Customer Stories — How RSK Accelerates its M&A Pipeline with Beauhurst

“Beauhurst has enhanced our ability to map, track, and engage with acquisition targets across the UK and Germany.”

Joshua Burdass
M&A Assistant Manager

Customer overview

RSK is a well-established global leader in the delivery of environmental and engineering solutions. Its well-documented acquisition programme focuses on standalone or bolt-on acquisitions to expand existing or create new service offerings across its core sectors, including water, energy, infrastructure, and the built and natural environment.

Working with Beauhurst delivered

In-depth market and competitor M&A reports that inform sector prioritisation and tactical engagement.
Hundreds of qualified acquisition targets in priority sectors, including contact details to engage in off-market acquisition conversations.
Reduced research time by 50%, freeing resources for higher-value strategic activity.

Why RSK chose
Beauhurst:

Identifying and qualifying targets

RSK’s M&A function uses Beauhurst to identify potential acquisitions that meet its specific criteria, such as value proposition, scale, sector, and geographical presence.

Monitoring the market and competitor activities

The team now uses Beauhurst to track UK and German M&A activity, funding rounds, and new market entrants to maintain a competitive advantage.

Accelerated due diligence

To ensure only the strongest opportunities progress to engagement, the team uses Beauhurst to access ownership structures and financial performance, which are directly fed from regulatory systems (UK Companies House).

The challenge

Acquisitions have been central to RSK’s growth journey, enabling it to diversify services, expand into new sectors, and strengthen its presence in key geographies.

We spoke to Joshua Burdass and Ryan Lingard, M&A Assistant Managers at RSK, who explained that investment in a tool to add value to the market screening process, particularly in terms of speed, precision, and accurate insights, was required to identify the right opportunities and support market mapping activities.

“We recognised the need for a platform that could provide accurate, timely, and comprehensive data to accelerate our M&A pipeline and underpin informed decision-making. Traditional approaches, reliant on fragmented sources and manual research, made the process much slower than it should have been.”

Consolidation of fragmented sectors, particularly in the lower mid-market, is becoming increasingly common, with PE-backed platforms following the success of RSK and others in this area. In-house or external advisors focused on buy-side M&A are now recognising the value of fast, accurate and configurable data that a platform such as Beauhurst delivers.

The solution

“Beauhurst stood out as a trusted, data-rich solution, capable of consolidating market intelligence, competitor activity, and growth indicators in one place amongst our multiple service lines and sectors.”

By adding Beauhurst to its suite of M&A technology solutions, RSK can now efficiently and accurately identify and qualify acquisition targets in the UK and German markets.

The team is also utilising contact information for key decision-makers within target businesses to start acquisition conversations. In addition, accessing information in clear formats directly saves time during the initial due diligence phase. “It can basically eliminate weeks of researching, market mapping and outreach to qualified targets, before finding out it’s not the right fit for RSK,” Joshua Burdass told us.

And it doesn’t stop there. Beauhurst is also supporting RSK’s competitor monitoring. The team is using the platform to receive automated reporting and notifications on competitors’ M&A activity to support competitor analysis and general insights into market momentum, which, in turn, support sector alignment and strategic planning.

The results

Beauhurst has enhanced RSK’s ability to map, track, and engage with acquisition targets across the UK and Germany — two competitive and opportunity-rich markets.

“Beauhurst is proving indispensable to delivering on our ambitious M&A agenda in the UK and Germany, enabling us to be engaged with shareholders earlier and accelerating our M&A pipeline.”

The platform’s centralised intelligence has allowed the team to quickly pinpoint businesses that align with their specific criteria, cultural values, strategic objectives, and sector priorities.

By integrating news, financials, and growth metrics into a single, user-friendly environment, Beauhurst has replaced fragmented research processes with a streamlined, evidence-led approach. This efficiency supports RSK’s guiding principles of continuous improvement, strategic investment, and sustainable growth.

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