Alantra advised Alcumus Holdings Limited on the £47 million acquisition of Santia Holdings Limited, one of the UK’s leading providers of integrated health & safety and environment risk management services

Dec 2015

Buy-side advisory

Value £47 million

Alantra has advised Alcumus Holdings Limited on the £47 million acquisition of Santia Holdings Limited, one of the UK’s leading providers of integrated health & safety and environment risk management services. This significant acquisition, completed within just eight weeks of the buy-out of Alcumus, which Alantra also advised on, broadens Alcumus’ footprint in the accreditation and certification market. Equity funding for the acquisition was provided by Inflexion Private Equity and debt by Alcentra.

Alcumus is the market-leading provider of technology-enabled compliance, certification and verification risk management solutions. It is a specialist in its field and now has a wider, more diversified customer base. The enlarged business will serve over 30,000 clients both in the UK and internationally, including 35% of the FTSE 100, and will provide outsourced risk management services which are critical to compliance with UK regulations, internationally recognised standards and recognised contractor accreditation and supply chain verification schemes.