Welcome to Orbis Partners, recently rebranded as Clairfield

We are pleased to announce that we have recently rebranded as Clairfield. This website contains our historic transactions. Click here to visit our clairfield website

We are an independent corporate finance advisory firm, working with business owners, management teams and investors to advise them through every aspect of corporate finance.

Our partners have over 80 years of deal-making experience and combine their broad network of global relationships with deep sector knowledge and investor skills to deliver a specialist M&A experience.

We are the UK partner of Clairfield International, an independent, international corporate finance partnership that provides advisory services to clients across an array of industries, which gives us access to over 300 corporate finance professionals situated in over 22 country teams across the globe.

Services

Company Sales

MBOs & MBIs

Capital Raising

Acquisition Support

Due Diligence

Business Improvement

Orbis provided not only strong commercial input but also took good care of the detail from LOI through to completion.

Dave Allen, Managing Director

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Sectors

Healthcare

Technology, Media & Telecoms

Industrials

Food & Consumer Goods

Business Services

Natural Resources, Clean Technology & Energy

Sector Snapshots

Each month our experienced team review the M&A market in our key sectors to track the progress of UK businesses.
Take a look at our most recent sector snapshots below.

Healthcare Services Market H2 2022 & Q1 2023

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Debt Collection 2022

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ICT Services M&A H2 2022

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Building Products & Distribution – H2 2022

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Deals & Case Studies

Orbis Partners Advises on the sale of Intec Microsystems to Chiltern Capital and Management

Supported by

Tom McCarthy
Nick Wall
Adam Grenfell

Orbis Partners has advised Minworth headquartered Premier Paper Group on the acquisition of Dublin based GPMI which is the latest company to be acquired by the Group.

Supported by

Chris Gregory
Nick Reed

Orbis Partners has advised Minworth headquartered Premier Paper Group on its acquisition of speciality packaging and retail display company WBC.

Supported by

Chris Gregory
Nick Reed

Orbis Partners have advised Broadriver Holdings (“Broadriver”) on its disposal to an Employee Ownership Trust whilst raising finance from Virgin Money.

Supported by

Gary Ecob
Nick Wall
Liam Hadfield

Orbis have advised on the sale of Kestrel Aluminium Systems Limited and Kestrel Powder Coating Limited (together “Kestrel”) to Schueco UK Limited.

Supported by

Tom McCarthy
Harriet Denning
Liam Hadfield

Orbis have advised the shareholders of Worcester based The First Class Pet Company (trading as Little BigPaw) on the sale of the business to Petbuddy Group AB.

Supported by

Steve Nock
James Grenfell
Adam Grenfell

Orbis advised on the sale of Regis Healthcare, a CAMHS low secure mental health hospital, to Elysium Healthcare.

Supported by

Shah Zaki
Steve Nock
Liam Hadfield

Orbis have advised on the sale of OGL Computer Support and CyberGuard Technologies, together a leading provider of IT Services and Cyber Security, to Macquarie Capital backed Wavenet.

Supported by

Shah Zaki
Nick Wall

Orbis has advised Stuart Turner on their strategic acquisition of Aquatronic Group Management (AGM), a leading provider of cold-water boosting equipment and services in the UK.

Supported by

Chris Gregory
Peter Waplington

Orbis Partners have advised, Customs Support Group (“CSG”), Europe’s leading independent provider of customs services, on two strategic acquisitions – UK Customs Solutions and Osborn Customs Services.

Supported by

Gary Ecob
Peter Waplington
Liam Hadfield

Latest News

Orbis advises on the sale of Intec Microsystems to Chiltern Capital and Management

22nd August 2023

Orbis advises on the sale of Intec Microsystems to Chiltern Capital and Management

Orbis advises Premier Paper on Irish acquisition

12th January 2023

Orbis has advised Minworth headquartered Premier Paper Group on the acquisition of Dublin based GPMI.

Orbis advises on a new acquisition for Premier Paper Group

7th December 2022

Orbis has advised Minworth headquartered Premier Paper Group on its acquisition of speciality packaging and retail display company WBC.

Orbis advise Broadriver Holdings on its disposal to an Employee Ownership Trust

24th October 2022

Orbis have advised Broadriver Holdings on its disposal to an Employee Ownership Trust.

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The statutory directors of Orbis Partners Ltd are Chris Gregory, James Grenfell, Gary Ecob and Shah Zaki.