Meridian Deal Partners · Origination Desk

Your next acquisition is not
in anyone’s deal flow.

It belongs to an owner who has not decided to sell yet, has never spoken to a banker, and will not appear in a process you get invited to. We reach those owners, do the work that would otherwise sit with your team, and put a small number of qualified situations in front of you.

Deal flow is not the issue. Filtering is.
DirectTo the owner, not a process
ScreenedAgainst your written mandate
QualifiedDisqualifiers cleared first
WarmOwner already in conversation
AttributedOrigination logged and dated

The problem is not volume

Every firm we speak to is already drowning. The cost is not missing deals — it is the weeks lost to situations that were never going to clear your screen.

What you get today

  • Broker blasts sent to two hundred buyers at once, priced for the most optimistic one.
  • Unprepared sellers who should never have been taken to market. One live process running twelve months is not unusual.
  • Fourth-look processes where the pricing was set before you were invited.
  • Volume as a proxy for value — a longer list, not a better one.

What a desk does instead

  • Your mandate in writing — sector, size, geography, structure, and the hard exclusions.
  • Direct-to-owner situations sourced before a process exists.
  • Documented disqualifiers — you see why something was rejected, not just what survived.
  • An origination register recording who surfaced what, and when.

How it runs

Four steps. The first one is free and takes fifteen minutes.

  1. Mandate call

    Fifteen minutes. We capture what you actually deploy into — including the things you will never look at. No pitch.

  2. Sample memo

    We write one redacted situation against your mandate, free, before you pay anything. You judge the standard on real work.

  3. Desk goes live

    We source against the mandate continuously and send only what clears it, with the reasoning attached.

  4. Register & review

    Every surfaced party is logged with a timestamp. Mandate reviewed quarterly, or whenever your buy-box moves.

Engagements

Monthly, cancel any time, no lock-in. The mandate call and the first sample memo are free regardless of which line you end up on.

Entry
$2,500 / month

For firms who want to see the standard before committing a desk.

  • Mandate on file, matched against the screened universe
  • Monthly digest of situations clearing your screen
  • Confidence band and evidence completeness on every record
  • Disqualifier notes on near-misses
  • Email support
Start with the mandate call
Most firms start here
$15,000 / month

A working desk sourcing proprietary situations against your written mandate.

  • Active origination — we go and find situations for your mandate, not just filter a list
  • Direct-to-owner sourcing before a process exists
  • Weekly screened situations with full reasoning
  • Written memo on every situation that clears
  • Origination register — timestamped attribution on every party surfaced
  • Quarterly mandate review, or on demand when your buy-box moves
  • Named point of contact
Book the mandate call
Principal desk
$25,000 / month

Everything above, plus we open the conversations for you.

  • Everything in the working desk
  • Named-principal approach — we make the first contact on your behalf
  • Warm handover into a live conversation, not a name on a list
  • Owner-readiness screen before you spend a day on diligence
  • Two mandates run in parallel
  • Priority turnaround
Book the mandate call
On success fees. Where a party we surfaced and logged in the register goes on to transact, we agree a success fee in writing before any introduction is made. The register is what makes that clean: it records who surfaced whom and when, so attribution is never a conversation had after the fact. Retainers can be credited against it.

What has already been done when it reaches you

The work below is the part your team would otherwise carry. It happens before a situation is put in front of you, which is the entire point of the engagement.

Before it reaches youWhat that means in practice
Relevance confirmedThe situation has been tested against your written mandate — sector, size, structure, geography and the exclusions that actually matter — not against a general idea of what you buy
Obvious disqualifiers clearedThe things that would end the conversation in week three are checked in week one. You are told what was rejected and why, not handed a longer list
Owner-level engagementWhere a situation clears, the owner has already been approached and intent established. What arrives is a conversation, not a name
Prioritised, not dumpedSituations arrive ranked, with the commercial considerations that matter to your thesis set out and the assumptions documented
Attribution on recordEvery party surfaced is logged and dated, so who introduced what is never a conversation had after the fact
On method. How situations are identified is our own. What we will say is that it does not depend on brokered processes, listing platforms or anything a competing buyer can subscribe to — which is why what reaches you has generally not reached them.

Start with the free part

Fifteen minutes on your mandate, then one written sample against it. If the standard is not obviously worth paying for, we will have cost you a quarter of an hour.

Book the mandate call