Business Services
Supporting growth in support services
M&A specialists to mid-market companies
£4.9bn
£900m+
£3.8bn
aggregate market cap of the 21 companies we act for in this sector
raised in IPO and secondary transactions in the last 5 years
transacted in public and private M&A since 2019
Business Services is a diverse sector covering physical infrastructure, professional services, recruitment, distribution or B2B services more generally. Despite this diversity there are often common themes:
- Companies providing essential services, critical in enabling their clients to focus on their core activities.
- Often in a regulated environment
- Often subject to subject to sweeping technological disruptions
Proactive and approachable team with decades’ sector knowledge, critical in helping corporates deliver their narrative clearly and effectively.
Our support services subsectors
- Recruitment and resourcing
- Education and training (inc. e-learning)
- HR and recruitment technologies
- Employee benefits and wellbeing
- ESG, management and strategy consulting
- Accounting, financial and corporate services
- Legal and compliance services
- Media and digital services
- Specialist and value-added distributors
- Wholesalers
- Transport services
- Equipment hire
- Property repair and maintenance
- Cleaning and hygiene services
- Fire and security
- Social housing services
- White-collar outsourced services
- Contact centres
- Property management
- Judicial and debt collection services
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