- Finding deals before they hit the market - Analyzing thousands of companies automatically - Detecting red flags in seconds - Speeding up due diligence massively - Improving businesses after acquisition This isn’t hype. It’s real competitive advantage. 🎥 Watch the full video breakdown here And if you want to learn step-by-step: Free M&A course:https://paulseabridge.online/free-dealmaker-training

I’ve written 4 different books, each focused on helping people think bigger, build authority, and take action. In this short video, I quickly explain what each book is about and why I wrote them. Here’s a quick introduction to each one: 📘 Leveraged Buyouts This book is a practical guide to buying multi-million £/$ businesses using leveraged buyouts.I break down the full process — from sourcing deals and speaking to business owners, to analysing financials, structuring the deal, raising funding, completing the acquisition, growing the company, and eventually exiting. It’s built from real experience completing over 100 M&A transactions globally. Get Here 📘 Buy, Build, Sell This book shares my journey from broke to building multi-million pound businesses. It combines personal story with practical strategies on scaling, improving cash flow, understanding financials, building wealth through M&A, and ultimately designing the type of success you actually want. It’s about growth — both business and personal. Get Here 📘 Built to Sell Well Selling your business is one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make. In this book, I explain how to prepare, position, value, and negotiate your company properly — so you don’t leave money on the table.

Turning a Competitor’s Failure into 50% Revenue Growth: A Distressed Deal Case Study Distressed Acquisition We Advised On We don’t usually do these but thought I’d share the case study. We don’t normally touch them because they are messy, time compressed, legally constrained, light on diligence, heavy on execution risk, and emotionally draining for everyone involved. Most buyers underestimate the cash required, overestimate how quickly synergies arrive, and forget that in an insolvency process you are buying problems, not just assets. That said, we recently advised on a distressed situation where the strategic logic was unusually compelling — and where the downside was well understood and actively managed. This article outlines why the deal made sense, and then walks through a live deal analysis, covering the real world considerations buyers need to think about when acquiring a business out of administration. The strategic backdrop A year ago, we helped a JV partner acquire a profitable construction business: • £11m turnover • £1.1m EBITDA • Well-run, scalable, and operationally disciplined Recently, a direct competitor — operating in the same region, with overlapping customers, assets, and workforce — moved toward administration. From the outside, the distressed business looked unattractive: • Loss making • Overstaffed head office • Factored receivables • Asset heavy • Operationally fragmented across multiple sites But from the perspective of an experienced operator already in the sector, it represented something else: An opportunity to add almost 50% to turnover, improve margins through scale and consolidation, and acquire hard assets at a fraction of replacement value. This wasn’t a financial engineering play. It was a strategic bolt on rescue, driven by operational synergies. The core investment thesis The buyer’s logic was straightforward: • Revenue upside • Retain core customers • Cross sell into an existing client base • Renew live contracts • Margin improvement

I’m putting together a free Dealmaker Training for business owners, investors and operators who want to understand how acquisitions are actually structured and funded in today’s market. It’s not theory — I’ll be covering how leveraged buyouts really work in the lower mid market, how deals get financed with little or no equity, and the frameworks we use at OPC Capital Partners across 100+ transactions. I’m opening it to a small group first via a waitlist. Everyone joining now also gets a free copy of my book on leveraged buyouts (LBOs) ahead of the training going live in a few weeks. If it sounds useful, you can join here: https://paulseabridge.online/free-dealmaker-training No hard sell — just practical M&A training for people who want to become more active on the buy side.

Yesterday, our team demonstrated our deal-sourcing solution to an established M&A firm — and they were genuinely impressed. This is a true end-to-end system that: - Identifies qualified acquisition targets - Sets up and manages the outbound platform - Writes personalised outreach copy - Sends outbound messages - Responds to every prospect who signals interest - Books calls directly into your calendar For the M&A firm, this means: - Significant savings on manual outreach - Major reductions in research time - Lower staff costs - More conversations with highly qualified leads - More time focused on closing deals This solution also works for most other B2B service businesses. The client booked 45 calls on autopilot within just 29 days. If you want to transform your lead and sales process for 2026, increase profitability, and drive more revenue, get in touch.