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Strategic Business Acquisitions
Acquiring the right business can accelerate growth, provide access to new markets, customers and capabilities, and create opportunities that may take significantly longer to achieve organically.
We work with business owners and management teams to understand their strategic objectives, define clear acquisition criteria and identify opportunities that have the potential to create long-term value.
From developing the acquisition strategy and identifying potential targets through to negotiation, funding and completion, our Corporate Finance Partners provide experienced advice throughout the process.
How We Help
Acquisition Strategy
We work with you to define your acquisition objectives, investment criteria and strategic priorities, creating a focused approach to identifying businesses that could accelerate your growth and create long-term value.
Target Identification
We research and identify potential acquisition targets aligned with your criteria, using market intelligence, sector research and direct approaches to uncover both marketed and off-market opportunities.
Financial & Commercial Analysis
We assess potential targets to understand financial performance, commercial strengths, risks and growth potential, helping you make informed decisions before progressing an opportunity.
Deal Structuring & Funding
We help consider the appropriate structure for an acquisition and, where funding is required, support you in identifying and approaching potential debt, equity and alternative funding sources.
Negotiation
Our Corporate Finance Partners support negotiations on value, structure and key commercial terms, helping you evaluate proposals and reach an agreement aligned with your acquisition objectives.
Due Diligence & Completion
We help coordinate the due diligence process alongside your legal, financial and other professional advisers, identifying issues, maintaining momentum and supporting the transaction through to completion.
Funding Your Acquisition
The right funding structure can be an important part of a successful acquisition. We work with you to understand the funding requirement, consider the appropriate mix of debt, equity and other sources of capital, and support discussions with potential funders.
Our Corporate Finance Partners can help you consider how the acquisition structure, funding requirement and future cash flows work together, while coordinating with funders and other professional advisers throughout the process.
Strategic Acquisition Opportunities
Not every acquisition starts with a business openly being offered for sale. We work with acquirers to identify opportunities that align with their strategic objectives, including businesses that may not currently be on the market.
Targeted Acquisitions
If you have a clear strategic objective, we can research the market, identify businesses that match your acquisition criteria and make confidential approaches to potential targets on your behalf.
Buy & Build
For businesses pursuing a broader growth strategy, we can support a programme of acquisitions designed to expand market share, enter new markets, add capabilities or build scale over time.
Opportunistic Acquisitions
Where an acquisition opportunity has already been identified, we can help assess the strategic and commercial rationale, consider valuation and deal structure, and support negotiations through to completion.
Buy & Build Acquisition Strategy
A Buy & Build strategy can accelerate growth by using acquisitions to build scale, expand into new markets, add complementary capabilities or strengthen an existing market position.
We work with business owners, management teams and investors to develop clear acquisition criteria, research and identify potential targets, and build a pipeline of opportunities aligned with the wider growth strategy.
Our Corporate Finance Partners can then support individual acquisitions from initial approach and assessment through valuation, negotiation, funding and completion, providing continuity across a programme of transactions.
Whether you are considering your first strategic acquisition or building a longer-term acquisition programme, we can help turn your growth strategy into a focused and executable acquisition plan.
Assessing an Acquisition Through the Buyer Lens
Buying a business is about more than agreeing a valuation. Understanding the quality of the business you are acquiring, the risks you are taking on and where future value could be created is critical to making the right acquisition decision.
We use the Logros Buyer Lens to help assess an opportunity from an acquirer’s perspective—considering financial performance, revenue quality, management, market position, growth potential, scalability and risk.
This buyer-led approach helps you challenge assumptions, identify potential concerns and understand where the strategic value of an acquisition may lie before committing to a transaction.
Ready to Make Your Next Acquisition?
Whether you have already identified an opportunity or are looking for the right business to acquire, our Corporate Finance Partners can help you develop your acquisition strategy, identify potential targets and support you through the transaction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Logros provides partner-led Corporate Finance advice throughout the acquisition process. We can help develop your acquisition strategy, define criteria, identify potential targets, assess opportunities, support negotiations and funding, coordinate due diligence and help progress the transaction through to completion.
Yes. We can research potential acquisition targets that fit your strategic and financial criteria and make confidential approaches to business owners. This can help identify off-market opportunities as well as businesses already considering a sale.
We start by understanding your strategic objectives and developing clear acquisition criteria. This may include sector, geography, size, profitability, capabilities, customers and strategic fit. We then use research, market intelligence and our network to identify and prioritise potential targets.
Yes. We can help develop a Buy & Build strategy, establish acquisition criteria, identify and approach potential targets and support individual transactions. This allows businesses and investors to build a structured acquisition pipeline rather than considering opportunities in isolation.
We can help assess the funding requirement and support discussions with potential debt, equity and alternative funding providers. The appropriate funding structure will depend on the acquisition, the buyer, available cash flows and the wider transaction structure.
We consider both the financial and commercial characteristics of the target, including financial performance, revenue quality, management, market position, growth potential, scalability and risk. Our Logros Buyer Lens provides a structured buyer-led approach to assessing an opportunity.
Yes. You do not need to appoint us at the beginning of your acquisition search. If you have already identified a target, we can help assess the opportunity, consider valuation and deal structure, support negotiations and funding, coordinate due diligence and help progress the transaction.
There is no standard timeframe. The process depends on factors including whether a target has already been identified, the complexity of the transaction, funding, due diligence and negotiations. We work with you and your other professional advisers to maintain momentum and help manage the acquisition through each stage.