Larger firms (ie. those you want to be acquired by ;]) will have a focused corporate finance team whose sole role is to seek out growth through M&A. This M&A t

Larger firms (ie. those you want to be acquired by ;]) will have a focused corporate finance team whose sole role is to seek out growth through M&A. This M&A team does all the number crunching to make sure that they're adding value to the firm when they do deals. M&A also seek out the deals. They may do this directly (i.e. a team of research analysts within M&A) or indirectly (i.e. 'feelers' throughout the firm who have incentives to forward possible deals). My suggestion is that you identify which firm/s you would offer the biggest value to (i.e. the greatest synergy), and contact their M&A team directly (even if it's a distant deal).