Conflicts Policy

1. Where each side of the firm operates

We advise companies of roughly €10–100 million in revenue. We buy companies of €2–25 million in revenue and €0.5–5 million EBITDA, the criteria published on qapitalgroup.com.

Between €10 million and €25 million a company sits inside both windows at once. We do not pretend otherwise. Section 2 is what applies there.

2. When we might be the buyer

We buy and build companies as well as advise on them, which means a company we are helping is occasionally one we would want to own. We do not manage that by pretending it away, and we do not manage it by refusing the work.

Before any engagement where a sale is on the table, we tell you in writing which side we are on and what we would want if that changed. If we would consider buying your company, you know it before you have paid us anything, and you decide whether that is a conflict or a convenience. Some owners want an adviser who will never bid. Others want the one buyer in the room who has already read the numbers. Both are reasonable, and the choice is yours rather than ours.

If you engage us as your adviser, we act for you and we do not bid — for the life of the engagement and for twelve months after it ends, unless you release us in writing.

Your figures are yours. What you give us for one purpose is not used for another, and nothing you submit through a Qapital platform is routed into our acquisition pipeline.

3. If we do end up on the other side

If, after the standstill above has run or you have released us from it, a transaction is discussed, the following applies without exception:

• The advisory mandate ends in writing before any discussion of a transaction begins.
• Any transaction that follows is priced on an independent valuation, not ours.
• The owner is free to appoint their own adviser at our cost for that valuation.

4. Information from engagements

Information obtained during an advisory engagement is used for that engagement only. It is not used to source, price, or approach an acquisition, and it is not shared with anyone outside the engagement team.

Confidentiality obligations survive the end of the engagement indefinitely.

5. Platform data

Companies and owners who use Qapital.ai submit their own figures and documents. That data is theirs. It is not routed into our acquisition pipeline, and we do not approach a platform user about a transaction on the basis of what they submitted.

Where we do approach a company we have identified through public sources, we say so plainly at the first contact.

6. Disclosure

Where any question of interest arises that this policy does not cover, we disclose it in writing at the point it arises, before the work continues.

7. Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you want the position confirmed in writing for a specific engagement, contact us at info@qapital.nl.