Free for acquirers
Find acquisition targets for free.
Create a buyer account, define your acquisition mandates, and receive anonymized local and cross-border SME targets that fit. MergerMatch is global, confidential, and free for buyer target discovery. It charges no buyer subscription, lead, matching, or success fee. Buyers remain responsible for verification and diligence before proceeding.
Inside MergerMatch
Turn your acquisition thesis into a live mandate.
These are the fields buyers complete in the MergerMatch app. Create separate mandates for different strategies, activate the searches you want monitored, and pause them when priorities change.
- 01Define the industries, countries, financial range, and ownership preference.
- 02Keep the mandate active while MergerMatch checks new seller opportunities.
- 03Receive an anonymized match, then decide whether to reveal the seller contact and reach out.
Example only
Buyer criteria
- Mandate name
- UK healthcare buy-and-build
- Industries
- Healthcare Services
- Geographies
- United Kingdom, Ireland
- Currency
- GBP
- Target revenue
- £2m to £40m
- Target EBITDA
- £1m to £8m
- Maximum enterprise value
- £25m
- Control preference
- Control / majority
Thesis / notes
Recurring healthcare services with management depth. Exclude single-site clinical practices and property-led models.
Mandate matching
Less inbound noise, more mandate fit.
MergerMatch does not ask you to browse a public marketplace. It routes anonymized opportunities to the acquirers whose criteria match the seller profile.
One or more industry categories
One or more acquisition countries
Target revenue and EBITDA ranges
Maximum enterprise value and control preference
Global mandate design
Search one market, one region, or across borders.
MergerMatch can route private company opportunities across geographic mandates, but wider is useful only when your team can act. Keep each search specific enough for a seller to understand the fit.
Local mandate
Define one country or operating market when management presence, licensing, or integration capacity makes location a hard boundary.
Regional mandate
Group countries only when the sector, size, ownership, capital, and approval criteria genuinely remain the same across them.
Cross-border mandate
State where the buyer is based, where it can acquire, and what legal, financing, management, or integration work still needs confirmation.
Global mandate
Use worldwide coverage only when the buyer can assess and execute across regions. Broad geography should not replace a specific acquisition thesis.
Opportunity quality signals
Relevant acquisition leads, not investment recommendations.
Matching narrows the search to seller opportunities that fit your registered mandate. The buyer remains responsible for screening, diligence, valuation, financing, and the decision to proceed.
Seller-originated
An owner or authorised broker creates the opportunity instead of the buyer scraping a public directory.
Mandate matched
The profile is routed using industry, geography, deal size, and control or minority structure.
Anonymized first
The buyer can judge basic fit without the seller placing its identity into a searchable marketplace.
Diligence still required
A match is an acquisition lead, not an investment recommendation or a guarantee about quality, performance, or completion.
Mandate examples
Start with a mandate that can match.
These are mandate structures, not current businesses for sale. Use one as a starting point, then replace every broad phrase with criteria your team can actually approve.
Platform acquisition
One established company in a named sector and region, with a defined revenue or EBITDA range, control requirement, funding path, and post-close operating plan.
Add-on acquisition
A target that extends an existing company by geography, capability, product, customer base, or supply chain, within a size range the current platform can integrate.
Strategic adjacency
A business that creates a specific commercial advantage such as market entry, distribution, licences, intellectual property, talent, or customer access.
Operator-led succession
One profitable owner-led business where location, operating fit, management transition, customer concentration, financing, and control are clearly bounded.
Before you activate the mandate
- A named decision-maker who can assess a match
- Clear hard criteria and useful preferences
- A realistic capital and approval path
- A reason the seller should consider this buyer
- A current mandate that can be updated when priorities change
Need to turn a broad search into reviewable criteria? The acquisition search mandate guide covers industry, geography, financial ranges, ownership structure, and buyer approval before a private match.
Register a free buyer mandate
Free target discovery
Find targets without buyer platform fees.
Create a buyer account, define your acquisition mandate, and receive matched opportunities when seller profiles fit, without subscription, lead, matching, or success fees. Pass on a match or signal interest. When you signal interest, MergerMatch reveals the seller-side contact to you. You then contact the seller directly, and the seller decides whether to respond or disclose additional company information.
Find targets for freeOptional advisor-led route
Need someone to run the acquisition search?
Lyndon Advisory is our related M&A advisory firm for selected Asia Pacific mandates. It can support mandate definition, target identification, confidential owner outreach, valuation, diligence coordination, negotiation, and execution.
Lyndon advisory is a separate service with its own scope, terms, and conflict review. It is not required to use MergerMatch's free buyer account, matching, or connection flow.
Buyer strategies and learning paths
Learn the acquisition process, then turn buyer criteria into private opportunity flow.
Acquisition opportunity matching
Receive anonymized SME opportunities that fit your sector, geography, size, and structure criteria.
Off-market business acquisition
Find SME deals before public listing through private mandate matching by sector, size, and structure.
How to buy a business
Move from acquisition thesis and mandate design through private sourcing, staged diligence, and ownership transition.
Business acquisition ideas
Compare seven business models by revenue quality, dependencies, operating fit, growth logic, and downside.
Acquisition pitfalls
Use a buyer checklist for mandate drift, earnings, concentration, transferability, financing, diligence, and integration.
Search fund opportunities
Build an operator-led mandate around geography, size, funding path, transition, and personal fit.
Corporate development opportunities
Separate platform, add-on, capability, product, and geographic theses into actionable mandates.
Strategic acquisition strategy
Choose between a new business line, core expansion, product, capability, or geographic growth mandate.
Private equity opportunities
Register separate platform, add-on, minority, or other approved fund and portfolio-company mandates.
Bolt-on acquisition strategy
Translate a portfolio-company need into target criteria, synergy tests, approval ownership, and an integration posture.
Independent sponsor opportunities
Connect sector and operating criteria to an accurate capital plan and approval path.
Holding company opportunities
Define ownership strategy, management fit, operating support, capital boundaries, and approval authority.
Family office opportunities
Turn direct investment preferences into clear governance, capital, ownership, and operating criteria.
Broker buyer mandate matching
Let a broker register buyer criteria and review matched opportunities.
Consumer business acquisition
Match with consumer goods, retail, food and beverage, and franchise businesses through private four-dimension matching.
FAQ
Questions about finding acquisition opportunities.
How do buyers find businesses to acquire on MergerMatch?
Create a free buyer account and register a mandate covering industry, geography, deal size, and control or minority structure. MergerMatch sends anonymized seller opportunities when those criteria fit.
Are MergerMatch acquisition opportunities public listings?
No. Buyers do not browse a public directory of named companies. Opportunities are privately routed to relevant mandates and begin with anonymized information.
Is it free to find acquisition targets on MergerMatch?
Yes. Creating a buyer account, registering mandates, receiving matching targets, and connecting carry no MergerMatch subscription, lead, matching, or success fee. Optional Rooms and sale-preparation tools may be paid separately.
Does MergerMatch recommend investments or guarantee business quality?
No. MergerMatch identifies possible fit between buyer criteria and seller information. Buyers and their advisers must verify ownership, financials, operations, legal matters, funding, and all other transaction risks.
Can a buyer register more than one acquisition mandate?
Yes. A buyer can keep distinct theses separate, such as one mandate for a platform acquisition and another for smaller add-on opportunities.
Can first-time buyers use MergerMatch?
Yes. A first-time buyer can register a mandate and receive matching opportunities for free. The buyer must still establish its capital path, operating credibility, decision process, and professional diligence support.
Can an acquisition mandate cover more than one country?
Yes. A mandate can cover local, regional, cross-border, or global searches. Separate mandates are clearer when sector, deal size, ownership, funding, or approval criteria differ by market.
Can I get an adviser to run a target search and acquisition process?
Yes. Lyndon Advisory is our related M&A advisory firm for selected, advisor-led Asia Pacific acquisition mandates. Lyndon advisory is a separate engagement and is not required to create a MergerMatch account, register mandates, receive matches, or connect.