FOR CEOS EXECUTING A BUY-AND-BUILD STRATEGY  

Your Sector Is Consolidating.

Are You Leading It?

The Fastest CEOs Acted First.

The difference between acquirers who dominate their sectors and those who watch it happen is not capital or strategy. It is execution infrastructure. This is yours. 

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Mike Ferguson - Founder, Kelvin Lane Growth Partners

Former Head of M&A, William Grant & Sons · Cross-border deal execution, CDI Global · 15+ years buy-side M&A

"Found us three targets in the first month that we'd never have found through brokers and the first serious conversation happened within six weeks"

- CEO, PE-backed F&B business, UK  

The Infrastructure Problem Every Ambitious Acquirer Faces  

You know exactly what you want to build.

You have the capital. You have the appetite. You've made the decision, not the vague aspiration, the actual strategic commitment - to grow through acquisition.

The problem is not your ability to do deals.

The problem is finding the right businesses before your competitors do. Getting in front of owners who aren't actively selling. Keeping deals alive without the process consuming your management team. And making sure that when a deal reaches heads of terms i.e. it actually completes. 

  The Broker Trap  

  You're working from a broker mailing list that bears no relationship to your actual acquisition criteria.

 The Dead Pipeline

  A pipeline spreadsheet that nobody updates. The pipeline looks busy. Nothing is actually closing.

The Lost Deal

  The memory of a deal that fell apart three months ago and cost you four months of effort and board credibility.

That is not a strategy problem. It is an infrastructure problem. Infrastructure is fixable. Ten minutes from now you'll have the tools to start.  

 The Serial Acquirer's M&A Toolkit 

Four Templates. Four Problems. Fixed.  

Built from real acquisition programmes. Used in live deals. Available free - because a CEO who finds this useful is exactly the right person to work with. 

Template 1

Template 2

Template 3

Template 4

Origination Pipeline Tracker

Target Fit Scorecard

Pre-HOT Progression Tracker  

DD & Completion Tracker  

The Problem: You have no acquisition targets - or only what brokers choose to show you.

Track your entire target universe from first identification to first meeting. Score strategic fit, prioritise outreach, and manage every potential acquisition - on-market and off - in one place.

What you'll have: a live, prioritised pipeline that permanently replaces the broker mailing list.

The Problem: You're finding targets but they don't fit your actual strategy.

Score every target against your weighted acquisition criteria before you invest time, money, or management attention. Set your own weights. Fit calculates automatically. Verdict delivered instantly.

What you'll have: an objective, board-defensible scoring system that separates the right acquisitions from the convenient ones.

The Problem: Deals are reaching conversation stage but dying before Heads of Terms.

Every open commercial, legal, valuation, and structural point tracked and owned before heads of terms are issued. Owners assigned. Deadlines set. Nothing drifts. 

The tracker tells you exactly when you're ready to proceed.

What you'll have: no more deals dying from lost momentum or the creeping silence that kills transactions.

The Problem: Deals are completing the process but falling through at the finish line.

Every due diligence and completion workstream tracked in one place. Financial, legal, commercial, operational. Each with an owner, a deadline, a risk rating, and a live status. Completion readiness calculated automatically.

What you'll have: complete visibility. No last-minute deal-killers. No surprises at completion.

The Credentials Behind Every Template 

15

 Years of Experience  

  Finding deals others miss - across buy-side origination, execution, and integration.  

>150 Deals

Originated

>£400m Value

Originated

"We'd been trying to build an acquisition pipeline for eighteen months. Three broker relationships, two false starts, and nothing that fit what we were actually trying to build. Mike mapped our target universe in the first month, approached twelve businesses we'd never have found ourselves, and we had our first serious conversation within six weeks. The toolkit is what we use to manage every deal from that point forward."

CEO, PE-backed business, UK | Acquired multiple businesses using KLGP origination

This Is Built For One Specific CEO

You Are This CEO If: 

You Are Not This CEO If:

You are at the stage of exploring whether acquisitions might one day be part of your strategy. This toolkit won't help you and we're probably not the right fit.

If you've recognised yourself in every line of this page - the toolkit is free, takes ten minutes to set up, and solves a problem you've been carrying longer than you'd like to admit.

The ones who move first already know the answer.

The CEOs Who Win Their Sectors Don't Wait For the Right Deal to Appear.  

They build the machine that finds it. They approach businesses before they're for sale. They keep deals alive when momentum fades. They complete with confidence because they've managed every workstream properly.

The toolkit is the starting point. It's free. It takes ten minutes. And the CEOs who are moving fastest in your sector are already thinking this way.

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Set up time is minimal. Impact is immediate. Your pipeline starts today.

Built for Live Deals

Not a thought leadership PDF. The actual infrastructure we run in retained programmes. 

The ones who move first already know the answer.