Building a Govtech Platform through strategic origination Omni Partners identified a significant opportunity to consolidate the highly fragmented UK Govtech…
BUY-SIDE INSIGHTS: Acquiring UK Technology Businesses Successfully
July 9, 2026
The UK technology market remains one of the most active and fragmented acquisition environments in Europe, particularly across software, managed…
SELL-SIDE INSIGHTS: What is better, selling to private equity or trade?
July 9, 2026
A private equity deal is often attractive but there are clear situations where a trade sale (selling to a corporate…
Claude for Legal: What will it mean for lawyers and software suppliers?
May 18, 2026
Anthropic has released Claude for Legal, linking Claude to the software and data sources that many legal teams already use,…
UK MSP M&A in 2025 and outlook for 2026
January 23, 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…
Newsletter – 2025 Annual Review
January 16, 2026
Happy new year! We entered 2025 after experiencing tough market conditions throughout the sector with M&A deal volume and private equity…
Consolidation & Digital Transformation in the UK Managed Print Services Sector
January 13, 2026
The UK Managed Print Services (MPS) market is currently undergoing a period of profound and accelerating transition. Driven by shifts…
Healthtech in 2025: Opportunities and Obstacles in a Divided Healthcare Landscape
September 23, 2025
At WTA Partners we pride ourselves on our distinct advantage in the market. Unlike our competitors, which include corporate finance…
Tips for a successful M&A transaction
May 27, 2025
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…
HDUK – Case Study
February 12, 2025
The Client Hosted Desktop UK Limited (“HDUK”) was founded in May 2010 and is predominantly a provider of Managed Cloud…
Newsletter – 2024 Annual Review
January 17, 2025
Welcome! Most of 2024 saw the continuation of tough market conditions throughout the sector with M&A deal volume and private…
The National Security & Investments Act: a trap for the unwary?
September 17, 2024
The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (“NSIA”), suggests to most of us that it’s to do with national security,…
Altnet fibre consolidation: lessons from history
May 3, 2024
Graeme Millar, who joined WTA Partners after thirty years in the telecoms and technology sector, to lead our Telecoms practice,…
Ensuring a successful exit from an IT business
April 23, 2024
Whether you are a sole owner, or a part of a management-ownership team, you have one consideration that’s always in…
Data: no longer the new oil?
February 8, 2024
About the author Nick Brown, most recently Group Managing Director of AIM listed GB Group PLC, a provider of digital…
Newsletter – H2 2023
January 10, 2024
Welcome! June to December of 2023 was a challenging time for the sector, with M&A deal volume and private equity…
Internet of Things (IoT) M&A
May 2, 2023
Review of the IoT Sector The growth and development of the AIoT sector have resulted in an increasing demand from…
Savanti – Case Study
April 27, 2023
Savanti are a strategic cyber security consultancy with a team of almost fifty. Their expertise covers strategy, security leadership, architecture…
Best Technology M&A & Business Advisory Service 2022
April 26, 2023
Acquisitions International Awards 2022 WTA Partners was named ‘Best Technology M&A and Business Advisory Service’ by Acquisitions International, in their…
Civica – Case Study
April 26, 2023
Civica UK Limited (Civica) is a global leader in public sector software provision delivering its own specialist cloud software solutions…
CTS – Case Study
April 26, 2023
Founded in 2006, CTS is the legal sector’s foremost provider of cloud and IT services in the UK and Republic…
Graffica – Case Study
April 26, 2023
Graffica is a business delivering simulation solutions through a staff of 30, who are highly specialised in researching, prototyping and…
Sourcevolution – Case Study
April 25, 2023
The client Sourcevolution was founded in 2003 and is a fast growing consulting and software developmentcompany specialising in business intelligence,…
Oosha – Case Study
April 19, 2023
Oosha were founded in March 2009, and are a provider of cloud, hosting and managed IT services including Managed Desktop,…
Healthcare IT Checkup
March 8, 2022
With the ongoing global health crisis now entering its third year it might be easy to overlook market activity away…
What makes an MSP attractive to a buyer?
September 19, 2021
WTA Partners ran a webinar on Cloud Services M&A. In one of the five sessions given by four speakers, Jeffrey…
Review of the year and the technology M&A market
January 4, 2021
2020 was a year most will want to forget and hope that the introduction of the new vaccines will allow…
Technology sector M&A in Covid times
July 6, 2020
The first six months of 2020 included an unprecedented period for the UK software and services sectors. Here we provide…
