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The firm
Small by design.
You are not buying a bench of analysts. You are buying the person who runs your search, and an origination capability no firm of this size should have.
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The name
A ridge, and first light on it.
Drummond is a Scottish territorial name from the Gaelic dromainn — a ridge, a high back of land. Leonardes is the founder’s own name. The mark is the two initials, cut as they would be on a share certificate, inside an engine-turned rosette — the guilloche that has been printed on securities and banknotes for two hundred years because it is hard to counterfeit and impossible to hurry. Nothing was invented around it.
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The founder
You deal with the person who runs the search.
Drummond Leonardes Partners was founded by J. Leonardes dos Santos — ten years in mergers and acquisitions, and twenty in B2B origination: the discipline of finding companies nobody has a list of, and getting the person who owns them to take the call.
On a mandate he writes the buy box, reads the target list, approves every message that goes out, and sits in the meetings through to closing. There is no handover to an associate two years out of college, because there is no associate. That is the trade a firm this size offers, and it is the whole of it.
The proprietary database and the sending infrastructure behind every mandate were built from scratch, over three years. They are not licensed from anyone.
- 10 years in M&A
- 20 years in B2B origination
- Entirely remote · United States hours
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Principles
Four, and they are operational.
One side
We work for buyers. We take no consideration from sellers or targets, and the fee agreement forbids it.
Senior throughout
The person you meet is the person who defines the buy box, reads the target list, writes the outreach and sits in the meetings. There is no handover.
Coverage before charm
We would rather have read four thousand companies than know four people. The network follows from the coverage; it does not substitute for it.
Nothing invented
No fabricated transactions, no borrowed logos, no invented assets under advisement. Every number on this site is one we can show you the query for.
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What backs the engagement
Stated plainly.
What stands behind an order here is the principal’s transaction experience, an origination platform built from scratch rather than licensed, and terms that put our money where our claim is: you pay for introductions delivered, anything undelivered at day ninety is refunded without being asked for, and we take no money from the other side of your table.
The fee agreement is published in full before anyone pays — read it first. Drummond Leonardes Partners is a recently established firm and does not claim a transaction record under this name; a professional buyer verifies, and we would rather you verify us on the terms than on a tombstone.
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Where we are
Remote by design, on United States hours.
The firm works entirely remotely: meetings by video, outreach by letter, mail and telephone. We do not attend in person, and we say so before you order rather than after. Owners are reached by mail and phone, not by geography — which is why a remote desk running proprietary outreach covers more of United States and international than a sourcing team sitting inside it. The firm is registered in Delaware; the principal works from Portugal.