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The Approach.

How we hunt, how we underwrite, how we operate, and how we compound. Five disciplined moves. No improvisation.

Deal Criteria

What a Dreamers deal looks like.

We are not generalists. The shape of the right deal is sharper than most acquirers will admit. If you are a seller, broker or operator, this is the lens we apply on the first read.

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Cash-Generative
$5M to $25M in EBITDA, with at least three years of audited or reviewed financials. Recurring or contractual revenue preferred. We will look at owner-operator-dependent businesses, but only when the seller is willing to remain through transition. Sub-scale opportunities are politely declined — we are a middle-market house, not a small-business buyer.
Required
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Defensible Position
Brand, distribution, regulatory moat, customer concentration in the right places. We do not chase commodity businesses unless we can roll them up to a position of structural power.
Required
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Aligned Seller
A seller who wants a serious counterparty, not the highest bidder. Willing to consider seller paper, retained equity or earnout structures that align outcomes over multi-year horizons.
Required
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Geographic Reach
Anchored by offices in Sydney, London and Edinburgh — covering the United Kingdom, Australia and the broader Asia-Pacific. Selective consideration of Ireland, continental Europe and New Zealand when an exceptional operator and asset combine. We do not pursue North American or emerging-market deals at this time.
Preferred
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Sectors of Conviction
Industrial services, B2B software with operating depth, specialty distribution, regulated services, niche consumer brands, infrastructure-adjacent operations. We avoid pre-revenue technology, capital-intensive resource development we cannot underwrite, and businesses dependent on a single regulator's whim.
Focus
The Acquisition Doctrine

From signal to signature.

01.

Source.

We hunt off-market through a triangulated network: operator referrals, sector-specialist brokers, and direct outbound led by the founder's office. The first filter on every deal is the seller's character — without it, the rest of the work is wasted.

02.

Diagnose.

Cash flow durability, customer concentration, key-man risk, working-capital architecture, regulatory posture and competitive moat. We look for the pattern that institutional capital is too rigid to underwrite — and that retail buyers are too inexperienced to operate.

03.

Structure.

We design transactions that survive contact with reality: earnouts indexed to the levers that matter, seller paper aligned to the cash engine, retained equity for the right operating sellers, and governance that keeps the discipline in place after close. Price matters. Structure matters more.

04.

Operate.

We install or partner with a CEO, set the operating cadence, protect the cash engine, and defend the culture we just bought. Our intervention is targeted, not theatrical. We do not break what works in pursuit of what flatters us.

05.

Compound.

Free cash flow is reinvested in operating capacity, bolt-on acquisitions and category leadership. We are biased to hold for decades. Exits, when they happen, are consequences — never objectives. That bias is what makes us a different kind of acquirer.

Equally Important

What we refuse to do.

The discipline of an acquirer is in the deals refused. A short list of postures Dreamers does not adopt — at any price.

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We do not flip.
We do not buy assets to dress them up for the next buyer. The arithmetic of compounding does not survive that posture.
Doctrine
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We do not advise from a deck.
We are not a brokerage. We are not a bank. We do not get paid to introduce you to one.
Doctrine
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We do not negotiate the standard.
The Chairman's standard is the firm's standard. The standard is non-negotiable. The deal terms are.
Doctrine
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We do not solicit publicly.
No public capital raise. No syndication broadcast. The right capital partners find the firm. That is not an accident — it is policy.
Doctrine
"Discipline is not the cost of compounding. It is the compounding."
— DIC House Doctrine, Rule III
If This Looks Like Your Deal

Then we should be in the same room.

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