MORR Capital · Buy-side M&A

Acquisitions built on discipline, not deal fever.

A sale process is engineered to remove the risks a buyer would otherwise discount. Buying well means finding the risks that were not removed, pricing them, and knowing in advance the number at which you stop.

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Capabilities

What the mandate covers.

Value is a function of risk, growth, and cash flow. A seller’s advisor spends the whole preparation phase systematically removing risk from that equation. Everything below is the other side of that work.

Target identification

A sell-side buyer list is built by asking which acquirers a business fits. A search asks it backwards: given your thesis, which businesses satisfy it — including the majority that are not for sale, whose owners have never been asked.

Valuation and negotiation

What the business is worth to you, triangulated across methods rather than argued from one. The output is an after-tax, post-structure number and a walk-away price written down before the first approach.

Diligence coordination

Financial, commercial, legal, and tax workstreams run to one calendar with one owner, so findings arrive while they can still move price rather than after it is set.

Structuring

Consideration, earnout, rollover, and financing built together. How you pay changes what you can pay, and it decides who is still motivated the day after close.

Integration readiness

The first hundred days planned before signing, because the value case was underwritten on changes somebody has to actually make.

Doctrine

Four things that govern the work.

Not house preference. These are the conclusions the evidence supports, and they decide what happens in the weeks that actually move the number.

The thesis comes first

Criteria written and ranked before a single name is screened. A thesis written after you have fallen for a target is not a thesis, it is a justification.

Proprietary beats competitive

The best acquisitions are the ones nobody ran a process for. That means approaching owners who never listed, which is slower, and routinely cheaper by a turn or more.

The walk-away is agreed in advance

A price set in the room is a price the room set. We write down the number, and the reasons for it, while everyone is still calm.

Underwrite the preparation

Assume everything that could have been cleaned up was. The seller has spent months removing risk from the equation on paper; the mandate is to find what remains.

Process

How the mandate runs.

Every engagement runs the same nine phases. Below is how they compress for this mandate.

Thesis

What you are buying and why, agreed before anyone is contacted.

Deliverables

Acquisition criteria, written and ranked
Value-creation hypothesis under your ownership
Screening parameters and explicit exclusions
A pre-mortem: the named ways this goes wrong
Walk-away discipline agreed in advance

Search

The population that fits the thesis, not the population that happens to be for sale.

Deliverables

Universe inversion across the full addressable set
Tiered target list, cleared with you before contact
Confidential approach sequence and messaging
Owner motivation and succession read per live target

Diligence

Finding what the preparation removed.

Deliverables

Workstreams run to one calendar with one owner
Quality of earnings tested rather than accepted
Commercial diligence on the customers, not the deck
Findings priced and fed back into the offer

Close

Structure, financing, and the first hundred days.

Deliverables

Consideration and earnout structured against what was found
Debt or equity financing arranged in parallel
Purchase agreement negotiated alongside counsel
Integration plan owned before signing

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MORR Capital is a division of MORR Group. Nothing on this page is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor is it investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. No communication through this page creates an advisory or fiduciary relationship.

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