Don't let one business acquisition
decision cost you years.
Buying the wrong business doesn't simply cost money — it can cost years of income, lost opportunity, unnecessary stress and capital that may never be recovered. The best buyers don't leave decisions like this to guesswork. Just as property buyers engage a buyer's advocate, WT Acquisitions provides independent buy-side advisory to help you identify better opportunities, avoid expensive mistakes, and buy with confidence.
WT provides independent buy-side acquisition advisory only. We do not act as business brokers, legal representatives, tax advisers or financial advisors.
Protect Your Capital
Avoid costly acquisition mistakes before committing significant money.
Avoid Wasted Years
Stop spending months or years chasing businesses that were never the right fit.
Buy With Confidence
Gain an experienced buy-side advisor challenging your thinking before major decisions.
What We Do
Buy-Side Advisory
WT is retained exclusively by buyers — we never act for sellers. Our role is to bring commercial rigour, structure and negotiation strength to your acquisition search, from first strategy through to Completion.
Acquisition Strategy & Sourcing
We define your Acquisition Criteria and search on-market and off-market, drawing on broker, accountant, lender and proprietary networks.
Opportunity Screening
Commercial review of information memoranda and financials, and early identification of risks and red flags worth investigating further.
Offers & Negotiation
We prepare NBIOs, EOIs and heads of agreement, and lead commercial negotiation with vendors on your behalf.
Due Diligence Coordination
We coordinate your lawyers, accountants, tax advisers and lenders through due diligence, Completion and early transition.
The Engagement
How It Works
Discovery Call
A confidential conversation about your acquisition goals, budget and timeframe.
Engagement & Acquisition Criteria
We formalise the engagement and document the Acquisition Criteria that will guide the search.
Search & Screening
WT sources and commercially screens opportunities against your criteria on an ongoing basis.
Offer & Negotiation
We prepare offers and negotiate commercial terms directly with vendors and their advisers.
Due Diligence
WT coordinates your professional advisers through legal, financial and commercial due diligence.
Completion & Transition
We support you through settlement and the first steps of ownership transition.
Investment
A Simple, Aligned Fee Structure
Our fees combine an ongoing retainer for priority access to senior advisory time, and a success fee that is only payable once you actually complete an acquisition — so our incentives stay aligned with yours.
Monthly Acquisition Retainer
Payable monthly in advance. Six (6) month minimum engagement.
Completion Success Fee
Payable only on Completion, on a tiered scale of Enterprise Value. Minimum fee of $75,000 + GST applies.
Minimum Completion Success Fee of $75,000 + GST applies to any single completed transaction. A portion of recent retainer fees is credited back against the success fee on Completion — details in your engagement agreement.
Beyond Fee-For-Service
The Deal Partner Model
For the right transaction, WT's preferred model is strategic alignment through an agreed equity participation, recognising our contribution to sourcing, structuring, negotiation and post-acquisition value creation.
WT and the client negotiate in good faith an agreed equity participation ("sweat equity") tied to a specific transaction.
Neither party is obliged to reach agreement — expressing interest doesn't commit either side to a percentage, structure or valuation.
Any agreed arrangement is fully documented in a separate, definitive Deal Participation Agreement negotiated on arm's-length terms.
Equity participation must be agreed and documented no later than execution of binding vendor transaction documents — a full cash Completion Success Fee applies automatically if that window is missed.
The term "Deal Partner" is a commercial description only — it does not itself create a partnership, joint venture, agency or fiduciary relationship.
Equity participation arrangements may involve financial products or financial product advice under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and may carry significant tax consequences. WT does not hold an Australian Financial Services Licence and does not provide financial product advice. Independent legal, tax and financial advice is strongly recommended before entering any equity participation arrangement.
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