Confidential M&A Advisory
Confidential business sales. Intelligent outcomes.
Lexmore combines experienced transaction guidance with AI-assisted workflows to help business owners prepare, position, and confidentially market their companies — without disclosing who they are until they choose to.
Why Lexmore
Selling a company is a confidentiality problem before it is a valuation problem.
Employees, customers, competitors, and suppliers all have an interest in knowing. Most owners cannot afford for any of them to find out early. Everything below follows from that.
Confidential
Your company is marketed anonymously. Identity is released only to parties you approve, under a signed agreement, and every release is recorded.
Secure
Access is authenticated and two-factor protected. Documents are released in stages on your authority, with an audit record of who accessed what.
Structured
A defined process from preparation through closing, so you always know what stage you are at and what happens next.
AI-assisted
Software handles organisation, completeness checking, and consistency — the work that is slow and error-prone by hand.
Human-guided
Valuation reasoning, negotiating position, and buyer selection stay with experienced people. Software does not make those calls.
Professional
Materials prepared to the standard institutional buyers and their advisers expect to receive.
Our Process
Nine stages, in order.
Each stage has a defined output and a decision point. Nothing advances without your authorisation.
Preparation
We establish what a sale would involve for you before anything is committed to. Objectives, timing, and the shape of an acceptable outcome are agreed first, because every later decision refers back to them.
Business Assessment
A structured review of financial performance, customer concentration, operations, and management depth. The purpose is to surface what a buyer will find during diligence while there is still time to address it.
Valuation
An evidence-based view of value, with the reasoning shown. You see the assumptions and the ranges, not a single number presented without context.
Market Readiness
Gaps identified in assessment are closed and the supporting record is assembled. A business that enters the market prepared negotiates from a materially stronger position.
Confidential Marketing
Your company is presented to the market without being identified. Interested parties see an anonymised profile and receive nothing further until they are qualified and under a signed agreement.
Buyer Matching
Interest is filtered against acquisition criteria, funding capability, and strategic fit. The objective is a small number of credible conversations, not a long list of enquiries.
Due Diligence
Information is released in stages, on your authority, through a controlled and audited process. You see who accessed what, and when.
Letter of Intent
Terms are negotiated with the structure, conditions, and consequences set out plainly, so nothing in the document is a surprise later.
Closing Support
Coordination through final diligence, legal documentation, and completion, including the transition arrangements that follow it.
Industries
Sectors we work in.
Different sectors fail diligence in different ways. These are the ones where we can be specific about what buyers will ask.
Why Owners Choose Lexmore
What you get that you would otherwise assemble yourself.
Preparation before exposure
Issues a buyer would find in diligence are surfaced while you still have time to address them, rather than during a negotiation where they become price reductions.
Valuation you can interrogate
A reasoned range with the assumptions visible. You can see what moves the number, which matters more than the number.
Control over disclosure
You decide who learns your identity and what they receive at each stage. The platform enforces it and keeps the record.
Fewer, better conversations
Buyers are qualified on criteria, funding, and fit before they reach you. The objective is credible interest, not volume.
One record, start to finish
Preparation, evidence, diligence, and negotiation live in one place, so nothing is reconstructed from email at the point it matters most.
Judgement when it counts
Experienced guidance at the decisions that determine outcome, not a self-service tool with a support queue.
Buyer Network
Qualified buyers, not enquiries.
An anonymised profile reaches the market. What happens next is filtering, and it happens before anything reaches you.
Registration
Buyers state acquisition criteria, sector focus, size range, and intended structure.
Qualification
Funding capability and acquisition history are reviewed before access to any opportunity.
Confidentiality
A signed agreement precedes the release of any identifying information.
Staged access
Information is released progressively, on the seller's authority, with every access recorded.
The AI Advantage
An assistant, not a decision-maker.
We are specific about this because the distinction matters when the stakes are your company.
What the software does
Organises evidence and keeps it linked to the claims it supports. Checks that supporting records are complete and internally consistent. Surfaces the questions a buyer is likely to ask. Tracks what has been released, to whom, and when. Removes the administrative drag that makes preparation take longer than it should.
What people do
Interpret what the numbers mean for value. Decide negotiating position and when to hold it. Judge which buyer is credible and which is wasting your time. Advise on structure and its consequences. Read the room in a negotiation.
No automated system decides what your business is worth, which buyer to engage, or what terms to accept. Those are judgement calls, and judgement is the part you are actually engaging us for.
Client Success Stories
Awaiting verified client stories.
We do not publish testimonials we cannot verify, and we do not publish client information without written consent. This section will be populated as completed engagements are approved for release.
Awaiting verified story
Sector, transaction profile, and outcome — published only with written client consent.
Awaiting verified story
Sector, transaction profile, and outcome — published only with written client consent.
Awaiting verified story
Sector, transaction profile, and outcome — published only with written client consent.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions owners ask first.
Will anyone know my business is for sale?
Not without your authorisation. Your company is presented to the market anonymised. A buyer sees an industry, a region, and a financial profile -- not a name. Identity is released only to parties you have approved, after they are qualified and under a signed confidentiality agreement, and every release is recorded.
How long does a sale usually take?
Preparation typically runs one to three months depending on how much needs addressing, and a well-prepared process commonly runs six to nine months from going to market through to completion. Timelines vary considerably with size, sector, and readiness, and we would rather set expectations against your circumstances than quote an average.
What is my business worth?
That depends on earnings quality, customer concentration, management depth, growth outlook, and what comparable businesses have actually transacted for. We provide a reasoned range with the assumptions visible, so you can see what moves the number rather than being handed a figure to take on trust.
Do I have to commit to selling to begin?
No. Many owners begin with preparation years before a transaction, or to understand their position without acting on it. Nothing goes to market until you authorise it.
What does the AI actually do?
It handles structure and consistency: organising evidence, checking that supporting records are complete, surfacing issues a buyer is likely to raise, and keeping the process moving. Judgement calls -- valuation reasoning, negotiating position, which buyer to engage -- remain with experienced people. See the AI Advantage section for the boundary.
Who sees my financial information?
Only parties you authorise, at the stage you authorise. Diligence material is released in stages rather than as a single package, and the platform records who accessed which document and when.
What does it cost?
Fees depend on the size and complexity of the engagement. We set them out in writing before any agreement, and there are no charges for an initial confidential conversation.
Start a confidential conversation
Tell us a little about your situation. Everything you share is treated as confidential, and an initial conversation carries no obligation.