Market intelligence

Corporate Development

Turn strategic priorities into a live acquisition universe, with the ownership detail needed to approach it.

Use cases

Build your acquisition pipeline withunparalleled private market intelligence.

01

Build and rank acquisition target lists

Your acquisition criteria, turned into a live list of real candidates. Latency maps every company that fits by activity, geography, size and ownership, then ranks them by strategic fit rather than by who happens to be for sale.

  • Find companies by what they actually do
  • Several directions at once, including suppliers
  • Ranked on explicit strategic fit
  • Revenue, margin, ownership and likelihood to transact
  • The list stays current as accounts are filed
02

Analyse a target in depth and assess its fit

Analyse the company first, then judge the fit. Because Latency merges every source into one place, the full picture of a target is there from minute one: what it does, how it performs, who controls it, where it complements you and where it clashes.

  • The company in full, year by year
  • Fit across customers, geography, product, size
  • The points of friction made explicit
  • Read against its own market
  • A precise initial view in minutes
03

Identify strategic adjacencies

Look one step out from what you already do. Latency maps the activities sitting next to your core, the neighbouring service line, the component you buy in, the channel that owns your customer, and the real companies operating in each of them.

  • Adjacencies built from what companies really do
  • Upstream and downstream both covered
  • Size, growth and distance from your core
  • The companies you could acquire in each
  • Build or buy, answered with evidence
04

Find new expansion opportunities

Decide where to go next on evidence rather than instinct. Latency sizes every market you could enter from the companies inside it: how much volume there is, how concentrated it is, who already operates there and what buying in would cost.

  • Each market built bottom-up from accounts
  • Who is already there, private ones included
  • Concentration shows room for a new entrant
  • Acquire, partner or build, with candidates named
  • Compare markets on identical terms
05

Monitor trends in your target markets

Stay across the markets on your roadmap without checking them by hand. Latency watches the transactions, the filed results and the news in each one, and tells you what actually changed, with the companies behind every move.

  • Ownership moves as they are filed
  • Competitor performance as accounts land
  • News, launches and new sites
  • New entrants and companies leaving
  • Every alert linked to its source document
06

Reach target-company decision-makers

Know who to approach at each target before you make contact. Latency combines the officers filed at the registry with professional media profiles, so the owner, the managing director and the CFO are identified, with email or phone where available.

  • Who actually controls the target
  • Registry roles reconciled with professional profiles
  • Direct email and phone where available
  • Role, tenure and other directorships shown
  • The same view for every target