Specialist M&A Advisor and Business Broker in Glasgow
Glasgow and West Scotland M&A advisory delivering multiple acquisition offers for building services and healthcare business owners
The UK's only M&A advisory exclusively focused on building services and healthcare. Our market-leading advisors leverage industry knowledge, buyer relationships and proprietary technology to help business owners secure multiple acquisition offers at higher valuations.
Largest
City in Scotland by Population
85+
Active Acquirers Covering West Scotland
Growing
PE Interest in Scottish Building Services
Exits Advised by DealFlowAgent and Our Partner Advisors
HVAC and Refrigeration
Glasgow-based HVAC and commercial refrigeration contractor serving food retail and hospitality clients across Scotland sold to a national mechanical services group.
Alarm Monitoring
NSI Gold approved alarm receiving centre in Glasgow with 8,000 monitored connections sold to a PE-backed security monitoring platform. ARC licence fully transferred.
Care Home
CQC-registered residential care home in Glasgow with 45 beds and strong local authority commissioning relationships sold to a Scottish care group.
M&A Market in Glasgow
What We Are Watching
The Scottish Government's £30 billion Infrastructure Delivery Pipeline continues to drive unprecedented demand for building services contractors across the Central Belt. Glasgow City Region Deal funding — now exceeding £1.1 billion — is accelerating regeneration projects from the Clyde waterfront to the city centre, creating sustained work pipelines for HVAC, fire safety, and electrical contractors. The Scottish Building Standards framework, which operates independently from England and Wales, imposes distinct compliance requirements that favour locally embedded contractors with existing accreditations. For business owners, this regulatory separation creates a natural barrier to entry that national acquirers must navigate — making acquisition the fastest route into the Scottish market.
What Glasgow Business Owners Are Going Through
Skilled labour shortages remain the single greatest constraint for Glasgow building services firms. Construction Skills Network data shows Scotland needs an additional 7,000 workers annually through 2028, and Glasgow businesses are competing directly with major infrastructure programmes for qualified engineers and tradespeople. Rising compliance costs under the Building Safety Act — including the new Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) Regulations enforced from April 2026 — are increasing overheads for fire safety contractors, while simultaneously making compliant businesses more valuable to acquirers. Energy costs and materials inflation have squeezed margins across the sector, pushing many owners to reassess whether scaling independently remains viable or whether joining a larger platform with better purchasing power is the smarter path.
PE and Acquirer Activity in West Scotland
Private equity interest in Scottish building services has intensified. Triton Partners' Tendra platform, headquartered in Preston, is actively targeting bolt-on acquisitions across the Central Belt to build a national compliance services group. Sureserve Group continues to consolidate heating and energy services contractors with existing social housing contracts in Scotland. NHS Scotland's dental consolidation programme and the shift to NHS Reform have created acquisition opportunities for dental practice owners, with PE-backed dental groups actively seeking Scottish practices that hold NHS board contracts. For Glasgow business owners, this means the buyer pool is deeper and more competitive than at any point in the last decade.
Key Sectors We Cover in Glasgow
Buyers Active in Glasgow
These are examples of verified acquirers with active mandates covering the Glasgow market. Our full network includes thousands more.
Sureserve Group
PE-backed heating and compliance platform seeking Scottish bolt-ons
N&C Group
National building services group expanding across Central Belt
HC-One
UK's largest care home operator acquiring across Scotland
Bupa
Global healthcare group acquiring dental and care operations
mydentist
UK's largest dental group seeking NHS Scotland practices
What Our Clients Say
Saim, Founder of a Lancashire, UK-based online pharmacy. Together with the USA-based strategic acquirer, revenue has grown >10x since the acquisition. 4 competing offers. 9 weeks to close.
"8 buyers got in touch with the help of their tech. We ended up completing the sale in 32 days to a serial acquirer."
"I could not have asked for better support. They found the perfect buyer and secured terms that exceeded my expectations."
"The team guided me through every step. I felt completely supported from first call to completion. I then referred my friend Jennifer, who also sold her company with them."
Book a Confidential Call
Book a confidential 30-minute call with Joe from our M&A advisory team. No obligation. Everything discussed stays between us.