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SHT 00 Deal Sourcing & Outsourced Acquisition Desk

Your acquisition pipeline. Organized, screened, and moving.

Damen Industries provides deal sourcing and outsourced acquisition-desk support for independent sponsors, acquisition entrepreneurs, family offices, strategic buyers, and owners pursuing add-ons. We turn scattered deal flow into clear decisions and next actions.

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Fixed-fee analytical and administrative support. Clients retain approval over outreach and transaction decisions.

Focus Roofing Electrical Plumbing Mechanical / HVAC Specialty Construction Essential Services
SHT 01 The Firm

Operators first. Investors by structure.

Damen Industries is a private acquisition group built around a simple conviction: the best returns in the lower middle market come from owning essential businesses well — not from financial engineering alone.

We pursue platform acquisitions and regional roll-ups in the skilled trades and essential services, working alongside institutional lenders and equity partners on every transaction. Our structures are designed around continuity: seller rollover, earnouts tied to real performance, and employment agreements that keep the people who built the business at the center of it.

Post-close, we bring what most sellers in these industries have never had access to — modern cloud infrastructure, unified dispatch and financial systems, and disciplined integration playbooks — so that the business that took decades to build is positioned for its next decade.

Damen also makes its sourcing, screening, and pipeline-management infrastructure available to aligned buyers through a fixed-fee outsourced acquisition desk.

Headquarters
Springfield, Illinois
Model
Independent sponsor · Institutional debt & equity partners
Horizon
Long-term ownership & regional consolidation
SHT 02 Outsourced Acquisition Desk

More judgment. Less pipeline drag.

Built for buyers with active deal flow and limited internal bandwidth. Damen organizes opportunities, surfaces missing evidence, and keeps every next action visible.

Deal Sourcing & Market Mapping

Defined target lists, intermediary coverage, opportunity intake, and disciplined qualification against your mandate.

Screening & CIM Review

Buy-box scoring, preliminary financial analysis, risk flags, and pursue, hold, monitor, or pass recommendations.

Diligence-Gap Analysis

Missing-information checklists covering earnings quality, concentration, working capital, owner dependence, licensing, and backlog.

Pipeline Management

Broker follow-up drafts, stage tracking, decision queues, stale-deal alerts, and concise weekly decision briefs.

SHT 03 72-Hour Acquisition Pipeline Audit

Turn active deal flow into a decision-ready action plan.

Damen reviews up to 10 opportunities or three substantive deal packages and delivers a ranked pipeline scorecard, risk flags, missing-information checklist, broker follow-up drafts, and prioritized next actions.

Deliverables
  • Buy-box alignment and opportunity scoring
  • Preliminary financial and CIM review
  • Earnings-quality and concentration flags
  • Diligence-gap checklist
  • Broker follow-up drafts
  • 30-minute findings call
Investment$2,500 fixed.

Guarantee. If the report does not identify at least three material risks, information gaps, or concrete next actions, you do not pay.

Request a Complimentary 20-Minute Pipeline Triage

Limited availability protects the 72-hour turnaround and quality of review.

SHT 04 Investment Criteria

What we look for.

We move quickly and decisively inside a defined buy box — and we're direct when a business sits outside it.

Acquisition SpecificationDAMEN-BB-01

Sectors

Roofing, electrical, plumbing, mechanical/HVAC, and specialty construction contractors; essential business services with recurring or contracted demand.

Financial Profile

Established SMBs with durable cash flow and clean adjusted EBITDA — typically $1M–$8M — with contracted backlog, service agreements, or repeat commercial relationships.

Geography

Midwest-anchored with national reach for the right platform. Priority to markets that support regional add-on consolidation.

Situation

Founder transitions, succession events, and owners seeking a partner for growth. Majority recapitalizations and full buyouts, with seller rollover welcomed.

Structure

Flexible, transparent structures: cash at close, rollover equity, performance earnouts, and seller financing where it aligns incentives on both sides of the table.

People

Management teams and field leaders who want to stay and build. Multi-year employment agreements for key operators are a feature of our deals, not an afterthought.

SHT 05 How We Work

A disciplined process, run the same way every time.

Phase I

Source, Screen & Prioritize

Direct outreach and intermediary relationships feed a rigorous screen. Every opportunity is assessed against the same standard: earnings-quality risk flags, customer concentration, backlog durability, and key-person risk.

  • Defined buy box, fast reads
  • IOI / LOI within days, not months
  • Clinical, respectful diligence
Phase II

Close & Transition

We run a milestone-driven process and communicate clearly as evidence, financing, and transaction conditions develop. Financing strategy and capital-partner alignment begin before an LOI is finalized, and diligence milestones are set on the calendar at day one — so sellers always know where the deal stands.

  • Capital-partner alignment
  • Milestone-driven timelines
  • Continuity for teams & customers
Phase III

Integrate & Scale

Post-close, a structured integration playbook installs modern systems — cloud infrastructure, unified financials, dispatch, and reporting — and connects the platform to add-on acquisitions in the region.

  • Cloud-native operating stack
  • KPI dashboards from day 30
  • Regional add-on pipeline
SHT 06 Leadership

Two founders. Complementary by design.

Justin Jones

Co-Founder · Principal — Sourcing & Integration

Justin leads deal origination, screening, and integration planning. With a background spanning general contracting, logistics, and operations, he evaluates service and construction businesses the way an operator does — from the field up, not the spreadsheet down. He structures each opportunity personally and stays close to it from sourcing through diligence.

Focus
Deal sourcing · Underwriting · Seller relationships · Integration planning

Todd Sparkman

Co-Founder · Partner — Technology & Infrastructure

Todd architects the technology stack behind the Damen platform. A cloud infrastructure engineer by trade, he designs the systems that replace the fragmented tooling typical of trade businesses with unified, cloud-native operations — financial consolidation, dispatch, reporting, and automation built to turn acquired companies into scalable regional platforms.

Focus
Infrastructure · Systems & reporting · Data · Operational automation
SHT 07 Working With Damen

Three ways to work with Damen.

Business Owners

If you've built a service or construction company and you're thinking about what comes next — full exit, partial sale, or a partner for regional growth — we'll give you a direct, honest read within days. No retrades, no games, and structures that respect what you built and the people who helped you build it.

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Intermediaries & Advisors

Brokers, bankers, and advisors: we respond to every teaser inside our buy box, submit IOIs quickly, and communicate clearly when we pass. We protect your process, your fee, and your relationship with the seller — and we communicate clearly throughout the process.

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Buyers & Sponsors

Hire Damen to source opportunities, screen active deal flow, identify diligence gaps, prepare broker follow-ups, and maintain a decision-ready pipeline without adding full-time analyst capacity.

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SHT 08 Start Here

Bring us the pipeline problem.

For a complimentary 20-minute pipeline triage, call or text with the word AUDIT, or email the Damen deal desk.

Text AUDIT Call (312) 914-0309 Email the Deal Desk
SHT 09 Contact

Every good deal starts with a straight conversation.

Whether you're an owner exploring a transition, an advisor with a mandate, or a capital partner evaluating the platform — reach out directly. We respond to every serious inquiry.

Damen Industries Inc.
Springfield, Illinois

Inquiries
(312) 914-0309
deals@damenindustries.com
www.damenindustries.com