For £5m+ owners who want to scale
Grow with an acquisition partner in your corner.
We come on board as your acquisition partner. Our proprietary M&A methods find and buy the right businesses to add to yours. Our operators and marketing resource grow the one you already run. Two engines of growth, one team, invested alongside you.
A first growth conversation with Lee or Scott. No commitment.
The partnership
What does an acquisition partner do?
An acquisition partner joins your business to help it grow, with skin in the game. Verdani comes on board alongside you, brings the deal team, the operators and the marketing resource behind our own group, and shares in the result.
You keep running the business you built. We bring the parts that are hard to build from scratch: a proven way of finding and buying businesses, people who have scaled contractors in your trade, and the marketing engine that keeps the pipeline full while the acquisitions land.
We are paid through the growth we help create, so our interests sit with yours from the first conversation.
Two engines of growth
Buy the right businesses. Grow the one you have.
Most owners get one or the other. Acquisition without the operations to absorb it, or organic growth that levels off because there is no capacity to chase it. We bring both.
A sourcing and deal methodology built over 32 acquisitions. We find businesses that never reach a broker, approach the owners directly, value them properly, structure and fund the deal, and see it through to completion and integration.
Scott scaled an HVAC contractor from £20m to £80m and has led teams of 500+. Job costing, scheduling, procurement, margin discipline, and the management structure that lets the business grow without you in every decision.
The in-house marketing resource that markets our own group companies. Brand, website, lead generation, LinkedIn and digital, framework and tender support, and cross-selling across the group.
How it works
Four steps from first conversation to growing together.
A growth conversation
You tell Lee or Scott where the business is and where you want it to be. We give you a straight view on what acquisition and organic growth could do for it, and whether we are the right partner.
We come on board
We agree how the partnership works: the stake we take alongside you, your role, and the growth plan we are both signing up to. Everything in writing before anything starts.
The acquisition engine starts
We build the target list, approach owners confidentially, run the valuation and negotiation, structure the funding and take each deal through due diligence to completion. Then we help you integrate it.
Organic growth alongside
While the deals progress, our operators work with your team on systems, margins and management, and our marketing resource builds the pipeline. The existing business gets stronger, not just bigger.
Is this you?
Who is this for?
Owners of £5m+ revenue businesses in HVAC, M&E engineering, Renewable Energy or Construction who want to grow and would rather have an experienced partner alongside them than do it alone.
Big enough to absorb an acquisition and to benefit from proper operational and marketing support.
The sectors we run businesses in ourselves, so we know what good looks like and what to avoid.
You want the business to be materially bigger in five years and you are open to sharing the journey.
We partner with a small number of businesses at any one time, so each one gets the people doing the work, not a junior team.
Why partner with Verdani?
Operators who have done it 32 times.
Everything we bring to your business we have already done in our own. When we tell you how to approach a seller, structure a deal, fix a margin problem or fill a pipeline, it comes from direct experience.
We run HVAC, M&E engineering, Renewable Energy and Construction companies ourselves. We know how owners in these trades think, what they worry about, and why they say yes to one buyer and no to another. That credibility is often what gets a deal over the line, and it is what makes an operator’s advice land with your team.
We come in as a partner with a stake in the outcome, so we only do well when the business does. That is a different relationship from a consultant or a broker, and it is the only one we offer.
Want to see the group behind the partnership? Look at the Verdani Group portfolio, read how we buy businesses ourselves, or meet the team.
Straight answers
Growing with a partner, answered.
What does Verdani do as an acquisition partner?
Verdani comes on board alongside the owner of a £5m+ business to help it grow. It brings its proprietary M&A methods to find, value, structure and complete acquisitions, and it brings operational experience and marketing resource to grow the existing business organically. Verdani takes a stake alongside the owner, so it is rewarded through the growth rather than through fees.
Who is the growth partnership for?
Owners of £5m+ revenue businesses in HVAC, M&E engineering, Renewable Energy or Construction who want the business to be materially bigger in five years and are open to having an experienced partner alongside them. Verdani partners with a small number of businesses at any one time.
How is this different from an M&A adviser, broker or consultant?
An adviser or consultant is paid a fee whether or not the plan works. Verdani comes in as a partner with a stake in the outcome, and the people doing the work are operators who have completed 30 acquisitions and scaled contractors in these trades. The advice comes from direct experience, and Verdani only does well when the business does.
What are Verdani’s proprietary M&A methods?
A sourcing and deal methodology built over 30 acquisitions: finding businesses that never reach a broker, approaching owners directly and confidentially, valuing on sustainable earnings, structuring and funding each deal, and taking it through due diligence to completion and integration.
What does the organic growth support include?
Operational experience from operators who have led teams of 500+ and scaled a contractor from £20m to £80m: job costing, scheduling, procurement, margin discipline and management structure. Plus the in-house marketing resource that markets Verdani’s own group companies: brand, website, lead generation, LinkedIn and digital, framework and tender support, and cross-selling across the group.
More answers on the Verdani Capital FAQ page.
Start here
Tell us where you want the business to be.
Book a growth conversation with Lee or Scott. We will talk through the business, what acquisition and organic growth could do for it, and whether coming on board as your partner is the right fit.
- A straight view on your growth plan
- Completely confidential. Nothing goes further
- You will speak to Lee or Scott, not an analyst
- We reply within one working day
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