Recruitment company in management buyout
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NES Group product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Sep 6, 2006
Graphite Capital is backing a GBP 86 million management buyout of the NES Group.
Graphite Capital, the leading UK mid-market private equity specialist, is backing a GBP 86 million management buyout of the NES Group from its founders, Geoff Lloyd and Bryan Sullivan, along with Bridgepoint, the private equity group.
NES is a fast growing global technical recruitment business providing professionally qualified contract staff to blue chip clients across the world in the oil and gas, infrastructure, rail and power sectors.
It also has an IT staffing and accredited training operation in the UK.
NES was founded in 1978.
Bridgepoint backed a GBP 32 million buyout in May 1999.
The company has developed into a well diversified business in terms of customers, geography and sector.
With headquarters in Manchester, NES operates from 14 offices - seven in the UK and the rest in the USA, the Middle East and South-East Asia.
The company has nearly 2400 contractors, spread throughout 40 countries.
They work on large, long-term projects overseas such as the Dubai Metro, the Kashagan offshore oil project in Kazakhstan and the Nanhai petrochemicals complex in China.
NES' clients include a number of major multinational companies including Shell, Alstom Power and Obayashi, as well as UK Government departments and other public bodies.
NES Chief Executive Neil Tregarthen is leading the highly experienced buyout team, which includes Mark Tully, Managing Director and Philip Lanigan, Finance Director of the UK operations.
The nonexecutive Chairman will be Stephen Ross, formerly of 3i and ex-founder of Springboard, a Graphite-backed business.
The growth of NES has accelerated since Tregarthen joined the business two years ago.
Since then, profits and net fee income (a key indicator for recruitment companies) have shown compound growth of an expected 33 and 47% per annum, respectively, in the year to October 2006.
Turnover is expected to show a 16% increase to GBP 177 million.
All of the markets in which the group operates are expected to expand.
The increase in the price of oil has already stimulated long term projects in upstream oil and gas activity.
The International Energy Agency forecasts investment of some $8 trillion to meet the energy needs of developing and middle income countries in the next 25 years.
At the same time, UN-sponsored initiatives on clean drinking water and reconstruction and development projects will drive growth in the infrastructure market globally.
In the UK, both Network Rail and London Underground have substantial five year investment programmes spurred, in part, by the 2012 Olympics.
Tregarthen says: "We were impressed by Graphite's record in the recruitment sector".
"With its support, we foresee substantial organic growth in all our key markets".
"Nearly half our contractors are already working on assignments of nine months or more and we plan to increase that%age along with the proportion of permanent placements".
"We are also looking to expand the number of overseas offices, leverage our relationships with existing clients and develop further our accredited training programmes".
Graphite senior partner David Williams adds: "The UK is a global leader in the recruitment industry and NES is a well-managed, world class business".
"Graphite has already successfully backed several companies in the sector including Huntress, Aktrion and, most recently, TMP Worldwide".
"We have known Neil Tregarthen for some time and have been impressed both by his achievements and by the growth potential of NES".
Graphite will have a majority holding in the company.
Alongside its equity investment, Graphite has arranged a debt and bank financing package from Royal Bank of Scotland.
David Williams, Mike Tilbury and John O'Neill managed the transaction for Graphite and David Caunce and Phil Mason for Royal Bank of Scotland.
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