Fellow acquirers, I need your help overcoming a major hurdle in my search: filtering out non-serious sellers. After months of work—building relationships, crunching numbers, and making fair offers—all my serious prospects fell through for classic reasons: seller's remorse, a last-minute competitor, and being used to generate leverage. I understand this is a numbers game, but the resource drain is real. I'm convinced my screening process needs sharpening. For those who have successfully closed deals, I'd be grateful for your insights on a few key points: - What are the undeniable red flags and green flags of a "motivated seller" in your first few conversations? - What questions do you ask to gauge sincerity and urgency beyond "Why are you selling?" - How do you structure early interactions to secure exclusivity or at least a genuine commitment to proceed? Thank you in advance for your wisdom. Philippe

Hi all, if you acquire a business with an important cash surplus, what do you do with it? - Try not to keep it at all and use as much as possible to pay the Seller? - Park it in Bonds? - Use it for further acquisitions? - Does anybody have any experience with some parking vehicles better than bonds? I’m especially thinking about derivates programs (such as low-risk options income strategies) for example? Thanks for the feedbacks and sharing experiences, Philippe

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We come across, distressed and retirement deals daily in the UK, most we don't progress with, if we come across a deal and you would like an introduction, drop what sector you are interested in, in the comments.

Hi all, I was talking to an important sports articles distributor to acquire his business, that he wanted to sell. After a couple of weeks he came back to me with the idea of partnering instead to acquire more similar businesses together. Not really what I had in mind, and also I am a bit reluctant to partner with someone I don't really know. What could a solution be? I thought of proposing an asset roll-in instead where his business would give him a minority share in a newco that would go on for similar acquisitions. Does anyone have experience with such a structure? I believe it 's called equity roll-in. thanks for any experience you d be willing to share