Acquisitions Expertise
Looking for help delivering your M&A strategy? We’ve already helped hundreds of scaling businesses to successfully plan and deliver their acquisitive growth strategies. Find out how partnering with BGF could support your growth plans below.
Acquisition funding and support
We can provide significant investment for strategic acquisitions and buy-and-builds. Alongside this, we offer a full programme of support to our portfolio, including expert guidance from our team and external network of specialists, throughout the life cycle of our investments. You’d also have access to practical resources and M&A workshops, and a supportive community of hundreds of other founders and managements teams to learn from.
Delivering your M&A strategy
- Access to follow-on funding for acquiring new businesses
- Help with market mapping, and identifying and prioritising acquisition targets
- Off-market deal sourcing through our global advisor network
- Hands-on support throughout the transaction process, including guidance around valuations and structuring
- Introductions to legal and financial advisors, and lenders, where appropriate
- Post-deal integration and scaling support
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We’ve already helped hundreds of ambitious businesses across the UK and Ireland to accelerate their growth. Yours could be next.
Our expertise
We have over a decade’s experience in scaling growth businesses, as well as an extensive network of non-executive talent and operating specialists, covering every region of the UK and Ireland. Together with our community platform, Scale, this has enabled us to support hundreds of companies across:
We can provide significant investment for strategic acquisitions or buy and builds, including access to follow-on funding for new opportunities. We can also support with market mapping, deal sourcing and advisor introductions, and can help guide you through the transaction and integration process.
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