Berngate acts as deal originator for buyers, investors, funds, and firms with active acquisition mandates. You give us your criteria — we source, qualify, and deliver curated opportunities. Your team focuses on closing, not searching.
The most active acquirers in the lower and middle market share the same problem: deal flow. Finding quality businesses that fit your mandate — before they're widely shopped, and positioned well enough to move quickly — takes time, network, and constant origination effort.
Berngate does that work for you. We maintain a global sourcing network, proactively engage off-market sellers, and qualify every opportunity against your criteria before it reaches your desk. No noise. No tyre-kickers. Just deals that are worth your time.
We work on an ongoing mandate basis — building and refining our origination effort around your criteria until we deliver exactly the deal flow your strategy requires.
Submit your mandate →A clean, repeatable origination process built around your mandate. Three stages from criteria to curated delivery — every time, no exceptions.
Tell us what you're looking for. Sector, size, geography, EBITDA profile, deal structure preferences, and any other parameters that define a good fit. The more specific your criteria, the more targeted our sourcing. We build our origination process around your mandate.
We don't recycle publicly listed businesses. Berngate sources off-market — proactively engaging business owners before they've formally decided to sell, qualifying deal flow against your criteria before any approach is made. Every opportunity earned its place.
We present qualified opportunities with the commercial context your team needs to move quickly — sector positioning, financial summary, deal rationale, and our assessment of fit. A curated brief, not a raw data dump, that respects your team's time.
The best origination relationships are built on precision. The clearer your mandate, the better we can match what we source to what you'll actually transact on. Here's what helps us hit the mark from day one.
Submit a mandate →| Field | What to share with us |
|---|---|
| 🏭 Sector | Target industries, sectors to avoid, or agnostic with specific exclusions noted |
| 💰 Deal Size | Enterprise value range and EBITDA floor — we operate primarily $500K–$50M EV |
| 🌐 Geography | Target markets, preferred regions, or worldwide — we source across all major territories |
| 🏗️ Structure | Full acquisition, majority stake, platform add-on, recapitalisation, or flexible |
| 📊 Profile | Revenue type (recurring vs. project), margins, owner involvement, growth stage |
| ⏱️ Timeline | Actively deploying or building pipeline — we calibrate cadence to your urgency |
If you're actively deploying capital or building your acquisition pipeline, start with a conversation. We'll take your criteria, align our origination effort to your mandate, and begin sourcing. The right businesses exist. Let us find them.