Dealsphere, the M&A deal sourcing and intelligence platform

The teaser that lands at random

Investment bankers send you sale teasers opportunistically, testing your appetite for sectors “close” to yours — without precisely knowing your acquisition criteria. The result: a flow of off-target opportunities that takes time to sort, and the feeling of missing what really matters.

A network limited by your diary

Your M&A address book comes down to the few interactions your working week allows you to maintain. Every missed conversation is a slice of the market that slips away: the network you keep up is sized by your available time, not by your strategic ambition.

A track record, but no mandate

Every adviser who approaches you showcases a deal history and technical expertise — without necessarily holding a sell-side mandate in your sector today. You invest relationship time in people who do not have the information you are looking for.

Dealsphere continuously aggregates the acquisition, sale and financing deals completed in your business sectors and target countries: LBOs, build-ups, venture capital, IPOs. For each deal, you see the parties involved, the date, the country and the context of the transaction.

The dashboard gives you an immediate reading of market dynamics: volumes by period, rankings of the most active acquirers and sellers, geographic trends. You see who is consolidating, who is diversifying, and how fast — in other words, where the competition in your sector is playing out. An essential reading for steering an acquisitive growth strategy.

For each deal identified, Dealsphere extracts the professionals who worked on it and organises them in a directory structured around five professions: lawyers, auditors, investment bankers, lending banks and investment funds. Five complementary perspectives on your market — and five channels through which mandates circulate.

Each contact is therefore qualified by data: these are not professionals who present themselves as experts in your sector, but professionals whose deals prove that they genuinely operate in it, in the countries you are interested in. A valuable lens when choosing the adviser who will lead your M&A deal.

Each dealmaker's profile is automatically linked to the deals they took part in: dates, buyers, sellers, countries involved. In an instant you see their real playing field, the companies they have advised and how close they are to your market.

Each profile includes the professional's direct email and phone number. No more switchboard gatekeepers, no more months of gradual approach: you reach the right person directly, with a legitimate reason — the deals they have completed in your sector.

From each profile, start the discussion via LinkedIn without leaving the platform. Dealsphere provides message templates — including the teaser of your own acquisition criteria — which you personalise and send in a few clicks. Replies are centralised in the built-in messaging, which keeps the history of every relationship.

Your strategy thus becomes visible to the right professionals: those who operate in your sector now know precisely what you are looking for. When a mandate matching your criteria comes up, they think of you — before your competitors.

Filters by country, sector and profession let you generate tailored dealmaker lists: the funds active in your segment in Italy, the lawyers on the latest sales in your industry in France, the banks financing your competitors. Each list can be shared in one click, via a web link, with the members of your company.

A PDF export is available at any time, for your committees, strategy reviews or business trips. This collective dimension echoes a point we develop in our article on the role of teamwork in an M&A deal: team coordination directly determines the success of a transaction.

Dealsphere gives you a dedicated URL for receiving opportunities: your colleagues in the field and the professionals in your network upload their teasers there, instead of burying them in email inboxes. Each opportunity is notified to the relevant colleagues, who assess it against a consistent grid: strategic fit, size, geography, value creation, risks.

Collaborative assessment structures the go/no-go, keeps the history of each file and documents the rationale for every decision — robust governance you can defend before your executive committee. To go further on how to analyse a target, read our article How to assess an acquisition opportunity

You do not just get access to a platform. You are supported by a professional who turns information into next steps, keeps the project moving and stays engaged with you.

Since 2017, Collaboration Capital has advised companies and groups on acquisitions, sales and financing, in France and internationally. The firm's family ownership is a guarantee of stability and trust, serving the long-term interests of its clients and partners. Discover our client references and examples of completed deals.