How an Indian Industrial Group Converted an Aerospace Acquisition Thesis into Qualified Management Conversations

The challenge

An Indian industrial group wanted to acquire capabilities in aerospace and defence manufacturing. Its thesis covered precision components, connectors, forging, welding, and businesses with relevant certifications or OEM relationships. The difficulty was not generating a long list of manufacturers; it was identifying companies with the right technical capabilities, customer approvals, manufacturing infrastructure, ownership profile, and willingness to engage.

Samaveda Capital's approach

• Translated the acquisition criteria into a structured target-screening model covering manufacturing capabilities, certifications, customer relationships, infrastructure, capacity, ownership profile, succession considerations, and indicative transaction intent.
• Combined company discovery, technical qualification, outreach tracking, meeting intelligence, and follow-up management in one software-assisted process.
• Progressively enriched each potential target using public information, management conversations, and transaction-specific intelligence instead of treating companies as spreadsheet entries.

Result to date

• Built a focused target universe across relevant manufacturing categories.
• Initiated direct conversations with company owners.
• Conducted management discovery meetings with qualified targets.
• Captured operational information including facilities, capacity, working-capital requirements, certifications, and customer relationships.
• Converted management conversations into structured intelligence for the buyer's acquisition evaluation.