ABOUT
Build Broker is the M&A practice of GIE Capital Ltd. We run confidential sale, acquisition and succession processes for owner-led trades, compliance and specialist services businesses across the UK.
Most business brokers are marketing companies. They list, they circulate, and they are paid to sign you up. We are not built that way.
Build Broker was set up by operators with two decades in private-equity-backed and professional services businesses: running them, buying and integrating them, and preparing them for sale. We know how an investment committee reads a set of accounts, what a platform buyer is actually paying for, and where diligence goes wrong. That is the standard we prepare your business to.
We take on a limited number of mandates at any time, and we only take a mandate when we can see who would buy the business. Every process is run by a senior person from the first conversation to completion. Nothing is listed, nothing is circulated, and nothing moves without your approval.
We work in the sectors where acquirers are most active: fire and security, lift maintenance, water hygiene, electrical compliance and testing, and the maintenance and specialist service businesses around them. We keep a running record of who is buying, and we build our own owner data rather than waiting for enquiries.
TEAM
Founder and lead adviser
Leads every mandate. Twenty years in senior digital, product and operating roles across private-equity-backed businesses, professional services and high-growth technology companies, including a listed information group, a Big Four-adjacent professional services firm and a PE-owned information management business. Trained at London Business School.
Transaction finance
Independent transaction-finance specialists prepare normalised earnings, working-capital and diligence schedules for every mandate, on a fixed fee.
Research
Owner-universe mapping, accreditation registers and buyer tracking, maintained continuously.
PRINCIPLES