Proprietary deal flow for acquirersmandate matching & priority routing
The most attractive companies are rarely listed. Unity finds owners who are privately considering a path — then matches the conversation to a written mandate and routes overlap by membership priority inside a defined review window.
An off-market acquisition is a private introduction — no listing site, no auction book, no manufactured deadline. The owner has not yet priced the company against competing bids. The buyer is not yet one of twelve names on a banker list.
That window is what proprietary deal sourcing exists to create. Structures that are hard in an auction — recapitalizations, minority investments, earnouts, rollovers — stay available when the conversation is bilateral. The lower middle market is where this still works.
Employees, customers, and competitors never see a listing. That is often the reason a founder will take a private conversation and refuse a marketed process.
Without competing bids anchoring expectations, terms can follow the business rather than the theater of an auction calendar.
Owners who enter voluntarily — not pushed by a fee-driven process — tend to be more forthcoming in diligence and more useful after close.
Share sector, size, geography, and structure. Unity originates privately. When several qualified mandates fit the same opportunity, review order follows membership, then fit, inside a defined window.
For acquirers
When several qualified buy-side mandates fit the same off-market opportunity, review order follows membership.
Not a public auction. Mandate-fit scoring still applies inside each tier.
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Platform membership is separate from any transaction success fee or advisory compensation under your acquisition agreement with Unity.
