Acquisition diagnostic: is your buyout project viable?

The diagnostic cross-references several dimensions specific to acquisition to measure the strength of your project:

• Your acquirer profile: sector experience, management skills, ability to lead an existing team.
• Your financial capacity: available personal contribution, borrowing capacity, access to co-financing.
• Fit with the target: size, sector, dependence on the selling owner, apparent state of the accounts.
• Overall risk level: customer concentration, age of the business, social climate, key contracts transferable or not.

The result does not decide for you: it is a snapshot of feasibility, meant to inform your next steps.

A start-up diagnostic focuses on the existence of a market and the strength of a new offer. In an acquisition, the market already exists: the focus shifts to the quality of the acquired asset and the owner's transition.

The acquisition diagnostic therefore includes questions absent from a start-up diagnostic: dependence on the seller, transferability of contracts, state of the order book, social risks and hidden liabilities.

Business-transmission conditions differ widely between member states: transfer regimes, legal guarantees, taxation. The diagnostic takes your country into account to guide its recommendations without assuming a France-centred framework.

Whether you are acquiring a shop in Lisbon, an industrial SME in Germany or a services company in Warsaw, the diagnostic stays relevant and points you to the right next steps.

Once the diagnostic is done, you know where to focus your efforts. Depending on the results, you will be directed to the target market study, the post-acquisition forecast, the seller audit or the financing structure.

The diagnostic is free and requires no sign-up to get a first result.