Buy Profitable Business Units Free of Debt.
3 Weeks Before They Reach Broker Desks.
Over 7,000 European companies enter administration or restructuring every month. Their customer contracts, plant machinery, workforces, and IP can be acquired at 60% to 85% discounts through clean-title court orders. AcquireEU crawls official gazettes across 32 European jurisdictions daily, delivering direct liquidator contacts while competitors remain unaware.
The "Silver Tsunami" Deal Flow
For Search Funds, M&A Brokers & Small-Cap PE. Screen €1M–€25M revenue companies where founders are aged 60–75 with no registered family successors. Direct founder outreach, positive equity, zero liquidation noise.
Court Administrations & 363 Assets
For Turnaround Funds, Special Sits PE & Corporate Acquirers. Buy operating divisions, heavy tooling, real estate, and IP free and clear of historic debt. Direct appointed trustee and liquidator contact dossiers.
Recent Distressed Ingestion Feed (Click to Inspect Record)
| Jurisdiction & Source | Target Enterprise & Sector | Procedure & Status | Perimeter / Details | Appointed Practitioner / Court | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
🇪🇸 Spain Official Court Registry (306/2026) | MOLINERA ASTUR SL General Business | Administration ⏱️ Active Case File | Registered in Asturias. Clean-title statutory proceeding. | ITER CONCURSAL SLP Court-Appointed Custodian / Liquidator | View File → |
🇪🇸 Spain Official Court Registry (500/2026) | MOLDES URA SOCIEDAD LIMITADA General Business | Administration ⏱️ Active Case File | Registered in País Vasco. Clean-title statutory proceeding. | GUTIERREZ ALLUE IÑIGO Court-Appointed Custodian / Liquidator | View File → |
🇪🇸 Spain Official Court Registry (275/2026) | COBUSA 2005 SOCIEDAD LIMITADA EN LIQUIDACION General Business | Liquidation ⏱️ Active Case File | Registered in País Vasco. Clean-title statutory proceeding. | Official Court Registry Appointed Liquidator Court-Appointed Custodian / Liquidator | View File → |
🇩🇰 Denmark itvang.dk | Æblevangen 5, 9330 Dronninglund Commercial Real Estate Auction | Judicial Asset Auction ⏱️ Date: 11/16/2026 | Court-mandated liquidation sale. | Official Court Bailiff / Auctioneer itvang.dk | View File → |
The M&A Broker Pipeline Is Broken. Here Is Where Deals Actually Happen.
Waiting for teasers from boutique corporate finance shops means competing against 150 funds at inflated valuations. Primary-source gazette intelligence puts you directly in bilateral talks with the administrator.
- •Day 1–14: Distressed company hires broker. Weeks pass drafting an Information Memorandum (IM).
- •Day 15–30: Teaser distributed to 100+ generic buyer lists. Word leaks to staff, suppliers, and competitors.
- •Bidding War: Artificial auction process forces entry multiples to 5x–7x EBITDA.
- •Balance Sheet Risk: Complex share purchases risk inheriting unknown historical liabilities and tax audits.
- •05:00 CET: Court filing published in national gazette (BODACC, Companies House, InsO).
- •07:30 CET: AcquireEU delivers practitioner dossier (direct email, phone, case ID) to your inbox.
- •Bilateral Discussion: You submit an indicative Expression of Interest (EOI) before an auction is formed.
- •Statutory Clean Title: Court order extinguishes historical debt, allowing clean asset carve-out at 0.2x–0.4x revenue.
4 High-Stakes Playbooks Used by Elite Dealmakers
How private equity funds, search operators, and corporate development desks generate outsized ROI using AcquireEU.
The Bolt-On Roll-Up Machine
Acquire distressed direct competitors across Europe to fold into portfolio platforms. Carve out client lists, plant tooling, and certified engineers without acquiring duplicate SG&A.
The Sub-2x EBITDA Entry
Acquire an enduringly profitable SME trapped under an unmanageable balance sheet via German Schutzschirmverfahren or French Redressement. Step in as CEO at a rock-bottom entry multiple.
Turnaround Mandate Origination
Identify corporate borrowers entering early restructuring (UK Moratorium, Spanish Pre-Concurso, Dutch WHOA). Pitch interim management, debt advisory, or accelerated M&A retainers 48 hours after filing.
Judicial Auction Arbitrage
Acquire commercial logistics hubs, production facilities, and machinery fleets out of Italian, Belgian, Dutch, and Croatian bankruptcy auctions at steep discounts to replacement cost.
How to Acquire Operating Assets Free of Debt in Europe
Unlike share acquisitions where buyers inherit unquantified balance sheet liabilities, European statutory court sales legally sever historic debts.
Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) agreed prior to formal appointment and executed immediately.
Customer order book, operating equipment, intellectual property, designated workforce (under TUPE).
All historical unsecured debt, bank credit lines, and HMRC tax arrears (extinguished against the old shell).
Commercial Court orders judicial transfer of all or part of the business units to a third-party bidder.
Selected commercial contracts, production assets, real estate leases chosen by buyer.
100% of pre-judgment supplier debt, tax claims, and litigation liabilities (cancelled by court decree).
Debtor-in-possession protective shield enabling structured asset carve-out supervised by court Sachwalter.
Machinery park, operating facility, customer agreements, specialized engineering IP.
Historic pension deficits, legacy financial debt, past supplier litigation.
Pre-insolvency cross-class cram-down restructuring and clean-perimeter asset transfers.
Healthy operational subsidiaries, logistics infrastructure, core operating revenues.
Restructured, settled, or extinguished debt tranches across subordinate creditor classes.
Expedited sale of autonomous productive units approved by mercantile court judge.
Autonomous operating division, active customer base, operational plant and equipment.
All historical bank financing, past tax debts (with carve-outs), and non-assumed liabilities.
Query 105,000+ Filings Directly in Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT
Screen carve-outs against your exact investment thesis, extract liquidator contacts, and draft custom bilingual Letters of Intent directly in your AI assistant via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Connect live filings as a native tool. Filter, score, and rank deals against your LP mandate automatically.
Plug our OpenAPI schema directly into custom GPTs for your fund's investment committee members.
Build automated internal ingestion pipelines, backtest distressed debt screens, and export to Postgres.
Programmatic REST API & MCP Server
Pull normalized European corporate insolvency notices and court auctions into your proprietary CRM, algorithmic screener, or data warehouse through the REST API, or receive automated HMAC-SHA256 signed push webhooks directly in your account.
Daily Delta Feeds & Webhooks
Poll the API for filings since your last call, or configure self-serve daily HMAC-signed push webhooks for automated delivery into your data lake.
Unified 32-Jurisdiction Schema
Cross-referenced NACE sector codes, parsed court case numbers, registration IDs (SIREN, HRB, CRN), and liquidator dossiers.
99.9% Availability SLA & Bulk Exports
Enterprise SLA guarantees, sandbox testing environments, and 1-click bulk historic database dumps (105k+ records).
{
"total": 132195,
"jurisdiction": "FR",
"records": [
{
"id": "fr-live-522297324",
"company": "RESTOAUXERRE SAS",
"stage": "Redressement Judiciaire",
"statute": "Code de Commerce L. 642-1",
"filed_date": "2026-07-10",
"court": "Tribunal de Commerce d'Angers",
"practitioner": {
"name": "Maître François MERCIER",
"firm": "SELAS ADJUST",
"role": "Administrateur Judiciaire",
"contact_phone": "+33 2 41 87 ****"
}
}
]
}Compare AcquireEU to How You Currently Source Deals
A single junior analyst costs €65,000/year to manually check 2 registries. AcquireEU automates 22 jurisdictions for less than the cost of a daily lunch.
| Origination Method | Monthly Cost | Coverage Breadth | Speed to Deal | Direct Liquidator Access? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Sourcing Analyst | €4,500 – €7,000 / mo | 1–2 countries manually | 2–5 days lag | ❌ Manual research |
| Boutique M&A Broker | €5,000 – €15,000 / mo + 3% fee | Broker's existing rolodex only | 4–8 weeks late (broad auction) | ❌ Intermediated broker desk |
| Legacy PE Databases (Pitchbook/CapIQ) | €1,800 – €3,200 / mo | Broad corporate, poor distress depth | Weeks delayed (waits for PR) | ❌ General corporate contacts only |
| AcquireEU Deal Terminal | €149 – €449 / mo | 22 countries, 105k+ filings | Real-time (05:00 CET daily) | ✅ Yes: Direct phone, email, court docket |
Transparent, Dealmaker-Friendly Pricing
From solo searchers to institutional credit funds and algorithmic deal origination.
- ✓ Full search across 105,000+ European filings
- ✓ 1 Unmasked Free Deal Per Country Per Week
- ✓ Weekly Top 10 Deal Radar lead magnet
- ✓ Basic judicial auction directory
- ✕ Other company financials blurred
- ✕ Practitioner & owner contacts locked
- ✓ Full Unmasked Pipeline Data (Distressed or Succession)
- ✓ Direct Practitioner or Owner Contacts
- ✓ Claude Desktop & Cursor MCP Server
- ✓ Full REST API Key Included
- ✓ 1-Click CSV / CRM Export
- ✓ Daily Custom Alerts
- ✓ Both Pipelines (Distressed + Succession)
- ✓ 2 User Seats Included
- ✓ Claude & Cursor MCP Server Included
- ✓ Unlimited REST API Access
- ✓ Apollo.io Decision-Maker Enrichment
- ✓ Real-time Cross-Border Slack / Email Alerts
- ✓ Full Raw REST API Access (unlimited rate limits)
- ✓ Signed Daily Delta Webhooks (self-serve in your account)
- ✓ Unlimited Seats · Single Sign-On (SAML/Okta) available on request
- ✓ Custom Court Scrapers on demand
- ✓ Historical Database Dumps (105k+ records)
- ✓ 99.9% Uptime SLA & Dedicated Engineer
Frequently Asked Questions by Institutional Acquirers
How can an operating business be acquired "free of debt" in Europe?
When an enterprise enters court-supervised restructuring (such as UK Administration, French Redressement Judiciaire, or German Schutzschirmverfahren), European insolvency statutes empower the judge and appointed practitioner to sell company operations via an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA). The cash consideration is deposited with the court to satisfy creditor claims, while the buyer acquires clean, unencumbered title to the operations, customer contracts, IP, and equipment without inheriting legacy bank debt, past tax arrears, or historical supplier claims.
How does AcquireEU give my deal team a 3-week head start?
Traditional M&A brokers spend 3 to 8 weeks after an insolvency filing drafting teasers, negotiating sell-side advisory retainers, and packaging broad competitive auctions. AcquireEU crawls primary government gazettes and judicial registries at 05:00 CET every single morning. We extract the appointed liquidator or administrator details, normalize the legal procedure, and deliver it to your inbox by 07:30 CET—allowing your team to initiate bilateral outreach before competitors receive a broker teaser.
What is the difference between an asset carve-out and buying company shares?
In a share purchase, you acquire the legal entity and all its historic liabilities (including unknown tax risks, pending lawsuits, and debt). In an insolvency asset carve-out (e.g. French Plan de Cession or UK Pre-Pack), you purchase only designated assets (customer contracts, IP, machinery, inventory) through a court order. The legacy entity is dissolved or liquidated, leaving pre-filing debts stranded in the insolvent corporate shell.
Where does AcquireEU data come from? Are these recycled broker lists?
No. AcquireEU does not aggregate recycled broker lists or press releases. We maintain automated primary crawlers across official government registers in 32 European jurisdictions, including UK Companies House & The Gazette, France BODACC, Germany Insolvenzbekanntmachungen, Spain BOE/BORME, Netherlands CIR, Portugal Citius, and regional judicial auction portals.
How do court auctions differ from insolvency company filings?
Insolvency filings cover whole operating companies undergoing judicial administration or restructuring. Judicial auctions cover physical assets—commercial real estate, factories, machine tooling, vehicle fleets, and inventory—liquidated under court order. AcquireEU tracks both, allowing you to buy operating businesses or cherry-pick heavy industrial equipment at 40% to 70% below appraised replacement value.
Can I pipe this data directly into our CRM or internal data warehouse via API?
Yes. AcquireEU provides a high-throughput REST API (/api/v1/insolvencies, /api/v1/auctions) and an MCP server. You can load the JSON into Snowflake, BigQuery, S3, Salesforce, or PostgreSQL with your own pipeline. Enterprise accounts can also receive a signed daily push webhook of newly detected filings.
Can I query the AcquireEU database from Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT?
Yes. AcquireEU provides a pre-built Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. By running npx -y acquireeu-mcp, you can connect our database of 105,000+ European filings directly to your AI assistant. You can ask Claude or Cursor in plain English to screen filings, evaluate asset sizes, and draft bilingual Expressions of Interest (EOIs) to court administrators in seconds.
Explore Primary Registries Across 32 European Markets
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