New firm provides platform and add-on acquisition sourcing, with deep specialization in aerospace, defense, and government services.

Talas Partners LLC, a sector-focused buy-side M&A advisory firm, today announced its launch. The firm provides platform and add-on acquisition sourcing for private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and strategic acquirers in the lower middle market, maintaining a deliberately limited number of concurrent mandates, each executed directly by the firm's partners.

Talas was founded by Jovan Jeremic and Marko Ilincic, who bring more than 15 years of combined buy-side advisory experience. Across their careers, the founders have contributed to more than 75 closed transactions representing over $1.35 billion in sourced enterprise value. In one of the firm's first mandates, Talas sourcing produced three letters of intent within four months of engagement. The firm launches from Newport Beach, a city quietly regarded within private equity as the capital of dedicated buy-side advisory.

"There's a reason this work concentrates in Newport Beach, and it's where we learned the craft," said Jeremic, Founder and Managing Partner. "We built Talas around a simple discipline: fewer mandates, taken only where we have real conviction in both the buyer and the thesis. Most buy-side outreach is written to sound good in an investment committee meeting. Ours is crafted to earn a response from the owner reading it. When the conviction is real, it converts."

The firm's deepest experience lies in aerospace, defense, and government services, with active coverage across specialized industrials, business services, financial services, and education. Within these verticals, Talas runs platform searches for buyers entering new markets and dedicated add-on searches for portfolio companies executing buy-and-build strategies.

"Whether it's a new platform or the tenth add-on, these mandates live or die on owner engagement," said Ilincic, Co-Founder and Partner. "Owners respond to people who understand what they built. That standard doesn't survive delegation, which is why our partners run every search personally."

About Talas Partners

Talas Partners LLC is a partner-led buy-side M&A advisory firm based in Newport Beach, California, providing platform and add-on acquisition sourcing to a select group of private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and strategic acquirers in the lower middle market. Learn more at www.talasp.com and on LinkedIn.

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Most buy-side outreach is written to sound good in an investment committee meeting. Ours is written to earn a response from the owner reading it.