Learn M&A and get paid $25K to $45K per deal buying businesses for other people.

Someone sells a business, they have a broker. Someone buys one, they have nobody. That gap is the job, and you can learn it without a finance degree or fifteen years in a bank.

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

The trap

The old way in takes fifteen years. Most people never get near a real deal.

No way in without the pedigree

The right degree, the right internship, the right surname. Miss one and the door doesn't open.

Fifteen years of waiting your turn

Analyst to associate to director. A decade of dues before anyone hands you a deal.

Someone else banks your fee

You source it, you work it, and the firm takes the money. You get a salary.

Your income is set by a band

Not by what you're worth or what you close. By a pay scale someone else decides.

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.

How the business is built

Four levers. One path from your first client to your own firm.

Everything you build sits on four moves. Learn them in order, and each one takes you up a belt.

Attract

Get in front of buyers who need someone on their side.

Convert

Turn a conversation into a signed mandate.

Deliver

Find, verify, negotiate and close the deal, and get paid at settlement.

Scale

Do more deals, build a team, turn yourself into a firm.

This is the same framework used to build real businesses, applied to one that pays you $25K to $45K a deal.

Who teaches this

I did the 20+ years so you don't have to.

Twenty years in finance, four banks, deals on the desk every week. The skill that gets a deal done is a process. It takes months to learn, not fifteen years. The fifteen years is for waiting your turn. So I left, and I've been doing the deals the banks were too big to touch ever since.

Head of Strategy, Asia PacificCiti
Head of FinanceMacquarie
Head of Performance AnalyticsLloyds
Executive Manager, Corporate BankingCommonwealth Bank

CPA · $500m+ of businesses reviewed

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

Watch the free masterclass and see exactly how it works.

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Become a Business Buyer's Agent

Business Buyers Institute

Business Buyers Institute provides education and training only. It is not a registered training organisation (RTO), and this program is not nationally recognised or accredited training. Nothing on this page is financial, legal, taxation or investment advice. Becoming a business buyer's agent may require a licence depending on your state, and confirming and holding the right licence is your responsibility. Outcomes depend on the individual and are not guaranteed. The figures shown describe potential fees per deal, not earnings you will or are likely to receive. They are not a guarantee or projection of income. What you earn, if anything, depends on your own effort, skill, market and circumstances. Many people who start something like this make little or no money. Seek independent professional advice before acting. Available to Australian residents.