Buyer landscape
Identify active serial acquirers, strategic buyers, funds, holding companies and other credible buyer classes relevant to the company.
For business owners
Understand the credible buyer landscape before you decide whom to approach.
Aperture researches active acquirers, public buy boxes, buyer credibility and the evidence a serious buyer is likely to test. The owner keeps control over whether anyone is contacted.
Owner research route
KNOW THE BUYERS. KNOW THE EVIDENCE GAPS. THEN DECIDE WHETHER TO GO TO MARKET.
Published acquisition criteria
Test sector, geography, scale, recurring revenue, ownership and other public buy-box factors against the business.
Buyer credibility
Review public evidence of transaction history, current acquisition intent, decision routes and other indicators relevant to the research question.
Exit evidence readiness
Identify unsupported claims, public contradictions, ownership, litigation, regulatory and other evidence issues before a sophisticated buyer does.
Seller-intent control
YOUR BUSINESS DOES NOT BECOME “FOR SALE” BECAUSE APERTURE RESEARCHES IT.
Aperture distinguishes a candidate from verified seller intent. Succession, restructuring, stress or distress can justify research but are not silently treated as a sale mandate. Confidential owner intent is not disclosed without authority.
Public process
Formal sale, owner statement, announced divestiture, authorised adviser marketing or a formal court-supervised process.
Verified strategic signal
Succession, retirement, strategic review or other credible evidence that requires further verification before calling it sale intent.
Off-market candidate
A business that may fit a buyer mandate but has no verified willingness to sell.
Owner products
START WITH ONE RESEARCH QUESTION, NOT A SALE MANDATE.
Seller Buyer-Landscape Sprint
US$1,500–US$4,000
Which credible buyers are active, what do they buy and how does the company fit their public acquisition criteria?
Exit Evidence Readiness Review
US$3,000–US$10,000+
What is a serious buyer likely to find, and which claims or records need strengthening before exposure?
Buyer Verification Briefs
Defined verification of selected potential buyers where the owner wants to understand credibility, strategy or public evidence before contact.
Acquisition Watch
US$1,500–US$5,000/month
Monitor relevant buyers, funds, acquisitions and changed buy boxes over time.
No success-fee incentive
THE RESEARCH FEE IS EARNED WHETHER YOU SELL OR WALK AWAY.
Aperture does not take a percentage of the purchase price, a closing commission or a success fee. We do not negotiate the transaction or represent the owner in a sale.
You control contact.
If you later want a buyer approached, Aperture first applies confidentiality, conflict, jurisdiction and licensing controls. Where an introduction could create intermediary risk, the research and contact intelligence are delivered to you and you or your licensed advisers make contact directly.
Start privately
Send the non-confidential owner question first.
You can begin by telling us what the business does, the relevant geography, the size band if you wish to share it, the owner decision and whether you want to understand buyers before any contact is made.