M&NA BROKERAGE · FOR BUYERS · ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
A new branch takes years. Merging takes months.
Opening a new location in a new region means hiring a team, building a reputation, and finding customers from zero, usually over several years before it's genuinely profitable. Merging with an established, same-industry business in that region gets you the team, the customers, and the reputation on day one. We find companies open to that conversation before they're even on the market, and there's no fee to explore.
WHY MERGE INSTEAD OF BUILD
Three ways to grow. One of them starts producing on day one.
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Instant footprint
A same-industry business in your target region already has the team, the customer relationships, and the local reputation you'd otherwise spend years building. You're buying time as much as revenue.
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Continuity protects what you're paying for
The value in the business you're acquiring lives in its people and its customer relationships. A merger that keeps the existing team in place, instead of a hostile takeover that triggers departures and customer churn, is usually what makes the acquisition actually pay off.
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Sellers already expect you
Because we run sell-side mandates as well, the owners we bring you already know they will be approached by a same-industry, growth-minded buyer, not a discount liquidation offer. That means fewer cold conversations for you.
THE PROCESS
From target profile to signed deal
We act as your buy-side advisor, sourcing targets, running negotiations, and coordinating the specialists a clean acquisition requires.
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Tell us what "grow" means for you: a specific region, a specific competitor, added capacity in a market you're already in, or simply the same trade somewhere new. The narrower the profile, the faster we can tell you what's realistic.
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We don't run a database of 20,000 buyers and sellers. We check our actual relationships in that trade and region and tell you plainly, before you commit to anything, whether we already have, or can reasonably build, a relevant seller relationship for your profile.
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An anonymized profile exchange under NDA, then a direct conversation once both sides want one. We help structure a deal built around what happens to the seller's team, since that's usually the point negotiations either hold together or fall apart.
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Share purchase agreement signed, funds transferred, coordinated with your lawyer, trustee, and bank, each handling the parts that require their license, not ours.
Most mandates close within 6 to 18 months. Finding the right match takes longer than negotiating with them once you have.
WHY ALLDIS & PARTNER
We know these owners before they're looking to sell.
Most of our sell-side clients come to us for GEO and LinkedIn positioning first, long before they're actively considering an exit. That gives us an honest read on who's growing, who's stretched thin, and who might be open to the right conversation, well before a formal sale process would ever surface them to a typical buyer database.
We're not a pure-play M&A boutique with a 20,000-name buyer list. We're a smaller, more specific network, but one we actually know.
HOW WE FIND YOU A TARGET
We look for owners who'd rather merge than watch the business fade.
A meaningful share of Swiss SME owners have no succession plan and no internal successor. Some of them aren't actively looking for a buyer; they just haven't found a reason to start the conversation. Because we already work with same-industry owners on their online positioning, we're often close enough to that conversation to raise it directly, before a company is formally on the market and before a bigger buyer even knows it exists.
Every introduction starts anonymized, industry, region, revenue band, no company name, under NDA on both sides. Names are exchanged only once both parties want to keep talking.
FEES
No fee to explore. We're paid by the seller.
Sharing a target profile, an initial conversation, and a first look at a potential match cost you nothing. We're paid a success fee by the seller at closing, on the same schedule shown below, so it's worth knowing how the other side's economics work before you're at the table.
For you, as the buyer
CHF 0
no fee to register interest, share a target profile, or have an initial conversation
You pay nothing to explore a match. If a deal closes, our fee is paid by the seller, not by you, and it's disclosed to both sides before negotiations begin.
Success fee schedule (paid by the seller)
Transaction value
Up to CHF 2M
CHF 2M to 5M
CHF 5M to 10M
CHF 10M to 20M
Above CHF 20M
Rate
8% to 10%
6% to 8%
4% to 6%
3% to 4%
2% to 3%
What the seller pays
8% to 10% → 2% to 3%
sliding scale by transaction value, standard Swiss market rate
A tiered percentage of transaction value, due only at closing. Worth factoring into how you think about the offer, since it's part of the seller's net outcome, not yours.
CHF 1.2M deal
≈ CHF 108,000
~9% effective
CHF 8M deal
≈ CHF 540,000
~6.75% effective
CHF 3M deal
≈ CHF 250,000
~8.3% effective
CHF 12M deal
≈ CHF 710,000
~5.9% effective
Illustrative only, using the midpoint of each bracket on a marginal basis. Final terms are set out in the mandate letter with the seller before we start.
WHO THIS IS FOR
A short list of what makes a good fit
You want to grow by adding an established business, not just headcount.
Same-industry or an adjacent trade; you already know how to run what you're buying.
Open to keeping the acquired company's team and customer relationships intact, not stripping them out.
Expanding into a new region, or adding capacity and market share in one you're already in.
Comfortable with a target roughly CHF 300,000 to 2,000,000 in annual EBITDA, CHF 1.2M to 12M in deal value.
Comfortable with a confidential, relationship-driven search rather than a large public buyer database.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions we hear most about growing through a merger
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No. Sharing your target profile, an initial conversation, and a first look at a potential match are free. We're paid a success fee by the seller at closing, not by you.
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Mainly through our existing GEO and LinkedIn positioning relationships with same-industry owners, and through direct, targeted outreach in your specific trade and region. We don't maintain a large public buyer or seller database. See "How We Find You a Target" above.
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Generally CHF 300,000 to 2,000,000 in annual EBITDA, which typically puts deal value in the CHF 1.2M to 12M range. Outside that range we'll tell you honestly if we're not the right fit for your search.
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Yes. Tell us every profile you're interested in, industry, region, size, and we'll tell you honestly, for each one, whether we already have or can reasonably build relevant seller relationships.
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That's negotiated and written into the deal terms, not guaranteed by default. Because we prioritize sellers who want a same-industry buyer that will keep the business, and their people, running, continuity tends to be part of the conversation from the start rather than an afterthought.
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Yes, before any company-specific information is shared. Every introduction starts with an anonymized profile, industry, region, revenue band, no name, and moves to a named conversation only once both sides want to continue.
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M&NA brokerage is a newer part of what we do, built on top of an existing marketing agency working with Swiss SMEs. We're upfront about that rather than overstating a track record; what we bring instead is direct relationships with same-industry owners through our marketing work, and we'll always be direct about where a larger, longer-established advisor might be the better fit for a specific search.
Ready to talk about growing?
Tell us what you're looking for. No obligation, no fee to explore, and a confidential first conversation.