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Buy-side M&A · for strategics & primes

Acquire a combat-proven Ukrainian defense company

You bring the acquisition mandate — a capability, a product line, a controlling stake. We source targets from inside the market, prepare them for a clean deal, and structure the hard part: a foreign acquisition of a sensitive defense asset. Buy-side M&A, run end to end by the operator on the ground.

Discuss your mandateEvery mandate under NDA
$35B
Combat-proven industry, opened to foreign capital
~900
Defense companies — most privately held
2026
Controlled exports opened — the market turned outward
Why acquire now

A capability you can own, before it's contested

The companies that proved themselves in a peer war are still private, still cheap, and not yet on anyone's radar. That window is the opportunity.

01

Proven, not promised

These companies iterated under fire — products fielded at scale, not roadmapped. You acquire capability that already works.

02

Barely capitalized

A $35B industry took ~$129M of venture in 2025. Valuations reflect a market the world hasn't priced in yet.

03

First mover owns the shelf

The best targets are acquired quietly, off-market. Once a public process starts, the control premium is gone.

How acquisition works

Mandate to close, on the ground

There is no shelf of companies to forward. A target is built against your mandate — from a call to a signed deal.

1

Tell us your mandate

Capability, segment, control level, check size and structure — on a call, under NDA.

2

We source inside the market

Off-market targets from clusters, Brave1 and founders we already know — matched to your mandate before any public process.

3

We prepare the target

Cap table, IP, export path and diligence readiness, built with our legal and finance partners — so what reaches you is deal-ready.

4

Structure, diligence & close

The acquisition structured for a foreign buyer of a defense asset, with the support to take it to signing and close.

The hard part

Structuring a foreign acquisition of a defense asset

Owning a Ukrainian defense company is not a standard M&A. The value is in getting the structure right — and that's what we do.

01

Control, cleanly held

A controlling stake or a full buyout, held in a structure a foreign owner can legally own, govern and exit — under Diia.City and the Defence City regime.

02

Security & export cleared

National-security review, export controls and dual-use mapping handled up front, so the deal survives diligence and the asset stays operable.

Every acquisition is scoped to your control level, your compliance regime and the target's security classification.

The cost of waiting

The capability is for sale now. The control premium isn't.

As the market matures and exports scale, valuations re-rate and strategics move in. The clean, off-market entry point is a window, not a standing offer.

Off-market window
Discretion

Under NDA, from the first name

Acquisitions move on discretion. No target is named, no mandate is shared, and no company is approached outside an NDA. What you're looking at, and who knows, stays controlled.

Bring us your acquisition mandate

Tell us the capability, the control level and the structure you're after. We'll come back with a scoped approach under NDA.

The capability is proven, private and open to foreign ownership. Acquire it before the market prices it in.

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