Corporate Development as a Service
Scalable M&A origination and execution for private equity and acquisitive corporates, delivered as an embedded extension of your team, on a retainer, with no success fees
Three integrated capabilities, sequenced to your strategy
Danescor delivers Corporate Development as a Service through market mapping, proprietary deal origination, and fractional corporate development engaged individually or as one programme.
Market Mapping
Custom, criteria-specific target universes built with data engineering and AI, then curated by seasoned M&A professionals.
Pricing · Fixed feeDeal Origination
Proprietary origination across research, structured outreach, and engagement — building and managing a qualified acquisition pipeline.
Pricing · Monthly retainerFractional Corp Dev
Support across evaluation and execution: financial modelling, valuation, investment thesis, and financial due diligence — scaled to deal flow.
Pricing · Hourly rateBuilt to fix what traditional M&A gets wrong
Fixed capacity constraints
Internal teams operate with fixed resources while acquisition pipelines fluctuate over time.
Scalable M&A support
Flexible resourcing ensures M&A capacity scales with transaction activity.
Fragmented market data
Accessing multiple disconnected data sources creates additional cost and friction.
Integrated data & technology
Danescor consolidates sources into a unified research and intelligence solution.
Manual workflow infrastructure
Many corporate development processes still rely on spreadsheets and manual research.
Modern M&A technology stack
AI-enabled research, data engineering, and a proprietary pipeline management platform.
Transaction-driven advisors
Success fees create misalignment between advisor incentives and client outcomes.
Outcome-aligned advisory
No success fees, Danescor stays aligned to outcomes, not transaction volume.
A disciplined, scalable approach to executing acquisition strategies with incentives aligned to outcomes.
Proven results across client programmes
We target best-fit, largely off-market opportunities to drive optimal return on acquisition.
Project Underhill
A PE-backed chemical distribution platform: 27 data sources analysed into a 2,400+ company universe, narrowed to 139 priority targets and taken into structured origination.
Project Aviator
An IT services buy-and-build to grow enterprise value ahead of exit, with acquisition-led growth far outpacing the original organic forecast.
Project Sandpiper
A PE-backed distributor of industrial products engaged Danescor across origination and execution, a 514-company universe with evaluation and closing workstreams run concurrently.
Proven across technology, business services & industrials
Technology Services
Broader technical capability and partnerships, wider geographic reach, and greater scale.
Business Services
Added scale, talent, new client relationships, and entry into new geographies.
Industrials
New geographies, adjacent product lines, and vertical integration along the value chain.
Consistently entering new sectors healthcare services and financial services by replicating our expertise.
Trusted by acquirers and platforms
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