IT Business Services & subsectors
- IT Outsourced Services
- Tech Services & Support
- Integration Services
Hampleton's IT and Business Services practice is led by Axel Brill, Jonathan Simnett, Michel Annink and Miro Parizek, who bring decades of operational and transactional experience in the services sector and a worldwide network of relationships with relevant buyers.
Our partners and directors have managed successful projects in sub-sectors such as call- and service-centres, compliance testing, distribution services, hosting, IT security, managed systems, near- and off-shore development, software implementation and systems integration.
The IT & Business Services team has advised on deals in various vertical industries including automobile, banking, health care, insurance, government, manufacturing and retail, and concluded transactions with both financial and strategic acquirers such as Carlyle, EDS (now part of HPE), GLI, Horizon Capital, IAV, SAGlobal, and Via Equity Partners.
Featured IT & Business transaction M&A
The sale of CPU 24│7 to IAV
Hampleton Partners advised CPU 24│7, a cutting-edge provider of HPC managed services, on its acquisition by IAV, a leading engineering services firm for the automotive industry. This acquisition equips IAV with unparalleled experience in CAE and HPC applications.
CPU 24│7’s singular knowledge in the configuration, provision and maintenance of supercomputing systems gives IAV the ability to offer its automotive clients hosted HPC services, outsourcing resource-intensive CAE tasks that would otherwise be uneconomic or impossible.
Featured IT & Business transaction M&A
The sale of 360 Vertical Solutions to SAGlobal
Hampleton Partners advised SAGlobal on acquiring 360 Vertical Solutions, a leading provider of Dynamics 365 CRM/Sales solutions for professional services industries. The merger creates the unquestioned leader in Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions and services for professional services firms and other project-based organisations. The combined company will do business as SAGlobal, but will retain and expand key 360 Vertical Solutions products that include AEC360, Legal360, and Sync360.
Featured IT & Business transaction M&A
The sale of NMi to GLI
Hampleton Partners advised the UK founders of Wales-based NMi Metrology & Gaming in the sale to US-based GLI Group (GLI). NMi Metrology & Gaming is a market-leading compliance testing and auditing laboratory in the fields of gaming and IT security, whilst GLI delivers the highest quality land-based, lottery and iGaming testing and assessment services with laboratory locations on six continents.
Principal Partner
Miro Parizek established Hampleton in 2013 with a group of fellow deal makers and technology industry entrepreneurs, uniting hands-on industry expertise and seasoned transaction experience together for the optimal M&A advisory. Miro has been providing M&A advisory services to the technology industry since the pre-dot.com era and has managed scores of transactions supporting privately-held sellers and publicly-traded companies, ranging from 20 to over 2,000 employees.Miro has 30 years of experience in the software and IT industry.
Prior to his M&A career, which began in 1998, Miro founded and ran three software and IT related firms in the ’80s and ’90s, including a leading international software vendor, North American Software. He was a founding member and, for over a decade, treasurer of the German Software Association, which was merged with the country’s multi-media association, creating today’s national association for digital economy (BVDW).
Miro’s experience spans virtually the entire information technology industry. He has managed and closed transactions in sectors as diverse as 3D-imaging, asset management, business intelligence, business performance management, compiler software, CRM, customer services, design collaboration, content and document management, data center automation, e-Learning, enterprise systems management, ERP, GIS sub-systems, human capital management, Internet commerce, IT services, logistics, SaaS, simulation, storage solutions, supply chain management, telecom products, unified messaging, video editing, workforce management and various other verticals. Miro is an avid skier, hiker and enjoys time with his wife and young twins.
Miro has degrees in International Finance from the Wharton School of Business and in Computer Science from the Moore School of Engineering. In addition to his English mother tongue, Miro speaks fluent German after having lived in Germany for over twenty years.
Director
Jonathan has been involved in the enterprise technology business for over three decades, managing and turning around existing business and helping management and their investors in fast-growth technology segments to grow, manage change, enter markets, transfer technologies, acquire, merge and sell. He’s worked with large and public infrastructure and system integration companies including: AT&T, Avaya, BroadSoft, BT, C&W, Cisco, HP, Global Switch, GMC, Huawei, Informix, Infosys, Intel, Myriad Group, Novell, IBM, IGT, Nortel, OpenReach, Pace, TCS, and Sybase.
In addition, he has also worked with fast growth and venture-backed companies taking many to trade sale/public offering including: Calyx, Cambridge Cognition, CloudApps, Concateno, e2v technologies, Ecotricity, Engensa, free2give, Getjar, Holition, Intuwave, Interoute, Logicalis, Medelinked, Multiven, Natural Machines, NMQA, Qinec, Socialbakers, Thorn Medical and Zomm.
He holds a Master’s degree in Science and Technology Policy from The University of Manchester, attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business and blogs on technology innovation, marketing and management at "The World According to WestFour".
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Hampleton Partner advises STAGIL on acquisition by TIMETOACT Group
Hampleton Partners advised STAGIL GmbH, one of Germany’s largest Atlassian Platinum and Enterprise Solution Partners, on the integration with TIMETOACT GROUP. The international M&A and Corporate Finance Advisory firm for technology companies supported STAGIL during every phase of the transaction process.
