patterns / rollup_prof_services
buyout thesisfounder-led professional-services firm at scale (accountancy, legal, consultancy, IFA, insurance broking) in a sector PE is actively consolidating — sells well above the base rate
The b2b_tech recipe applied to the professional-services roll-up — the single hottest consolidation theme in UK mid-market PE. A scaled, founder-owned firm in one of these sectors is squarely in the acquisition path: the backtest sells it well above the base rate, and it almost never fails.
Proprietary M&A / acquisition-finance origination against an active buyer pool — the platforms are already acquiring; this is the next target before it is approached.
The badge is recomputed nightly across the whole index, and re-evaluated live the moment a company files — so a match is always a statement about the current register, not a stale list. Like every signal on the radar: a prompt to look closer, never a verdict.