We are looking for one business — not hundreds.
Most approaches a business owner receives are from brokers, aggregators or private-equity buyers working through long lists. This is the opposite. I want to find one good business, get to know it properly, buy it, and run it myself for the long term. If that's you, you'll be talking directly to the person who intends to take the wheel.
Who I am
An owner-operator, not a broker or a fund.
I'm Peter Langdon — an Australian, currently in the UK and moving home to South East Queensland for good, for family and the lifestyle. I'm coming to put down roots and run one business for the long term. I'm a chartered accountant and Oxford MBA by training, but what matters most here is simpler: I've built and run a business of my own, and I want to do it again.
For the past decade I co-founded and have run the commercial and operational side of a regulated UK healthcare business — from a standing start through licensing, premises and a full team to an award-winning practice, with complete profit-and-loss responsibility. I know first-hand what it takes to look after staff, customers and a hard-won reputation, day in and day out.
Before that I spent years on the corporate side of acquisitions — IPOs, mergers and corporate development for large, often private-equity-backed companies. That experience is exactly why I now want to do the opposite: not trade businesses from a spreadsheet, but buy one good one and run it myself for the long term. I have the capital to do that and the experience to do it properly — and I'd far rather be the steward of something that already works than strip it or flip it.
Fellow Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) · Chartered Accountant (Australia) · MBA, University of Oxford
What this can offer a founder
A succession that protects what you built.
Selling isn't only about price. For most founders it's also about what happens to the staff, the customers, the name and the legacy. I'm open to structuring a deal around those things, not against them:
- Meaningful cash up front — a fair, real offer at completion.
- A staged handover — you stay involved for 6–18 months so the transition is calm and the team is looked after.
- Flexibility on structure — vendor finance and seller rollover are on the table where they help both sides.
- Continuity — for your staff, your customers, your suppliers and your name.
- Discretion — every conversation is confidential, with no obligation.
What I'm looking for
Steady, useful, built to last.
The kind of business
Profitable, established businesses serving other businesses — the essential, repeat-demand, often unglamorous work that customers always need. Industrial, compliance, maintenance, trade-services and specialist B2B operations all fit.
The kind of owner
An owner thinking about the next chapter — retirement, stepping back, or simply wanting a trusted successor — who cares that the business and its people are left in good hands.
Roughly the size
Established teams and revenue, typically a handful to a few dozen staff. If you're not sure whether you fit, the easiest thing is just to ask.
Where
South East Queensland — Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Logan and the Moreton Bay region.
How a conversation works
Unhurried, confidential, no obligation.
It starts with a private, no-pressure conversation — often just coffee or a phone call — to understand whether there's a fit. Nothing is shared, nothing is committed, and there's no broker in the middle. If it's not right, it ends there, in confidence. If it is, we take the next steps together at your pace.
Get in touch
If this sounds like your business, I'd like to hear from you.
A short, confidential note is all it takes — even just to ask a question. It will reach me directly.
Every enquiry is treated in strict confidence.