Buy and Build – Accelerate Your Strategy

If, like most clients of ours, you have a vision for buy and build, then we’re confident we are the right partner for you. The challenge you face is varied, but mainly around finding enough high quality businesses to ensure that you have confidence that progress will be made. In our opinion, for every deal you make, you need to speak to about 20 businesses.

You Have to Start Off-Market

If you choose only to speak to companies for sale, and your focus is a sector, and perhaps a region too, then you will find it hard to realise a single acquisition, let along several. In time, too, you will become frustrated with brokers and advisors inflating value and leveraging your offers for other buyers. Therefore, to find a good number of interested sellers, you need to search off-market. And that involves research, analysis and outreach to business owners.

Building Your Funnel

Working with Unloq means you have a partner that is a specialist in helping deliver buy and build strategies. We access the highest quality business data and have the best methods of analysing that data to find you the best quality businesses that fit your criteria. Size, profit, location, markets, end-customers, facilities, management team and culture are all elements we consider for you as we build your target list.

Maximising Every Single Opportunity

We have refined and optimised the outreach process. We speak to, on average, 50% of target company owners within the first six months and therefore give our client a steady stream of introductions to owners of high quality businesses who would be interested in exploring disposal. Every client has the opportunity to review every business first, and once you give us the green light, we start connecting.

Giving You the Space to Focus

Working with Unloq not only delivers a steady stream of high quality opportunities, but also releases you to focus on your plans. You have more time to evaluate opportunities, compare and contrast potential acquisitions and choose carefully the ones you would like to progress. From then, we are here to help, but you can get stuck into the due diligence and the post-completion runway and planning, knowing we’re working on deal two, three and four for you.

Achieve Your Buy and Build Goals

Whether you’re an individual investor or a company looking to create a significant impact into an industry, Unloq brings the expertise, tools, and network you need to execute a successful buy-and-build strategy. With a proven track record and a commitment to building the right pipeline for you, Unloq is dedicated to helping you achieve extraordinary growth and unlock the full potential of your acquisition portfolio. Let’s connect.

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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UK & Europe Office
Third Floor
Reading Bridge House
Reading
RG1 8PR

Contact: +44 (0) 1962 609 000

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Barangaroo
NSW 2000
Australia

Contact: +61 (0) 417 671 854