OVERVIEW

Highlights from our August 2025 Valuation Barometer, covering deals and valuation multiples in UK M&A in July 2025. Request the Executive Summary below.

HIGHLIGHTS

UK M&A activity continued its upward trend in July 2025, with 401 deal completions recorded as of the publication date.

BUYER MAKEUP

Trade buyers accounted for 61% of UK M&A deals in July. Private equity firms and their portfolio companies represented 28% of the deals recorded.

SPOTLIGHT TRANSACTIONS

Other deals during July included:

• Carpay’s acquisition of Alpha Group for £16 billion..
• Compass Group PLC’s acquisition of Vermaat Groep for £1.3 billion.
• SS&C Technologies’ acquisition of Calastone for £766 million.

The smaller end of the market witnessed the following deals:

• Marex Group PLC’s acquisition of Winterflood Securities (part of Close Brothers Group PLC) for £103.9 million.
• Norcros PLC’s acquisition of Fibo for $45 million.
• Card Factories PLC’s acquisition of Funky Pigeon for $24 million.

Request the executive report below. Please contact doug@marktomarket.io to discuss access to the full list of deals in the MarktoMarket Valuation Barometers.

For the full list of previous Barometers – visit our reports page.