BUSINESS ACQUISITION & SALE

For US business acquisition professionals

Keep your specialist role. Add an independent evidence resource.

You handle the transaction, advice, financing, valuation, brokerage or specialist assessment. We take on defined human-led documentary and public-source research that supports your work without pretending to replace your professional judgment.

Find your professional serviceCommission one research assignment

One written scope. Client authority respected. No invented referral arrangements or hidden transaction commissions.

Independent evidence, separate scopes

No membership fee, transaction commission or compulsory advance credit.

Purchase only the lawful factual research this matter needs. Seller-side, professional and owner assignments require a separate written fixed-scope proposal after conflict, licensing, capacity and source checks. Buyer offers and proposed standard fees are listed separately.

Buyer research standard fee proposals · Written invoicing terms

Commission or introduce

Choose the professional relationship that fits.

Direct research assignment

Your practice commissions a factual investigation under a defined scope and approved data-handling terms.

Independent buyer introduction

With permission, introduce a buyer who needs source-backed research. The buyer decides whether to purchase.

Scoped research desk

When repeat work is justified, set an agreed period, subjects, capacity, fees and reporting limits.

Find your professional role

A dedicated first offer for each acquisition specialist.

These are specific client-facing services, not claims that Aperture employs the professionals listed. Each page contains an applicable downloadable service PDF and a written enquiry route.

Professional evidence service

Business Brokers & M&A Intermediaries

A qualified buyer has questions about seller representations that the listing or standard broker package does not resolve.

Help your buyer obtain independent answers while protecting the broker's role and disclosures.

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Professional evidence service

Acquisition Advisers & Buyer Coaches

An adviser supports several active buyers but lacks dedicated capacity to investigate detailed claims and documentary histories.

Extend the depth of client research without hiring a permanent internal investigation department.

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Professional evidence service

CPAs & Financial Due Diligence Professionals

The engagement team needs historical entity facts, source reconciliation or external commercial verification beyond routine financial calculations.

Produce traceable supplemental facts so the CPA can concentrate on professional accounting judgments.

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Professional evidence service

Acquisition Attorneys & Transaction Counsel

Counsel needs a sourced corporate chronology, public record map or reconciled factual representations without diverting legal professionals from legal analysis.

Receive reproducible factual work for attorney evaluation, without outsourcing legal conclusions.

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Professional evidence service

SBA Acquisition Lenders & Commercial Bankers

A lender or banker requires selected external facts or documentary consistency before internal credit review.

Make agreed factual gaps visible to authorised lending staff without claiming underwriting authority.

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Professional evidence service

Acquisition Financing Advisers & Loan Brokers

A buyer struggles to organise seller records and distinguish supported information from assumptions during loan preparation.

Help buyers arrive at lender discussions with fewer undocumented questions.

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Professional evidence service

Business Valuation Professionals

The valuation specialist needs external facts on comparable firms, industry change or claimed commercial dependencies.

Create traceable inputs while the valuer retains methodology and opinions.

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Professional evidence service

Insurance Brokers & Commercial Risk Advisers

Risk advisers need a coherent factual profile of operations, assets and reported incidents before offering coverage recommendations.

Reduce missing operational facts without implying underwriting or insurance advice.

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Professional evidence service

Commercial Real Estate Professionals

The buyer relies on leased or owned premises while transfer rights, zoning history or recorded property facts remain unclear.

Surface public records and precise questions for property counsel and inspectors.

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Professional evidence service

Franchise Consultants & Acquisition Advisers

Prospective franchise buyers need independent clarity on franchisor history and claims in disclosure materials.

Prepare concrete FDD and source questions for qualified franchise counsel.

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Professional evidence service

Engineers, Equipment Appraisers & Inspectors

A technical specialist needs to know which claimed assets and maintenance histories warrant a physical check.

Focus physical inspection on supported, unverified or contradictory records.

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Professional evidence service

IT, Cybersecurity & Digital Business Specialists

A buyer may not actually control software, domains, platform accounts or key technical licences claimed to transfer.

Expose factual ownership and licence questions for technical and legal remediation.

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Professional evidence service

Industry Specialists & Operational Consultants

An operational specialist needs verifiable commercial history and industry context for a potential acquisition.

Strengthen specialist analysis with traceable dated external research.

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Professional evidence service

HR, Payroll & Employment Specialists

A buyer may inherit an operating business dependent on key employees and undocumented seller know-how.

Map staffing and knowledge dependencies without intruding into protected personal data.

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Professional evidence service

Escrow, Closing & Transaction Administrators

Closing participants may need a concise record of unresolved documentary factual matters before contractual deadlines.

Prevent research questions from disappearing between signed papers and ownership handover.

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Professional evidence service

Financial Planners & Wealth Advisers

A client proposes to commit personal assets to a business without having checked key seller facts independently.

Give the adviser business-specific facts while they retain responsibility for financial suitability advice.

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Professional evidence service

Acquisition Educators, Communities & Buyer Training Providers

Members can learn buying terminology but struggle to tell seller assertions from reliable source-backed facts.

Provide rigorous practical training materials without presenting educational examples as real clients.

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Download our professional reference pack

Concrete scope, source controls, evidence outputs, client consent and professional boundaries. No fictional case or unverified endorsement.

What happens before we accept work?

We test conflicts, lawful record access, US state or other jurisdiction licensing, specialist qualifications, privacy, data security, feasible timing and project economics. A human-approved written proposal describes the deliverables, limits, fee and any third-party work.

Important: No attorney-client privilege, audit assurance, credit underwriting, engineering sign-off or licensed private investigation is implied by a documentary research brief.

No mandatory advance funding

Commission only the evidence you need now.

The proposed research-credit programme is not active and is not required to commission a service. No bulk deposit or discount tier is offered through this acquisition section.

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Your next step

Request a written evidence proposal

Tell us the decision, relevant target or professional assignment, applicable state and actual deadline. A human reviews whether the work is suitable. You receive a clear written scope and fee before any paid assignment starts.

There is no obligation to purchase further work and no automatic upgrade.

Start in writing

Your answers stay in this browser until you open your email application. This page does not upload your details or send them to a server.

Press Send in your own email application. Do not attach confidential seller data until secure sharing is agreed. No call required.

Independent acquisition evidence for your client matter

Ask for source-indexed claim testing, pre-LOI contradictions, permit and ownership checks, or a documented closing-issues pack. We provide research evidence, not the regulated judgment of the deal adviser.

Paul Hattingh

Research direction and final evidence-quality approval

Xandro Hattingh

Written client communication, scope coordination and follow-up

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Support beyond the business purchase

Business owners and their advisers can return for independently verified supplier, market, customer, contract, technology and commercial evidence research as the business evolves.

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