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For business brokers, accountants, corporate finance and M&A advisers, and insolvency practitioners with a recruitment client thinking about what comes next.
Specialist, growing,and well led.
We invest only in recruitment and workforce businesses, in the UK, Europe and beyond.
Market
A specialist rather than a generalist, in a market that is growing.
Model
Real net fee income (also known as gross profit), a healthy share of contract or temporary work, and no single client the business depends on.
People
Leaders who want to stay and grow, and relationships spread across the team.
We moveat pace.
If it is not for us, we say so early, so your client can move on.
Alan Connor, our Chief Investment Officer, leads every opportunity from first look to completion, with Scott Coleman on the numbers and Pippa Williamson on the legal work.
Nine acquisitions in two years, seven of them in 2026. Five businesses joined Magnus Search in four months. Six businesses bought from Hays were trading under a new name ten weeks after completion.
Founder sales, carve-outs from larger groups, and businesses under financial pressure.
Every conversation is confidential, from the first call.
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