Done-For-You Business Acquisition
Your Next Acquisition.
Sourced.
Negotiated.
Closed.
We source, negotiate, and close real acquisitions on your behalf. You focus on where you're going. We handle every stage of the deal.
01 . The Problem
Buying Is Proven.
Executing Is A Job.
Buying a business is a proven route to growth. Executing a deal is a full-time job. Deals stall, sellers go quiet, and structures get complicated at exactly the moment they need to get simple. Most self-managed acquisitions die somewhere in the middle, not because the buyer was wrong, but because nobody had the hours to keep the deal moving.
02 . The Two Doors
Two Ways In. One Conversation.
Run the deal for you, or teach you to run it yourself. The call sorts the route.
Done For You
Acquisition As A Service
You fund it. My partners and I run it. Off-market sourcing, evaluation, structuring, negotiation, due diligence management, completion, and early integration support.
One point of accountability, from brief to keys in hand.
Book A CallDone With You
Dealmaker Mentoring
For owners and operators who want to become the dealmaker. Work directly with Rob through your first acquisition: live deal reviews, structuring guidance, negotiation preparation, and accountability through to close.
You learn it by doing it, with someone who has done it.
Book A Call03 . How It Works
Brief To Keys. Six Stages.
Discovery
We define the buy-box: sector, size, geography, and deal structure. Clear criteria before any outreach.
Off-Market Sourcing
Direct outreach to owners before they reach market. No auctions. No bidding wars.
Evaluation
Financial and commercial assessment. We tell you what to pursue, and what to walk away from.
Structuring And Negotiation
Price, terms, vendor financing, deferred consideration. Structures that work for both sides.
Due Diligence To Completion
Coordination of the financial, legal, and commercial workstreams, through to signing.
Handover And Early Support
We do not disappear at completion. Support through the first stretch of ownership.
Engagements run month to month. No lock-ins. If the pipeline is not producing, you stop paying.
04 . Who It's For
Built For Buyers Who Are Ready.
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Buyers with capital ready to deploy, and no time to run a deal process themselves.
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Owners bolting on to an existing business.
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Members of a leading acquisition community, ready to move from learning to closing.
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Buyers stalled mid-deal, who need the process rescued and driven to a close.
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Group builders who need a long-term acquisition partner, not a one-off transaction.
Not A Fit
This is not a no-money-down scheme, and it is not for browsers. Clients fund their own acquisitions. We bring the execution.
05 . About Rob
The Person Closing It.
Rob Richmond has spent years inside small business M&A, closing his own deals and, more tellingly, getting other people's deals across the line. He mentors first-time acquirers through a leading acquisition community, and builds acquisition-led groups with his partners at Synergy Groups.
I am better at closing deals than talking about closing deals. That is what you are hiring.
06 . The Bigger Picture
Acquire. List. Group.
One ladder, from your first acquisition to a listed group. This site is the first rung.
Acquire.
We source, negotiate, and close acquisitions on your behalf, or mentor you through your own.
You Are HereList.
Direct listing as a growth platform rather than an exit, delivered with our listing partners.
robrichmond.comGroup.
Acquisition-led group building with my partners, compounding value beyond any single company.
synergy-groups.com07 . Engagement
Aligned, Or It Does Not Work.
A retained monthly engagement covers the work of running your pipeline. A success fee on completion means we are paid properly when a deal closes. Your outcome and our incentive point the same way.
Month to month. No lock-ins. The first conversation is free.
Numbers depend on your buy-box and the shape of the mandate, so we talk them through on the call rather than guess at them here.