9Miles47 gives acquisitive businesses, investors and management teams flexible access to experienced M&A capability. Use us for a discrete piece of analysis, to originate acquisition opportunities, or to embed experienced M&A resource alongside your existing team.
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Buy an output, add origination resource, or add ongoing capacity to your team. Every engagement is built around your strategy, criteria, processes and governance — and led by experienced investment and M&A people.
Get the analysis you need to make a better decision.
Commission a clearly defined piece of M&A or investment work with an agreed scope, output and fee. Choose a single module or combine several — delivered by experienced people, without a broader mandate.
Best for: A specific decision, a single question, or rapid additional capacity.
Build and engage the right acquisition pipeline.
For buyers who know what they want to acquire but need resource to identify and approach opportunities. We develop acquisition criteria, map the market, build the longlist and shortlist, identify owners and decision-makers, and run discreet outreach and qualification.
We can run the outreach programme end to end, or work alongside your existing corporate development team.
Best for: Buyers with a clear acquisition thesis and limited origination capacity.
An extension of your team.
For businesses pursuing an active acquisition or buy-and-build strategy, we embed experienced M&A capability alongside management — supporting multiple transactions from market assessment and origination through diligence, valuation, negotiation and Investment Committee approval. Your CFO / FD and management team remain in control.
We provide the analysis, coordination and execution resource. You retain approval over strategy, valuation, offers, expenditure and whether a transaction proceeds.
Best for: Active acquirers, PE-backed businesses and buy-and-build programmes.
Nine connected service lines — deployable individually or as a coordinated embedded team, from strategy through to integration.
Turn acquisition strategy into a qualified pipeline.
We translate your strategic objectives into clear acquisition criteria, map relevant markets and identify, research and prioritise potential targets.
Includes — Acquisition thesis and criteria, market mapping, target identification, company research, target scoring and prioritisation, and ongoing pipeline development.
Create proprietary conversations with the right businesses.
We identify owners and decision-makers, map relationships and execute discreet, highly targeted outreach to priority acquisition targets. Senior partner oversight is applied to external engagement and sensitive conversations.
Includes — Decision-maker identification, relationship mapping, outreach strategy, personalised messaging, campaign execution, response management and CRM tracking.
Understand the market, customers and competitive position.
We independently test the commercial assumptions underpinning an acquisition and assess whether the target can sustain its growth.
Includes — Market attractiveness, competitive positioning, customer and revenue analysis, market growth, differentiation, commercial risks and growth opportunities.
Determine whether the financials support the deal.
We analyse the quality and sustainability of financial performance, identifying issues that could affect valuation, structure or negotiation.
Includes — Quality of earnings, revenue quality, EBITDA normalisation, customer concentration, margins, cash conversion, working capital, net debt and debt-like items, forecast challenge and financial red flags.
Determine whether the business can deliver the plan.
We assess whether the organisation, people, processes, systems and operating model can support the acquisition case and future growth.
Includes — Management and organisation, scalability, capacity, productivity, operating processes, cost base, systems and controls, execution risks and operational improvement opportunities.
Understand the technology opportunity — and the risk.
We assess technology, data and AI capabilities to determine whether they create genuine competitive advantage or introduce material investment risk.
Includes — Technology architecture, product and engineering capability, AI strategy, data assets, cybersecurity considerations, technical scalability, technology debt, automation opportunities and technology risks.
Senior M&A support from opportunity to completion.
We bring the individual workstreams together to support valuation, transaction strategy, negotiation and execution.
Includes — Strategic fit, valuation, transaction structure, synergy assessment, deal risks, Heads of Terms support, adviser coordination, negotiation support, diligence management and transaction decision-making.
Turn the acquisition thesis into an executable plan.
We identify the actions required to capture value following completion and translate diligence findings into clear priorities.
Includes — 100-day planning, operational improvements, synergy capture, management priorities, KPI development, technology and automation opportunities, and 1–3 year value-creation roadmaps.
A continuously updated acquisition pipeline, not a one-off target list.
For clients with ongoing acquisition strategies, our embedded team continuously monitors markets, identifies new opportunities, refreshes target intelligence and maintains the acquisition pipeline.
Includes — Market monitoring, new target discovery, trigger-event identification, target re-scoring, competitive intelligence, pipeline reporting and regular M&A reviews.
Access to our specialist agents is only part of the picture. Every engagement is also supported by leading market platforms and proprietary tooling, giving your team the infrastructure of a mature corporate development function from day one.
We deploy best-in-class technology — including Grasp.ai for deal sourcing and intelligence — alongside our own proprietary AI-native outreach and targeting CRM. The combination means more ground covered, better-targeted outreach, and a structured, auditable pipeline rather than ad-hoc effort.
Leading market platform for AI-driven deal sourcing, target identification and market intelligence — extending the reach of your dedicated team.
Our own AI-native outreach and targeting CRM. Purpose-built for founder-led, multi-channel outreach with structured tracking and reporting.
AI-native targeting surfaces the right companies and decision-makers, then sequences discreet, senior-led contact at scale.
Every target, contact and interaction is logged in a structured CRM — giving your governance the visibility it expects.
Behind each mandate sits a coordinated team of specialist capabilities across strategy, market intelligence, research, origination, financial diligence, operational diligence, technology diligence, transaction execution and communications.
Rather than replacing professional judgement, technology increases the capacity, speed and analytical depth available to our senior team.
A specialist agent team configured around your strategy, acquisition criteria and processes.
We operate as an extension of your leadership, strategy or corporate development team.
Specialist agents undertake research, analysis, monitoring and workflow execution at greater speed and scale.
Senior M&A professionals provide judgement, challenge, relationship management and transaction leadership.
Material actions and external communications remain subject to defined human approval.
Engage us for a specific workstream, individual transaction or as an ongoing embedded M&A capability.
An eight-page guide for CFOs, FDs and management teams: how we sit alongside your team, the transaction process end to end, exactly what we do and what you approve, the tools behind the work, our leadership team and structure, deliverables and indicative pricing.
The capability and rigour of a corporate development function — without the fixed cost of building one in-house. Tell us about your acquisition strategy and we'll shape an embedded resource around your criteria, processes and governance.