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Sometimes the fastest way in is a purchase.

For companies acquiring local operators, assets or licences across the four countries: target screening, legal and financial due diligence, deal structuring, SPA negotiation and closing support — staged so you can stop after any stage.

Stages3screen · diligence · transaction — each with its own written price
Exit pointsevery stageyou proceed, renegotiate or walk; spend matches the stage used
Success fee0%no percentage of the deal — the advice and the invoice point the same way
Target's tax10–18%corporate rates across the four countries — the arithmetic behind the multiples
Scenarios

When buying beats building.

Three acquisition patterns dominate the region's mid-market — and all three live or die on diligence quality:

Licences

The regulated shortcut

The target's real asset is its licence, concession or permit portfolio. Diligence must prove the licence survives the change of ownership — otherwise you are buying stationery.

Assets

Plant, fleet, portfolio

Production sites, vehicle fleets, real-estate portfolios. Often cleaner as an asset deal — if title, encumbrances and employee transfer rules are mapped before the offer, not after.

Succession

The retiring owner

A generation of founders is exiting across the region. Good businesses, informal books. The gap between the two is exactly what the diligence stage is for.

Process

The deal, in stages.

Each stage ends with a written deliverable and a decision point. You proceed, renegotiate, or walk — with your money matching the stage you actually used.

01

Screen the target

Registry, litigation, insolvency and reputation checks before anyone signs an NDA. Fast, cheap, and occasionally the end of the story — which is the point.

02

Due diligence

Legal, financial and tax review sized to the deal. The output is a red-flag report in plain business language: what is broken, what it costs to fix, what should change the price.

03

Structure and negotiate

Share deal or asset deal, price mechanics, warranties that actually bite in a local court, escrow where trust is thin. We negotiate alongside you or lead under mandate.

04

Close and register

Signing, funds flow, ownership registration, licence re-confirmation and post-closing filings. The deal is done when the registry says so — not at the dinner.

The deal, stage-gated

Each stage ends in a written deliverable and a decision. Walking away is a designed outcome, not a failure.

01Screenregistry · litigation · reputationexit point02Diligencered-flag report, pricedexit point03Structure & SPAshare vs asset · warrantiesexit point04Closeregistration · post-closing

The diligence stage exists to be cheap relative to the mistake it prevents.

Case notes

How this plays out in the region.

Two case notes from the practice this service is built on — international owners, regional facts, and the method doing its job.

Austrian buyer · environmental services

The licence was the deal

The situation

An Austrian operator moved to buy a regional waste-management company for its permit portfolio, structured as an asset deal for balance-sheet reasons.

The work

Stage-two diligence established that the key permits would not survive an asset transfer — they died with the operating entity. The deal was rebuilt as a share purchase, with an escrow sized to the legacy tax exposure the share deal now inherited.

The outcome

Closed — with the price reduced by the quantified exposure and the permits intact. The asset-deal version would have bought a fleet of trucks and a queue at the licensing office.

Diaspora buyer · metal fabrication · Bosnia

Retiring founder, informal books

The situation

A second-generation diaspora buyer returned for a solid Bosnian workshop whose founder was retiring. Real orders, real margins — and accounts that understated both, in the local tradition.

The work

Diligence reconstructed true earnings from bank flows, order books and input purchases; the gap between books and reality was priced into an earn-out, with an 18-month founder handover tied to customer retention.

The outcome

Revenue held through the transition; the earn-out paid in full — the founder's incentive and the buyer's protection turned out to be the same clause.

Case notes are composites: drawn from real regional practice, with details merged and anonymised. They illustrate the method — no two engagements, and no two outcomes, are identical.

Pricing

Priced per stage, per deal.

Every deal gets a written scope per stage: screening, diligence, transaction. You commit stage by stage — nobody pays transaction fees for a deal that dies in diligence. Fees are fixed per stage wherever the target's data room allows it.

The rule

No success-fee theatre. We do not take a percentage of the deal, so we have no incentive to push a closing that diligence argues against. The advice and the invoice point in the same direction.

One desk

Usually paired with.

Each service reuses the documents, translations and KYC already in your file — the second engagement is always faster than the first.

Scoped work is quoted once, in writing, with a named deliverable and a deadline — the quote does not move after you accept it. Payment is processed by Stripe; the invoice is issued by Voixa Consultors S.L.

Start here

Bring us the target. Keep the certainty.

Send a short brief — target, country, rough size, what worries you. We answer with a staged scope and a price for the first stage in writing.