How we Help

Accelerate M&A

M&A can be a key driver for growth and scalability. Our proven in-house team can help businesses to shape their strategy, source and execute acquisitions, and help with some of the heavy lifting around integration. Our M&A Toolkit offers management a number of tools across these areas:

Map target market and identify potential targets
Unlock acquisitions
Manage the M&A process from start to finish

70 +

portfolio acquisitions since 2010

How does ECI help with M&A

How does ECI support management teams to successfully achieve their strategic M&A ambitions, and what does that hands on support look like?

We worked really well with the ECI Origination Team to map the M&A market. The impact of the acquisitions on our growth was transformational. What we were able to acquire was really unique capability, at the right price with the right organisations that made a difference to the overall growth trajectory.

Peter Sweetbaum

CEO, Content+Cloud

Case Study

Moneypenny

Moneypenny’s outsourced customer communications service was already an established market leader in the UK, with significant opportunity in the US market.

We worked with the management team to define the criteria for potential acquisitions
We built a full market view of 750+ relevant businesses
We shortlisted and sourced meetings with potential targets

This resulted in off-market US acquisitions of Voicenation, Ninja Number, Alphapage and Sunshine Communications with the US now accounting for c.30% of group revenue.

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750+

FULL MARKET VIEW OF RELEVANT BUSINESSES MAPPED

844%

INCREASE IN USE REVENUE

It’s been a pleasure working with Andy Collis and the team at Moneypenny. We aim to flex our resource to help the businesses we back get strategic M&A over the line – whether that’s sourcing, unlocking or managing a pipeline of targets. That’s exactly what we’ve done with Moneypenny and it’s been great to see the results.”

Skyler ver Bruggen

Investment Director, ECI Partners