PPP Consultants
Transactions & M&A
Acquisition and disposal, from origination to funded completion.
The firm advises sponsors, investors and contractors who are buying or selling infrastructure businesses. That covers stakes in Public Private Partnership project companies, infrastructure operating businesses, and corporate acquisitions in the sector. The work runs from screening and valuation, through negotiation and acquisition finance, to completion. It is led by a partner who has done it as principal, on both sides of the table.
How the work runs.
SCREEN
Targets are tested against the client's strategy at explicit Go/No-Go gates. Capital and management time follow only the opportunities that pass.
VALUE
Each target is valued on a decision-grade financial model, built to be questioned by boards and lenders. The model is stress-tested to forensic-review standard, with risk, sensitivity and scenario analysis.
NEGOTIATE
Negotiation is led by a partner who has bought and sold businesses as principal. The client has someone at the table who has sat on both sides of it.
FUND
Acquisition finance is raised in competition across five capital pools. Lenders and investors offer competing terms for the same transaction.
COMPLETE
Partner-led support continues through lender due diligence to completion. Due diligence, documents and funding are brought to a single completion date.
M&A - as principal
Corporate acquisitions
Disposals
PPP project-company M&A
The firm’s Chief Executive was responsible for UK and Ireland M&A on the main board of Sonoco Products Company, a US Fortune 500 company. He proposed, researched and negotiated the acquisition of competitors, and raised the acquisition finance from UK banks.
The same main-board responsibility covered the sale side. He negotiated and completed the sale of Sonoco’s 50 per cent interest in a joint venture in Ireland to Jefferson Smurfit, a large-company negotiation and transaction. He also ran the disposal of a board-mills division. A client selling a business is advised by someone who has sold them.
As lead bid director of the NYOP consortium, the firm’s Chief Executive bought PPP project companies and operating businesses as the consortium’s route into the market. They included Operon, a UK facilities-management company, and the Ruthin and North Yorkshire Schools project companies. Each was screened, negotiated, funded and completed as principal.
A sponsor can enter or leave a mature project by buying or selling a stake in the project company.
Related insight.
Project Finance
Raising competitive infrastructure finance — capital follows credibility.
Capital for infrastructure is not scarce; credibility is.
September 2026
From first conversation to close
1
First conversation
A direct, partner-led conversation under commercial confidentiality to understand the project and what you need.
2
Diagnostic
We assess the project's commercial structure, risk allocation and bankability, and define where we add value.
3
Engagement letter
A clear scope and terms — from a single deliverable to full Project Director responsibility through to Financial Close.
4
Partner-led delivery
Senior partners lead the work throughout, from mandate to close.
The first conversation.
Every first conversation is partner-led and conducted under commercial confidentiality. We set out, with you, how PPP Consultants will deliver the outcomes you require.
