Grow Rapidly with Bolt On Acquisitions

Are you looking to expand your market reach, enhance capabilities, or strengthen your position within your industry? Bolt-on acquisitions provide a fast-track growth strategy by integrating businesses that align seamlessly with your existing operations. With Unloq, you can accelerate and optimise this process, making growth more effective and efficient.

Supporting Your Bolt On Strategy

There are numerous reasons to grow by bolting on other companies:

  • Looking to expand your presence, identifying companies in adjacent territories or similar markets to broaden your reach
  • Wanting to enhance your products or services, finding complementary businesses that add value to your offerings and profitability to your bottom line
  • Focusing on specialisation or increasing talent, we source high-growth companies within your sector to bring in the expertise you need
  • Aiming for synergy as a goal, you can find businesses that can provide consolidation gains, maximising efficiency across your operations

Unloq is experienced with complex acquisition briefs, ensuring the right fit for your unique growth strategy.

Strategic Market Analysis

Our process begins with translating your acquisition criteria into a targeted list of prospects. This starts with an objectives meeting, followed by a deep dive into our extensive local, national, and international data sources. If the ideal company exists, we will find it.

Identifying Quality & Building a Pipeline

The companies we help our clients acquire continue to thrive, either as independent entities or as part of larger, profitable groups. We reduce bolt on acquisition risks by finding the best possible matches, providing you with a robust selection of qualified targets.

Maintaining momentum with bolt-on acquisitions requires careful timing and pipeline management. From origination to negotiation, due diligence, completion, and integration, we support you in keeping a steady pipeline, so your growth doesn’t stall if a deal falls through.

Precise Targeting

Deep research identifies the best companies

Fast Start

Talk to businesses within weeks, not months

More Choice

Our off-market skill yields more conversations

Shorter Time to Synergy

More choice means strong growth at lower risk

Cross-Border Reach

Explore regions without presence before committing

Minimal Disruption

We originate, so you focus on execution

If You Want Ideal Flow Let’s Talk

There is only so much you can tell from reviewing our website, the best way to explore is to have a short meeting with one of our team.

Unloq the Numbers

47%

On average 40%
of business owners
we contact are
Interested in meeting

4+

For 90%+ market
data coverage
you need at least
four different sources

1:5

For every 1
target approached
we analyse at least
5 companies

2%

Only 2% of
companies are
for sale at
any one time

100%

All the companies
acquired through us
are still trading or
part of a successful group

85%

Over 85% of the
transactions we
completed were
off market

4x

The fixed cost
of in-house
origination is
4 times higher

15+

We are currently originating
in over 15 countries
for cross-border
work for clients

16%

Over a sixth of
introductions
result in a
written offer

20

20 Introductions
with the right businesses
will lead to a great
fitting acquisition

Unloq: White Papers

BUSINESS DATA FOR M&A: WHY THERE IS NO SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH

There are a wide number of business data suppliers all claiming to have the best and most comprehensive business data, promising a turn-key solution to origination. In this white paper we explore whether this is fact or fiction. Is it…

WHY ACQUISITIONS CONTINUE TO FALL SHORT OF EXPECTATIONS: THE STRATEGIC PATH TO JOINING THE 70%

70% of mergers now succeed in creating value, a dramatic turnaround attributed to more disciplined dealmaking and post-merger integration. However, this success is not uniform across all major markets.

THE POWER OF CHOICE: WHY OPTIONALITY DRIVES M&A SUCCESS

In merger and acquisition strategy, one factor separates successful acquirers from those who struggle: choice. Not the illusion of choice that comes from reviewing hundreds of unsuitable opportunities, but genuine optionality: the ability to evaluate multiple high-quality targets and select…

THE OFF-MARKET ADVANTAGE: NAVIGATING COMPETITION IN THE CROWDED M&A MARKET

The mergers and acquisitions market finds itself in a peculiar state. Global private equity dry powder reached record levels in 2024, peaking at $2.62 trillion mid-year, indicating significant undeployed capital across the industry. So the paradox is that with all…

THE HIDDEN COST OF IN-HOUSE DEAL ORIGINATION: A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

When growth-hungry acquirers decide to pursue acquisitions, they face a critical choice: build an in-house deal origination capability or partner with a specialist. On the surface, the in-house route appears attractive: who knows your business better than your own team?

Regional and Cross-Border Deal Makers

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Australia

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