What Growth Alliance Capital does
We help founders sell their business quietly, with leverage and certainty. The process is NDA-first, with staged disclosure, screened buyers and anti-retrade close discipline.
The work rests on three parts:
- Buyer intelligence. A credible buyer universe, not a spray-and-pray list: financial capacity pre-qualified, strategic fit assessed, track record verified.
- Leverage and readiness. Process engineering to create competitive tension: parallel tracks, information control and closing readiness gaps before buyers find them.
- Anti-retrade close. Managing flow, diligence and emotion to prevent last-minute price drops.
Who we work with
Founders and owners of founder-led small and medium enterprises in Singapore and Southeast Asia who are thinking about selling their company. The process is built around what keeps founders up at night: word getting out to staff, competitors or customers before they are ready; a buyer dropping the price after due diligence; and selling to someone who destroys what they built or mistreats their team.
Track record
- S$200m+ in transactions closed since 2014. This is a career figure for co-founder Gwee Yi Chen, in Singapore dollars, including his years at Nihon M&A.
- S$750m in signed sell-side mandates, as at October 2026, in Singapore dollars, as an aggregate.
We name a client only with that client's consent.
How a sale runs
A sale runs in five stages. The full explanation, including share sale versus business sale and the stamp duty, tax, ACRA, employee and PDPA rules, is in our guide how to sell a company in Singapore.
- Preparation. An honest readiness assessment, a clean normalised EBITDA, clear positioning and a defined profile of the buyers who would pay most. The deliverables are an information memorandum, a data room and buyer criteria.
- Quiet marketing. A short, anonymous teaser goes to a screened list of buyers. Only those who sign a non-disclosure agreement and pass a capacity check see your name and numbers.
- Offers and the letter of intent. Interested buyers submit indicative offers. The aim is several credible bidders at the same time. You choose one to grant exclusivity under a letter of intent covering price, structure and key terms.
- Due diligence. The buyer and its advisers test the financials, contracts, tax, employees, legal and operational risk, with information requests run through a structured question-and-answer process.
- Completion. The sale and purchase agreement is negotiated and signed, conditions are satisfied, funds move and ownership transfers.
How we charge
You pay a retainer up front. Any success fee is paid only when you close.
Offer-or-Refund Promise
If we cannot generate at least one qualified written IOI/LOI from a screened buyer within 12 weeks after launch, we refund the upfront retainer fee.
Conditions apply, view details
For what advisers typically charge in the market, see our guide to M&A adviser fees in Singapore. Before you sign with anyone, our five questions to choose an M&A adviser will help.
Buyer reach
As at 8 October 2026, our buyer register maps 2,358 acquirers, including 406 private equity buyers. Only screened buyers receive the anonymous teaser, and none sees your name or numbers before signing a non-disclosure agreement and passing a capacity check. For who is buying Singapore SMEs, see the buyer appetite index, trade buyer vs private equity and selling to a Japanese or Korean acquirer.