO: senior expertise without the full-time hire. Fractional Corporate Development applies that model to acquisitions.
We become your corporate development department.
Business Transfers & Strategies embeds inside your organization as your dedicated M&A team. We work under your brand and from your email domain. Owners who hear from us hear from your company, and we work as an extension of your team. Everything that goes out under your name is yours to see: some clients review every piece, others leave it to us entirely.
Three modes of work. The mix fits your team.
We build and run your acquisition pipeline: target identification, direct outreach to owners of companies that are not on the market, owner conversations, and weekly pipeline reporting to your leadership team.
More than two decades of buy-side transaction experience applied to every opportunity: financial modeling, valuation guidance, deal-document review, and due-diligence coordination. When you need an attorney, lender, or CPA who knows this deal size, we make the introduction directly.
Working alongside us builds the skill set inside your team. We formalize it where it helps, with education and training in M&A fundamentals, target evaluation, and due diligence execution, at whatever depth your team wants.
The hire takes a year to ramp. The bank is built for bigger deals.
Companies that decide to grow through acquisition have three options.
Who this is built for.
Three things tell us the fit is right.
Independently owned operating companies, $10M–$50M revenue. Family-owned, founder-led, or multi-generational, typically with decades of operating history.
Manufacturing, distribution, B2B services, and specialty trades are where our deal history runs deepest. Our specialty is the process of buying businesses, not any one sector.
Acquisition as an ongoing growth strategy rather than a one-time search. These are companies looking past organic growth to the step-change a good acquisition delivers: revenue, a book of business, an experienced team, new capabilities, product lines, geographies, or proprietary systems. Ready to make acquisition a standing capability of the business.
The model only works if your advisor has no other agenda.
We represent buyers. Only buyers. We have never taken a listing in more than two decades of operation, so our search is never steered toward our own inventory. Our retainer model is designed so our advice doesn’t ride on any single closing: when the right answer is to walk away from a deal, we say so.
We work inside your company, under your name. Sustained, professional outreach under your brand builds your standing as a serious acquirer in your industry. That reputation belongs to your company and stays with you after the engagement ends.
Thousands of owner conversations and hundreds of deal processes have built judgment that technology and junior teams can’t shortcut. Most acquirers see a handful of deals in a working lifetime. We have run hundreds, and the judgment shows up where it matters: knowing which owner is actually ready to sell, which valuation gap will close, and which diligence finding should end the conversation. That only comes from repetition at scale.
Kickoff to live pipeline in one quarter.
Every engagement begins with a structured 90-day program. By the end of the first quarter you have a defined acquisition thesis, a live target list, and active outreach in market.
Strategy sessions define your acquisition criteria. We set up email, phone, and outreach materials under your brand and build the target universe. Initial outreach begins.
Full outreach campaigns run under your brand. We refine the target list against market response and set the review cadence you want; most clients choose a weekly pipeline check-in. That, plus decisions as deals develop, is what the engagement asks of your time. We run everything else.
The pipeline is live, with early conversations developing and financial modeling beginning as opportunities qualify. Optional education and training for your management team begins here.
Find out whether the model fits your company.
A 30-minute conversation covers your acquisition goals and whether the fit works on both sides. Every engagement is built around the client’s search, and the fee structure follows from it. We walk you through both on the first call.
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