Professional & IT Services Sector Team

Digital technologies and IT plays an increasingly important role across the entire economy, and thus the dividing line between people-based IT services, technology-based IT services and technology-based business services continues to blur. The Eaton Square Professional & IT Services team draws together our international experience working with white collar people-based consulting and legal practices, along with our experience working in IT consulting services and managed services.

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Our Core Focus

From a definitional perspective our Professional & IT Services team focusses on:

People-based businesses providing professional consulting or legal services;
Technology-based service businesses ranging from IT infrastructure providers, technology distributors through to technologydependent business-information platforms;
Combination businesses.

Many of our team have backgrounds in the IT industries and we understand how the complexities of the technology market landscape shape the demand for specialist capabilities, geographic penetration and customer base. Others have grown and managed professional services organisations.

Consequently, our team has worked with every type of businesses in the Professional & IT Services sector:

d. Professional Services: Accounting, Legal and Consulting practicese.
e. IT Services:recruiters, contingent labour, project-based systems integrators, product distributors
f. Managed Services Business: In collaboration with the Eaton Square Cloud & SaaS team: ISP, MSPs, MSSPs
g. Technology-enabled Information Services: Platform-based back-office service;Information brokers.

Call us today if you are interested in selling your business, making acquisitions, securing equity investment or debt finance.

It was important for our founders and shareholders to be able to consider the various options for the next stage of their ownership in the firm. Eaton Square enables us to consider trade sale versus PE and to contrast the opportunities domestically versus those that international players offered.
Bruce Williams CEO at Shelde

Eaton Square were a great help in our transaction because they understood services businesses. This was important because the value in services businesses is the people and IP and so the way buyers looked at our firm was different that traditional asset-based business. Eaton Square got services business and also managed our shareholders’ varying needs through the sale process astutely.
Jason Murray CEO at Madston Black

It was important for us to find a buyer for our firm that provided opportunities for us to leverage our experience and skills internationally while continuing to provide an attractive environment for our teams. Eaton Square’s international reach enabled us to consider global opportunites and find the right fit for our firm.
Sheldon Sherman Founding Shareholder and Director at Corview

Introducing our Professional and IT Services Sector team

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About Eaton Square

Eaton Square is a cross-border M&A and capital service firm with over 100 senior professionals in 26 offices across US, Canada, China & HongKong, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Switzerland, Spain, Singapore, and Malaysia. We assist technology, services, and growth companies to:

Capitalize on the value they have built in their business for shareholders
Undertake mergers and acquisitions
Access the capital they need to grow and expand.

Eaton Square’s principals have completed over 1,100 business transactions and served hundreds more in strategic advisory engagements.

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