About Abraham Garver

Abraham Garver is a MSP banker for FOCUS Investment Banking. Over the past four years the team has advised on MSP transactions with 76 parties including catapulting the 12 MSP below into “New Platforms” for private equity sponsors: The Purple Guys (ECS + My IT) TechMD (formerly ICS) General Informatics Integris (Domain + Tier 1) Cantey Tech (Cantey Tech + Cantey EDU) CyberSheath ITS (Intelligent Technical Solutions + Intivix + PC Miracles) Entech (Entech + ITVantage) ProVelocity + IronEdge Lockstep + Renovus Capital MSP Corp + Groupe Access Announcement Pending Over his career Mr. Garver has worked on sell-, buy- and valuation assignments with approximately 150 public, private, and fastest-growing members of the MSP 501, CRN500, ChannelE2E Top 100 & Inc. 500 and served as a guest commentator on Bloomberg, MSP Business School and at NASDAQ. Mr. Garver is a recurring conference speaker for IT Nation Connect, Channel Partners and MSSP Alert Live and recurring news source for ChannelE2E, CRN, Channel Futures, TechTarget & PEHub. As an author he has contributed over 125 articles in numerous publications including FORBES. Prior to joining FOCUS, Abraham worked with Merrill Lynch’s M&A Technology Group in San Francisco and E&Y’s Business Valuation Group in Los Angeles. In addition to his professional pursuits, Mr. Garver is a member of The University Club of New York and Governor (Emeritus) of the University of Southern California Alumni Association. Mr. Garver holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and a master’s degree in finance from the Manderson Graduate School. He is registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as a General Securities Representative (Series 7 and 63) and a Limited Representative – Investment Banking (Series 79). Recent MSP/MSSP Deal Experience MSP Corp ProVelocity Entech Computer Services, Inc. Cantey Technology Consulting, LLC Golden Technologies, Inc. Security7 Networks, LLC DS Tech Versiant Corporation, Inc. Cantey Technology Consulting, LLC The Network Support Company, LLC Integrated Computer Solutions of Vestal, LLC DSM Technology Consultants, LLC Intelligent Technical Solutions, Inc. Lighthouse Technology Partners Accelerate, Inc. CMS IP Technologies Unicom Technologies CyberSheath Services International, LLC AKUITY Technologies General Informatics Frontenac XI Private Capital, L.P. ECS Acquisition Holdings, LLC

The MSP M&A Market 2023: Bigger Deals, More Money, More Rollups

2024-02-19T18:16:05+00:00May 11, 2023|Blogs, Managed Service Providers, Technology Services|

Merger and acquisition activity in the IT service provider, managed services, cloud services, and other technology service provider space has been robust so far in 2023. But there are some shifts happening in the size of M&A deals. For instance, earlier this week, ChannelE2E reported on a gigantic and complex rollup deal of 15 managed service providers into a single company called MSP Corp. This new company will provide IT managed services to the entire country of Canada. Another deal announced this week marked the rollup of 4 MSPs into a single company, Procurement IT.

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