Sell-Side M&A Intermediaries are typically tasked with finding both the best buyer and the one that is willing to pay the highest price. Sometimes, however, clients simply want to explore the strategic fit with a limited number of candidates. The Aligned IQ M&A platform provides Intermediaries a way to discover strategic buyers with active acquisition mandates that may not be on their radar.
Buy-Side Intermediaries can use the Aligned IQ M&A platform to get their clients’ active buy mandate in front of receptive sellers.
For M&A Intermediaries:
With Sell-Side or Buy-Side Clients In Aligned IQ M&A Industry Verticals
What is it?
Aligned IQ M&A is an online platform where M&A Intermediaries with limited/narrow sell-side engagements or active buy-side mandates
can enhance their services for their clients.
As an
Industry Vertical centric M&A platform, for sell-side engagements, Aligned IQ M&A‘s proprietary scoring process ensures potential
buyer matches have knowledge, experience, and an active acquisition mandate in your client’s industry.
For buy-side engagements, M&A Intermediaries can discover receptive sellers that are not being actively or broadly marketed, and where the strategic fit is the sellers’ highest priority
Who Uses Aligned IQ M&A?
Attractive Fee Structure
Aligned IQ M&A does not charge any subscription, service, or success fees to business sellers or to their sell-side Intermediaries. Intermediaries can invite as many sell-side or buy-side clients as they want; however, each requires approval by the client before going live on the platform.
Aligned IQ M&A is designed to focus on narrow processes where the seller is looking for a buyer that is a strong strategic fit and has experience in their Industry Vertical. Sellers and/or their Intermediaries are limited to 3 potential buyers per client.
M&A Intermediaries with active buy-side clients can upload their clients’ Industry Vertical mandates and are only required to pay us if a deal is closed that was facilitated on the platform.
Easy to Use
Getting started is easy. You can book a demo or we can set up your sell-side clients’ profile or buy-side mandate for you. You should be up and running in approximately 30 minutes.
Soon, you and your clients should be able to assess the best strategic matches for your clients’ business.
Updating your sell-side clients’ profile(s) or buy-side client(s) mandate is simple and easy.
Confidential and Secure
Potential buyers never get access to your sell-side clients’ information, other than their pre-approved, anonymous profile, and then only after your client’s approval. You and your client are in full control, all the time.
Potential buyers cannot simply browse the platform and fish for deals.
Likewise, sellers or their Intermediaries cannot browse active buy mandates, so buy mandates stay confidential until a potential match is identified.
Matches are made using our proprietary scoring process and “human in the loop” reasoning by experienced professionals.
Our Aligned IQ VDR is an inexpensive, secure, multi-tenant virtual dataroom designed for M&A professionals, M&A Advisors, and Business owners. It offers high-level security and compliance controls, enabling confidential document sharing and collaboration. The platform supports efficient due diligence workflows with streamlined access management, granular permissions, and audit-trail logging. Its configuration is tailored for strategic buyers, sellers, and advisors, with customisable folder structures and user roles to reflect transaction-specific workflows. The user experience focuses on ease of use for lower middle-market M&A, helping deal teams manage sensitive data, maintain confidentiality, and accelerate transaction timelines.
Multi-Tenant Enterprise VDR for $195.95 per month
frequently asked questions
There are no fees for M&A Intermediaries when they are representing the seller. For Buyers, Aligned IQ M&A Fees are paid by either the Intermediary or the Buy-side client when a deal is closed from Matches facilitated on the platform. It’s up to you and your client.
Intermediaries can invite buy-side clients to register for the Aligned IQ platform, and the client will need to agree to the Aligned IQ M&A terms in the user Agreement. You can then access their profile to enter, update, or edit the Buyer’s acquisition mandate, etc., as can the Buyer Client. Before a Match can be completed, you and/or your client will need to agree to the Aligned IQ NDA/Fee Agreement.
Fees are payable only upon the successful close of a transaction facilitated on the platform.
Not really. M&A Intermediaries representing a seller are limited to three potential buyers but have the same access to the platform as if their client had uploaded their profile directly. M&A Intermediaries representing a buyer have the same access to the platform as the buyer would have if they had uploaded their buy mandate directly.