MSP Merger, Acquisition Experts: Meet Bradley Gross, Stephan May

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Gross is the founding partner of the Law Office of Bradley Gross, P.A., which focuses on transactions involving managed service providers, VARs, technology solution resellers, cloud solution providers, IT professionals and technology companies worldwide. He previously worked for one of the largest law firms in Florida, and he works as general counsel for some SaaS and HaaS solution providers.

Gross is set to speak at IT Nation 2012, hosted by ConnectWise, in November. With his bio in mind, I wonder if Gross has represented CharTec (a HaaS specialist in which ConnectWise Capital invested).

I don’t have any “behind the scenes” chatter about the M&A deals Gross has assisted, but I’m intrigued to know what he’ll cover at IT Nation…

TUC Capital’s Stephan May

Meanwhile, Stephan May recently joined TUC Capital, a new division of The Utility Company (TUC Brands) that will fund merger and acquisition activity. How big is TUC’s M&A war chest? I don’t know. But May has experience raising and managing money. He previously worked at Walton Capital, a real estate investment firms that apparently raises $500 million in capital annually. He also held senior positions at AxesNetwork and Green Swan Capital.

TUC apparently has three M&A funds underway:

TUC Brands CEO Mark Scott sees the opportunity for TUC Brands to be an “MSP Aggregator” — buying up managed services providers to gain economies of scale. TUC indicated that it’s in the process of completing several M&A deals, involving MSPs in the $5 million to $10 million revenue range.

M&A Experts We’ve Covered

So, who else is assisting MSP mergers and acquisitions?

That’s just a partial list. (Which companies did I miss? Comments welcome.)

And an important side note about MSP mergers and acquisitions: The media (MSPmentor included) spends a lot of time writing about the latest deals. But remember: Only a few dozen M&A deals involving IT service providers, VARs and MSPs occur each year –a pretty low figure considering there are roughly 80,000 to 120,000 channel partners in North America.