01 · Overview

Acquisitions, governed like a separate entity.

AMPM Ventures is the corporate-development arm. It’s the route through which acquisitions and acqui-hires — operational depth, regional reach, complementary capability — attach to the group, and it’s deliberately governed independently of the trading subsidiaries.

The reason is structural: trading subs answer to operating performance; an acquisition vehicle has to answer to a different test (fit, multiple, integration risk). Putting them under the same management is how mid-market groups make bad acquisitions.

02 · What we’re looking for

Three shapes of fit.

  • Operational depth — Established life-safety, M&E or compliance specialists with a defendable book and a stable senior team. The team and operating depth need to stay — the deal is built around them, not despite them.
  • Regional reach — Operators outside the South-East and London who’d benefit from the group’s enterprise stack (Uptick, Procore, M365), procurement weight, and EOT social-value posture — without losing their local relationships.
  • Complementary capability — Specialisms adjacent to what we already do: duct cleaning, dry-riser, fire-extinguisher servicing, mechanical fire suppression, specialist passive remediation, security systems integration.

03 · How approaches work

Informal first. Owners speak to owners.

Phase 01 — Informal conversation

First contact is owner-to-owner. No NDA at this stage — we use the conversation to test whether a fit is real before either side spends professional fees.

Phase 02 — Indicative shape

If both sides want to continue, we put an indicative deal shape on paper — structure, range, headline terms. NDA at this point, advisors engaged on both sides.

Phase 03 — Due diligence

Operational, financial, regulatory. AMPM Ventures runs DD in-house alongside external advisors; we don’t outsource the whole exercise because it’s how we learn whether the fit holds.

Phase 04 — Completion + integration

Capital-backed completion. Integration is run as a 12-month programme with a named owner — the acquired team keeps its mark and its focus inside the group’s branded-house architecture.

ventures@ampm.co.uk — speak to us in confidence.