BUY-SIDE INSIGHTS: Acquiring UK Technology Businesses Successfully
The UK technology market remains one of the most active and fragmented acquisition environments in Europe, particularly across software, managed services, and cyber security. For acquisitive businesses, securing successful transactions […]
SELL-SIDE INSIGHTS: What is better, selling to private equity or trade?
A private equity deal is often attractive but there are clear situations where a trade sale (selling to a corporate buyer) is the smarter choice. What follows is a practical, […]
Claude for Legal: What will it mean for lawyers and software suppliers?
Anthropic has released Claude for Legal, linking Claude to the software and data sources that many legal teams already use, including new legal plugins and integrations with platforms such as […]
UK MSP M&A in 2025 and outlook for 2026
M&A in the sector was dampened making 2025 a challenging year for the MSP/IT-services sector. Broadly deal-making slowed, transactions took longer, and many businesses went into a more conservative mode. […]
Consolidation & Digital Transformation in the UK Managed Print Services Sector
The UK Managed Print Services (MPS) market is currently undergoing a period of profound and accelerating transition. Driven by shifts in working models, declining print volumes, and escalating customer technology […]
Healthtech in 2025: Opportunities and Obstacles in a Divided Healthcare Landscape
At WTA Partners we pride ourselves on our distinct advantage in the market. Unlike our competitors, which include corporate finance houses, investment banks, and divisions of larger accounting firms, our […]
Tips for a successful M&A transaction
Preparing owners for their deal of a lifetime For most owner-managed businesses, selling is a once-in-a-lifetime event. For buyers, it’s often just another transaction. This imbalance can make negotiations tricky, […]
The National Security & Investments Act: a trap for the unwary?
The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (“NSIA”), suggests to most of us that it’s to do with national security, weapons, defence and suchlike and isn’t relevant but that is […]
Altnet fibre consolidation: lessons from history
Graeme Millar, who joined WTA Partners after thirty years in the telecoms and technology sector, to lead our Telecoms practice, takes a look at the UK Altnet sector. He sees […]
Ensuring a successful exit from an IT business
Whether you are a sole owner, or a part of a management-ownership team, you have one consideration that’s always in your mind. When is the correct time to sell, and […]
Data: no longer the new oil?
About the author Nick Brown, most recently Group Managing Director of AIM listed GB Group PLC, a provider of digital location, identity and fraud and compliance solutions is our most […]
Internet of Things (IoT) M&A
Review of the IoT Sector The growth and development of the AIoT sector have resulted in an increasing demand from clients for our services as they seek to expand their […]
Healthcare IT Checkup
With the ongoing global health crisis now entering its third year it might be easy to overlook market activity away from Covid-19 related headlines. However, the wider Healthcare IT sector […]
What makes an MSP attractive to a buyer?
WTA Partners ran a webinar on Cloud Services M&A. In one of the five sessions given by four speakers, Jeffrey Jenner, who leads our Cloud Services practice, presented on “What […]
Review of the year and the technology M&A market
2020 was a year most will want to forget and hope that the introduction of the new vaccines will allow a return to a more normal life for both business […]
Technology sector M&A in Covid times
The first six months of 2020 included an unprecedented period for the UK software and services sectors. Here we provide insight on the Covid impact on M&A based on our […]