Business Buyers Institute — Learn M&A, Get Paid Per Deal
Business Buyers Institute

Build a $250k+ a year lifestyle business buying businesses for other people.

Own your time, your income and your terms. Twelve weeks to certified, then a business that funds the life you actually want. No degree, no experience, and almost nothing to set up.

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Taught by Sanjay Pandaram. Twenty years at Citi, Macquarie, Lloyds and Commonwealth Bank.
The opportunity

Everyone selling a business has someone in their corner. Nobody is helping the buyers.

Australians are getting paid very well to stand on the buyer's side of that table. There is enormous demand, almost nobody doing it, and next to nothing to set up.

Huge demand

A generation of owners is retiring and selling. Buyers everywhere, and hardly any of them have anyone representing them.

Almost no competition

Every seller has a broker, an accountant and a lawyer. The buyer, who is the one with the money, usually has nobody at all.

Nothing to set up

No premises, no staff, no stock, no equipment. A laptop and an internet connection, and you are trading.

Paid on every deal

A percentage of the transaction, paid by your client at settlement. No ceiling and no pay band.

This is not a new opportunity. It is an old profession that almost nobody has bothered to enter.

The opportunity

What the hell is a business buyer's agent?

Every day people buy businesses, and almost all of them do it alone. The seller has a broker working for them. The buyer has nobody. A buy-side advisor is the person on the buyer's side: finds the business, checks the numbers, runs the negotiation, and drives it to settlement.

The broker works for the seller, and gets paid more when the price goes up. You work for the buyer. That's the whole job.

Why a lifestyle business

A business built to support your life, not consume it.

You have already done the hard part. Twenty-odd years of showing up, and it bought a good life, except the one thing you actually wanted. This is the version where the work pays for the life instead of taking it.

Your time

You decide when you work and who with. No approvals, no annual leave forms, no calendar full of other people's priorities.

Your income

Paid a percentage of every deal you close. No band, no ceiling, and no case to make to anyone before it goes up.

Your terms

Low set-up costs, no premises, no staff and no stock. A laptop, an internet connection, and clients anywhere.

Something that's yours

An asset with your name on it that doesn't disappear in the next restructure, and that you can one day sell.

This is what people mean when they say they want freedom. Not a beach. Just the right to decide.

Sanjay Pandaram, The M&A Mentor
Taught by

Sanjay Pandaram, The M&A Mentor

Twenty years inside Citibank, Macquarie, Lloyds International, Commonwealth Bank, Rabobank and Oryx. He left to do the deals the institutions were too big to bother with, and now teaches every intake personally.

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You don't need twenty years. You need twelve weeks and the nerve to start.

Watch the training and see exactly how it works, then apply if it is for you.

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