Opportunities For Your Business

It's all about passion and potential

Is your business at the right stage for private equity?

You could be an established recruitment consultancy with a driven and experienced management team. You may be looking to grow and realise an exit with a significant equity share in the next few years. Maybe you’re a young, high growth business that’s looking to accelerate that growth through an injection of capital. Perhaps you’re an ambitious and experienced recruitment professional thinking about starting your own venture but in need of financial backing and a business partner to grow with. Or you could have simply cut your teeth as a recruitment consultant and are looking to take the next step in your career.

Whatever you’re current situation – you recognise that in order to maximise your businesses’ potential, you need a business partner that can help get you to where you want to be. That’s where Hamilton Bradshaw can help. If you have the passion and potential we’re looking for, you’ll find no faster route to success than by partnering with us.

In recent years, Hamilton Bradshaw has invested in a truly diverse range of recruitment businesses.  Not only has this led to impressive growth, it’s also given us a keen sense of knowing what to look for in terms of the best opportunities in the UK’s mid-market recruitment space.

We’re particularly keen to talk to established recruitment businesses with strong management teams who can show us impressive hands-on experience operating in growing or emerging markets. It goes without saying that you’ll need good fundamental internal metrics, a strong balance sheet and watertight governance in place.

Where and how do we invest?

Whether you’re a recruitment consultant at the top of your game, an accomplished management team that wants to further grow the business or an owner/shareholder seeking to exit an already successful business, Hamilton Bradshaw could be your solution.

In November 2010, we launched a fund with a specific focus on the following recruitment sectors - IT/Professional Services (accountancy, finance, legal, HR), Oil and Gas, Social/Domiciliary Care and Digital sectors. However, we will continue to consider investments in other sectors for high growth companies, either in markets not currently represented in our portfolio or where there is a cross over with our existing businesses.

Below are the four types of investment we typically make.

Joint Ventures

Joint Ventures - Start Up

If you are a top recruitment biller with capital to invest, and are looking to launch your own venture then this may be an attractive route for you to take. Hamilton Bradshaw will provide the capital and expertise for you to drive your new venture forward and work closely with you to achieve a significant market share, all with a view to a 3-5 year exit.

View the Hamilton Bradshaw Joint Venture Book.
Early Stage Growth

Early Stage Growth

We are looking for businesses with high growth trajectory; if early stage we would also like to hear from ambitious top billers who have capital to invest. Our ideal EBIT level would be £500k profit through to larger more mature businesses. We would provide a platform for future growth up to £5 million EBIT.

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Growth Development

Growth Development
Capital Buy-Outs

We're looking for experienced management teams within recruitment businesses that are already highly successful. What will set you apart is the ambition and desire to accelerate your growth over a 3-5 year period, thus creating significantly greater benefits for you at exit. Hamilton Bradshaw will inject capital of equity to fuel that growth through joint ventures, organic growth and M & A activity.

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Exit Realisation

Maximising Value

By following a specialist and structured process we can enable you to present your business to deliver exactly what the market looks for in order to generate maximum value on exit. We have a significant network within the recruitment and private equity sectors, there's also the possibility of attracting secondary buy-outs or trade sales at exit. If you're a significant shareholder who's looking to exit a successful recruitment business, we'll bring our vast experience of buy outs, including MBOs, MBIs and BIMBOs (a compromise between a MBO and a MBI). If you're looking to exit the business in 3-5 years This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .