§ Buy-side origination · United States
The company you should own is not for sale. Its owner still takes calls.
Off-market origination for professional acquirers, priced by the introduction. We map your buy box against our own database and search in the United States, approach founder-owners on an undisclosed-principal basis, and deliver only the owners who have said — in writing or on a recorded call — that they would sell, or would meet to discuss it. You pay for each introduction delivered. Nothing for the ones that never come. And every owner we introduce to you is introduced to you alone — never shown to another buyer.
No auctions. No listings. No shared owners. No compensation from sellers.
- 4.3M
- US company domains identified
- 2.9M
- with a verified contact route
- 53.5M
- US business records from state and federal filings
- 0
- taken from sellers, by contract
§ 01
The problem
Intermediated deal flow is the most expensive place to buy a company.
By the time a CIM reaches your inbox, the same teaser has reached nine other funds with the same thesis. The process is competitive by design — that is what the sell-side banker is paid for — and the clearing price reflects it. Everything you are shown has already been shown.
The companies worth owning are the ones whose founder has never retained a banker, does not appear in any curated database, and has no intention of running a process. Reaching them is not a relationship problem. It is a coverage problem: knowing the company exists, who owns it, and how to reach that person in terms they will answer.
§ 02
What we do
01
You define the buy box. We apply it as a hard filter.
Sector and sub-sector, geography, revenue and EBITDA bands, ownership profile, platform or add-on, and the exclusions that matter. Confirmed in writing before any outreach starts. Every introduction is measured against it.
Criteria → 02We build the universe from primary data and work it ourselves
4.3 million US company domains, 2.9 million of them with a verified contact route, and 53.5 million US business records from state and federal filings, and analyst review of the companies no commercial database holds. We size the universe, tell you how many companies fit, and run the outreach in our name. You do not receive a list. You receive owners.
The origination platform → 03We deliver the owner, with proof — and stay on the deal
Letter, email, telephone and professional network, on an undisclosed-principal basis, so no price signal reaches the market. We qualify every response by phone. An introduction is delivered only when the owner has said, in writing or on a recorded call, that they would sell or would meet about a sale — and that statement comes with it. That owner is yours: we do not introduce the same company to a second buyer, and the fee agreement says so. From there we remain on every call and every thread through LOI, diligence and closing.
What an introduction is →§ 03
What it costs
Priced by the introduction. Published in full.
No proposal stage, no retainer, no procurement cycle. Describe what you buy, choose the number of introductions you want, and pay by card. The fee agreement follows by email, pre-filled with your buy box. Introductions are delivered within ninety days — on average in under thirty — and any not delivered by day ninety is refunded.
Target revenue Per introduction
< £4M £450 £4M – £8M £900 £8M – £40M £1,400 £40M – £200M £2,100 Minimum order £900
Each introduction goes to one buyer only. The owner is never shown to anyone else.
AND WHAT WE ARE PAID WHEN IT CLOSES
- < £4M
- 4.0%
- £4M – £8M
- 2.5%
- £8M – £20M
- 2.0%
- £20M – £40M
- 1.5%
- > £40M
- 1.0%
- Minimum per transaction
- £120,000
Marginal, not banded — each rate applies only to the portion inside its tier. Due on any transaction with a company we introduced, closing within 24 months. The introduction fee pays for the origination; the success fee pays for the deal. Worked in full on the fees page.
§ 04
One side
Buyer-side only. In the fee agreement, not just on the website.
We do not list companies. We do not represent sellers. We are never compensated by the other side of your table — no fee, commission, retainer, carried interest, equity or expense reimbursement from a target, a seller, or anyone affiliated with either — and our fee agreement forbids it and requires disclosure of anything that could look like it.
The consequence is structural, not rhetorical: when we tell you a company is worth nine million and not fourteen, we have nothing to gain from the higher number.
We do not wait for deal flow. We manufacture it. 4.3M US company domains identified · 2.9M with a verified contact route · 53.5M US business records from state and federal filings. How the origination works →
§ 05
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.
- 10 years in M&A
- 20 years in B2B origination
- Entirely remote · US hours
§ Next step
Order in five minutes.
Describe what you buy in your own words, choose the number of introductions, and pay by card. The fee agreement follows by email, pre-filled with your buy box, and is signed before the first introduction is delivered. No procurement cycle, no proposal, no series of meetings. Questions first? Speak to the principal now, or message on WhatsApp.