M&A & Investment
Identify suitable targets and test whether an acquisition or investment is worth pursuing.
The Biggest Risk in a Critical Decision
Often Lies Beyond Standard Documentation.
For acquisitions, market entries and other major business decisions involving Greater China, we verify the facts that documents leave out and, with your authorization, open the conversation with the decision-makers who matter — before you commit resources.
Market Entry & Growth
Assess demand, routes to market and the changes needed to improve local performance.
Partnerships & Sourcing
Find commercial partners and suppliers with the capabilities and interest to work with you.
Regulatory Access & Continuity
Assess how changing local requirements affect your ability to operate and what options remain.
OUR SERVICES
Three Services, One for Each Critical Question
Every decision above requires answers to three questions, in sequence. Each service answers one.
Is the information behind the decision genuinely credible?
Multi-Source Analysis
We combine corporate registries, shareholding, litigation, intellectual property, tenders and media coverage across platforms to test the materials on hand and pinpoint the core issue and what needs verifying.
Deliverable: Target & Key-Person Map
- Fact baseline, tagged by source, date and reliability
- Risk and opportunity signals by reputation, compliance, customer concentration, supply chain and operating stress
- Target priorities and questions to verify
Are the risks and opportunities substantiated?
Verification Interviews
We build a verification strategy and key question set around what must be confirmed, screen interviewees for relevance and conflicts, and interview them with informed consent. Every critical conclusion is confirmed by two independent sources; anything less is marked unverified.
Deliverable: Verified Insight Report
- Interview guide, reviewed by the client or counsel before outreach
- Validation table separating facts, observations and unverified claims, with confidence ratings
- Material risks ranked by priority
How can the strategy be advanced effectively?
Strategic Outreach
Drawing on multi-source intelligence, we map the target’s decision-makers, current core business objectives and decision path, approach them discreetly within the client’s authorization and without revealing its identity, assess their intent, and advance to an NDA and formal meetings.
Deliverable: Proceed or Alternative Options
- Decision-path map: decision-makers, influencers and gatekeepers
- Outreach log, with responses graded No Interest, NDA-ready or Meeting-ready
- Intent assessment and next-step recommendation, with alternative routes for low-intent targets
SELECTED WORK
Selected Client Cases
Outcomes from selected engagements across investment, market entry, partnerships and continuity.
M&A & Investment
100 → 3100 targets narrowed to 3 interested parties in direct talks within 3 months
From 100 Potential Targets to 3 in Direct Business Engagements
BizLinks screened 100 companies for a Japanese technology company. Seven met its acquisition criteria with confirmed interest, and three entered direct business engagements with the client.
View Case →Market Entry & Growth
Channel modelChina market strategy validated
Testing Demand Before China Entry Led to a Channel-Partner Model
Market testing before local investment led a Japanese RPA vendor to adopt a channel-partner model for China instead of building a local entity and sales team upfront.
View Case →M&A & Investment
Deal haltedbefore formal due diligence
Independent Checks Informed a Decision to Halt an Acquisition
Independent, consent-based interviews surfaced contract disputes and revenue-attribution gaps, and an investor halted an acquisition before formal due diligence.
View Case →PARTNERS AND ADVISORS
Senior Expertise Across Industries and Functions
Three partners and more than 30 advisors have held leadership and specialist roles at global leaders: Apple, IBM and Oracle in technology; Pfizer and AstraZeneca in healthcare; HSBC and Citibank in financial services; Procter & Gamble and L'Oréal in consumer goods; and ExxonMobil in energy. We know how large organizations make decisions and how to reach the people who make them. We select advisors for each engagement by assignment, industry and geography, and agree the team with the client before work begins.
Multi-Source Analysis · Market Intelligence
| Professional Background | Industries | Representative Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Former brand-strategy partner; 20+ years in Greater China brand and retail | Consumer, Media, Industrial | Prophet, Interbrand, Isobar, Test-Rite |
| Co-founder & CTO, AI retail automation; 18+ years in retail and FMCG tech | IT, Consumer | IBM, Dalian Wanda, New World K11, Wangfujing |
| Former cloud-software innovation head; ex-IBM global solutions leader | IT | VMware, IBM |
| Consultancy MD; former business-school executive-education head | Industrial, IT | CEIBS, Huawei, Alcatel Shanghai Bell |
| 10+ years in medtech and pharma: innovation, lean and AI products | Healthcare | GE Healthcare, Fresenius, Pfizer, AstraZeneca |
| AI company CEO; 20+ years of digital transformation in the US and Asia | IT, Industrial | Nokia, Samsung, MTR Corporation |
| Luxury retail operations and brand distribution partnerships | Consumer | IWC Schaffhausen |
| 20+ years in chain retail operations and sourcing; planned 800+ stores | Consumer | Suning, B&Q, Test-Rite, M&G, Natural Beauty |
| Ex-China online lead, global sportswear brand and e-commerce platform | Consumer, IT | Nike, eBay, Apple |
| Takes Greater China brands into US and European online retail | Consumer, IT | Amazon, Apple |
| Former China head, cross-border e-commerce platform; expansion advisor | Consumer, Media | Amazon Launchpad, AliExpress, CommonWealth |
| Partner in HR consulting and competitive intelligence | IT | Hays, Apple |
| Sustainability consulting and investment analysis for manufacturing | Industrial | — |
| Former LatAm commercial manager at a global tech firm, later China GM; AI commercialization and digital marketing advisor | Industrial, IT | Huawei, iSoftStone |
| Former North Asia GM, European tech firm; 17 years advising executives | Industrial, IT | GN, Alcatel |
| 12 years at an energy major (operations, JVs); later China GM of an HR firm | Industrial, Energy | Mobil, Recruit |
| 10 years in Greater China tech retail and mobile payments | IT, Finance | Apple, American Express, Deloitte |
| Senior banker across operations, business, credit and compliance | Finance | HSBC, Standard Chartered |
| Former GM/COO, China hospital JV group | Healthcare | ResMed, UPMC, ParkwayHealth |
| Lawyer in Taipei and Shanghai; independent director of listed companies | Cross-sector | Erdos Group, Freshippo project |
| Former APAC senior director, enterprise software; built global alliances | IT | Oracle, Siebel Systems |
| 15+ years of C-level search; ex-APAC tech associate partner, global firm | IT, Finance, Real Estate | PageGroup |
| Founder, HK executive search firm; first Asia director of a search network | Cross-sector | NPAworldwide, AmCham Hong Kong |
| Partner, HK search firm; 11 years in apparel sourcing, 7 in consumer goods | Consumer, Industrial | — |
| 20 years as China GM, MD and CEO across IT, retail and medical devices | IT, Consumer, Healthcare | — |
| 28 years in HR and recruitment across logistics and property development | Industrial, Real Estate | — |
| 25+ years of executive search at all levels | Consumer, Industrial, Finance | — |
| 10+ years of talent mapping and search in industrial and healthcare | Industrial, Healthcare | — |
| Talent mapping and search; life-insurance and overseas property experience | Industrial, Finance, Property | — |
| C-level search for Chinese financial groups: finance, strategy, AI+, health | Finance | Qianhai Inst. of Financial Mgmt. |
| Former senior business specialist at a global tech retailer | IT, Consumer | Apple |
| Multinational marketing events and IT/telecom recruitment | IT | Oracle, Microsoft |
| Managing Partner, client strategy and strategic outreach; former Greater China business development leader at Apple and Oracle | IT, Industrial | Apple, Oracle, IBM, Lenovo |
| Partner, research and verification; former Director of Business Solutions, Apple Greater China | IT | Apple, IBM |
| Partner, engagement delivery and quality; former service delivery lead at IBM for banking, healthcare and public sector | IT, Finance, Industrial | IBM, Citibank, Arvato |
Advisors are anonymized; most have held roles at Fortune Global 500 and industry-leading companies. Once an engagement is confirmed, we share detailed profiles of the relevant advisors: employment history, industry and functional expertise, and relevant project experience.
QUALITY
Accountability and Quality
Each engagement has a dedicated project delivery team of consultants and an engagement partner who reviews findings before delivery. Reports identify sources, distinguish confirmed findings from open questions, and explain the confidence behind key conclusions.
CLIENT FEEDBACK
What Clients Say
Trusted by multinational corporations and industry-leading clients.
Market Entry Strategy
BizLinks is a highly professional and results-driven partner. I was impressed by their strategic ideas, market knowledge, and strong capability to align with our APAC-wide team to successfully pursue new cross-border business opportunities. Working with them significantly deepened our market insights.
Local Ecosystem & Execution
Partnering with BizLinks on major projects across Greater China, I was most impressed by their strong teamwork, integrity, and conscientious approach to protecting customers' interests. They effectively helped us break into untapped financial client segments.
Pipeline & Growth
Impressed by BizLinks' exceptional business development expertise. The team helped us build robust new sales pipelines and enhanced our demand generation speed by 20% by identifying high-potential manufacturing vertical targets.
Company names are replaced with industry descriptions to protect client confidentiality.
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