Building value beyond a single exit event
Ingenia Global Partners supports strategic M&A partnerships as an alternative to a traditional third-party exit.
Under this model, recruitment business founders sell into the Ingenia platform, realising liquidity while ensuring long-term development of value as part of a larger, diversified global group.
Rather than a full separation at the point of sale, the structure is designed around leadership continuity and reinvestment.
Businesses become part of a multi-brand portfolio, accessing global markets, collective know-how, infrastructure, and operational capability, while remaining aligned to a future group-level exit over time.
What the M&A structure delivers
Liquidity with Advantage
Realise value today while retaining meaningful equity participation in a larger, higher-value platform.
Value Growth
Leverage the longer-term valuation uplift over time through diversification, technology, and international reach.
Reduced Risk
Reduced personal exposure while increasing enterprise value through shared capability and collective strength.
A Defined Exit
Access support for continued growth within a group strategy designed to deliver long-term value and a future exit.
Strategic M&A partner value proposition
Global Market Expansion
We enable international expansion with intent. Strategic M&A partners leverage our established group presence across key global markets to access wider talent pools, support international clients, and confidently enter new regions.
Capital & Investment Support
Strategic M&A partners gain access to capital and significant investment experience to facilitate growth. This can include geographic expansion, service diversification, senior leadership hires, or targeted acquisitions aligned with each business’s strategy.
Collaborative Decision-Making
Strategic M&A partners participate in steering groups across Technology & Data, People & Development, Client Strategy, and Communication & Culture. Our Strategic Board provides input on group direction, ensuring the portfolio shapes our collective success.
Executive & Leadership Development
The group supports leadership development through executive programmes, functional training, and masterclasses. These initiatives are designed to share best practice, support capability building, and encourage collaboration across portfolio businesses.
Shared Systems & Infrastructure
Strategic M&A partners have access to established systems across CRM, finance, data, and operations. These shared platforms allow them to easily and effectively enter new markets, ensure consistency, and operational efficiency across the group.
Wealth Creation on the Journey
Strategic M&A partners earn throughout the growth trajectory, not just at group exit. Our evolving mechanisms include performance-based incentives, divisional P&L rewards, and recognition for achieving strategic milestones aligned with our 2030 objectives.
Partner employees
Specialist businesses
Core market sectors
The power of collective direction
Our group is designed to drive collaboration and shared success.
Strategic Board
We win and grow together. Leaders from across the global portfolio provide valuable input on the direction and initiatives of the group, as well as on the progress toward achieving our joint strategic objectives.
Steering Groups
Meetings with representatives from our portfolio brands help guide ongoing improvements to our Technology & Data, People & Development, Client Strategy, and Communication & Culture.
Collective Service Capability
We help combine deep specialist expertise with access to a global collective. Where a partner’s capability ends, the group begins, enabling seamless delivery across disciplines, geographies, and service models through a coordinated framework.
Continuity and evolution
Strategic M&A partner businesses retain their leadership and specialist focus. Each continues to operate within its market, maintaining client relationships and sector expertise, while benefiting from shared services, global reach, and more diversified revenue models.
What changes is that they gain the power of a global platform, access to shared technology, leadership capability, data, and international delivery across Executive Search, RPO, MSP, Statement of Work, Embedded Talent, and Contingent & Contract Recruitment.
With specialist businesses across six international markets, Ingenia Global Partners is focused on building a high-growth, high-value international group.
This is not about ending the journey. It’s about accelerating it, inside a stronger, more valuable platform.
Explore what partnership looks like
We're always open to conversations about how we can help recruitment business owners achieve their long-term strategic objectives.
Get in touch to learn how we can grow together.