Calder Buyside Services

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by a searcher from University of Southern California
in Los Angeles, CA, USA

1yr ago

Calder Buyside Services

Hi,
I came across Calder Brokerage, which is based in the Midwest and offers buy-side services. They charge a hefty fee for their services. I want to acquire a business in Southern California (LA/OC area). I wanted to find out if anyone has used their buy-side services and what the Pros and Cons may be you may be able to share.
Thanks

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reply by an intermediary 1yr ago
from Vanderbilt University in Dallas, TX, USA

Hi Imran - I work at Calder so am admittedly biased. But, if you'd like to learn more about our buyside service I'm happy to discuss. redacted Here are two nice datapoints:
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reply by a searcher 1yr ago
from Harvard University in Denver, CO, USA

I’ve used Calder and they’ve found us prospects in Texas, CA, UT, etc. Also, they’ve been really helpful in introducing us to potential equity capital providers now that we’ve got a couple deals under LOI. The fees are not cheap but they credit some portion of the monthly cost toward the success fee, and the success fee is pretty market-based IMO. We still did our own proprietary sourcing but Calder accelerated our pipeline.