Sell your compliance, testing, inspection and certification business. To buyers who understand statutory recurring revenue.
£12M fire alarm and detection integrator with a substantial commercial maintenance base sold to a PE-backed compliance platform. All engineers retained on existing terms.
LCA-certified Legionella compliance specialist with £2.5M in recurring revenue from 400+ monitoring contracts, acquired by a large, PE-backed environmental services group.
£18M fire sprinkler and suppression contractor with national framework agreements sold to a PE-backed fire safety platform. Multiple competing offers received.
Specialist M&A advisory for testing, inspection, certification and compliance maintenance business owners. Fire, water hygiene and Legionella, electrical testing, lift maintenance, HVAC and asbestos. Confidential and sector-specialist.
Specialist M&A advisory for owners of testing, inspection, certification and compliance maintenance businesses serving commercial and institutional contract-holders.
Pick a time that suits. 20 minutes, confidential, no pitch.
A senior M&A bench, plus a sector specialist recruited for your industry on every deal.
Joined full-time on 22 August 2026 from the largest M&A advisory firm in the UK, owned by K3 Capital. As an ex-Director he managed teams of M&A advisors, analysts and associates, working daily with business owners, buyers and stakeholders on live acquisition deals. Selected from 260 applicants alongside colleagues from investment banking backgrounds, he brings that experience and network to lead the advisory bench across Building Services, Facilities Management, and Healthcare.
Senior Building Services & FM Advisor
Martin is one of the most well-connected figures in UK fire, security, building services and FM. He is Chairman of both the Fire Industry Association and the British Security Industry Association, the only person in the UK to hold both roles simultaneously. Martin spent over a decade in senior leadership at Mitie, latterly as Industry Liaison Director for its fire and security division, helping scale the business past £500m in revenue and playing a role in the £366m acquisition of Marlowe plc, which created one of the UK's largest compliance, fire and security services groups. He joined DealFlowAgent because owners in these sectors deserve a genuine sector-specialist advisor across valuation, business optimisation and buyer access. In recognition of his industry roles, he acts in a personal, non-partisan capacity.
Industry Partner, Hiring and Leadership
Nick leads FM Talent Partners, the facilities management and real estate leadership search firm, and is a leading specialist in building services and FM management talent. He partners with DealFlowAgent on two-way referrals: helping business owners and acquirers fill the key roles that decide whether a business is sellable, and introducing owners who are thinking about their next chapter to a team that knows their industry and their market. Key-person dependency is one of the two most common reasons a sale collapses, and Nick fixes it at source.
For every engagement we add a sector specialist from your industry to the core team: a 15–25 year operator or advisor with direct relationships in your niche. Recruited per deal so you get the right fit, not a generalist.
Two in-house AI systems work alongside the human bench. They are software, not people, built and supervised by the advisory team.
Available 24/7. Monitors every signal in your deal and keeps the advisory team one step ahead. Trained on thousands of M&A transactions.
Engages 13,000+ acquirers to surface live mandates and intent, then feeds your advisors with warm, ranked buyer matches.
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Why owners and acquirers choose
13,000+ buyers registered on platform plus our advisor network and institutional data tools — your business reaches every relevant acquirer.
We take your acquisition criteria from the form and the calibration call, then surface the strongest matches across our network. Human judgement, intelligence-supported precision.
Three clear phases. Start wherever you are: some owners begin at Phase One, others are ready for Phase Three today.
Start with your free valuation and value drivers report. It takes a few minutes, your data is strictly confidential, and it is never shared with buyers or anyone else.
You then have a confidential discovery call with an expert adviser, a grounded conversation about:
From there we walk through your valuation, the key factors that could move it, and the options open to you.
As light or as hands-on as you want it. A monthly check-in on how the month went and what could improve, or a half or full day with you and your directors at your office, plant or warehouse. We work through the factors our exit readiness scorecard measures, across people, operations, systems and processes, and the quick wins alone can materially move your valuation.
The patterns below come up again and again in founder-led businesses. Each one is fixable.
The end to end sale, run step by step. Nothing reaches a buyer until you have approved it.
Throughout, you are looked after by a dedicated core advisory team and industry specialists, with AI agents working beneath the advisers the way analysts and associates support a deal team. The top-tier banks reserve that bench strength for companies above £100 million in revenue. We bring it to yours.
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Six months or three years away from a sale, both are free and there is no obligation to proceed.
Pricing, relationships and know-how walk out of the door with you. Buyers price that risk into their offer.
Time, materials and margin slip quietly on live jobs, and by the time the accounts show it, the money is gone.
Financial reports, KPIs and pipeline figures arrive late because someone has to pull them together by hand.
Project work and ad-hoc jobs make cash flow hard to predict and cap the multiple a buyer will pay.
Organisations search Google and AI answer engines every day for providers in your niche, and find your competitors instead.
We agree whether to launch buyer conversations, pursue a hybrid route, keep preparing, or pause. The decision is evidence-led rather than pushed by advisor momentum.
Stage one buyer pack and data room
We build the teaser, the management narrative, the financial bridge and the stage one information pack. You approve the story before any buyer sees it.
We approach a curated set of buyers where there is a credible strategic, cultural or structural fit. The aim is buyer tension without creating noise around the business.
We qualify interest, prepare you for each meeting and keep a truthful view of buyer behaviour, concerns and seriousness.
Buyers receive deeper access only when their interest, fit and seriousness justify it. Information flow stays controlled.
We compare price, structure, retained equity, earn-out, role expectations, cultural fit and execution risk side by side rather than chasing the headline number alone.
We drive competitive tension where it exists, challenge weak terms and help select the route that best balances value, legacy and practical deliverability.
Legal, diligence and completion support
We project-manage the advisory workstream alongside your appointed solicitors so diligence, disclosure, legal drafting and buyer communication do not drift.
Signing, funds flow and the announcement. We handle press and completion-day communication with you, your team and the buyer.
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Compliance, Testing, Inspection & Certification M&A Advisory | UK and US
To buyers who understand statutory recurring revenue.
You have built a business that keeps buildings safe and legally compliant. Fire systems tested. Fire doors inspected. Water systems monitored. Fixed wiring certified. Lifts examined. Ventilation cleaned. That work is mandated by law, renews every year, and is exactly what acquirers are competing to own.
DealFlowAgent is a specialist M&A advisory for TIC and compliance owners across building services and facilities management in the UK and US. We run competitive processes that put multiple qualified offers on the table, so you choose the price, the terms and the buyer who will look after your engineers.
We advise owners serving commercial and institutional contract-holders. We do not advise on residential-only trade businesses.
Testing, Inspection & Compliance Space
These are a handful of the PE-backed platforms, listed groups and corporate acquirers building compliance and TIC businesses across the UK and US.
+ 13,000 more registered acquirers with defined search criteria
Before You Speak to Anyone
You have almost certainly been approached. PE-backed compliance platforms, national groups and trade buyers adding certifications to their coverage. Most owners have no reliable way to tell who is genuinely buying, who has committed capital, and who will spend four months on diligence before retrading the price.
Without competing offers there is no leverage. The buyer sets the pace, anchors low, and waits for you to get tired.
"How much of my revenue will a buyer actually treat as recurring?"
Buyers separate statutory testing and planned maintenance contracts from reactive call-outs and project work. Contracted, renewable compliance income is what earns the highest multiple. Presented poorly, it gets lumped in with one-off works and undervalued.
"What happens to my engineers and their accreditations?"
Your BAFE, NICEIC, LCA, SafeContractor and scheme registrations sit with qualified people. Acquirers are buying that certified capability, so retaining your engineers on existing terms is usually in their commercial interest as well as yours.
"Tightening regulation keeps coming. Does that help or hurt my timing?"
Tightening building safety, water safety and electrical inspection duties expand the mandated work your business already performs. That regulatory direction of travel is a tailwind for acquirers building compliance platforms.
TIC & Maintenance Business Owners
We work with owners of testing, inspection, certification and compliance maintenance businesses serving commercial and institutional contract-holders: NHS estates, local authorities, universities, MoD sites, housing associations, FM providers, industrial estates, retail portfolios and hospitality groups.
We Only Work in Compliance-Driven Sectors
Fire, water, electrical, lift, HVAC and wider statutory maintenance. We know the schemes, the certifications and the contract structures that determine what a buyer will pay.
You Will Have Multiple Offers
We run a competitive process with several qualified offers live at the same time, so you choose on price, terms and cultural fit rather than accepting the one approach in your inbox.
We Qualify Buyers Before They Meet You
Every acquirer is vetted for intent, capital and sector alignment before an introduction. No tyre-kickers, no fishing expeditions into your contract book.
building services and facilities management
Whatever you test, inspect, certify or maintain, the valuation logic is the same: mandated work, contracted revenue, accredited engineers, renewing customers. Every discipline below has its own advisory page with buyer activity, multiples and process detail.
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Fire door inspection and installation
Water, air and environmental testing
Electrical, mechanical and access certification