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Cogent Growth Partners is a buy side merger & acquisition advisory firm that specializes in helping IT services companies in the MSP, CSP and Hosted Services sectors, grow their business more effectively. We combine industry specific M&A know-how with focused operations and integration consulting expertise to deliver improved financial performance and exceptional equity value for all the stakeholders. This is accomplished while mitigating the risks often associated with planning and executing acquisition and liquidity strategies.

Current Assignments:


Atlanta, Georgia

This MSP/Cloud/HaaS focused client is based in Northern Atlanta, GA and has been serving Atlanta’s “Golden Triangle” area for over 10 years.

 

Chicago, Illinois (Cook)

This MSP/Cloud focused client is based in Cook County and has served the greater Chicago-land area for nearly 15 years.

 

Chicago, Illinois (DuPage)

This broad based IT Services MSP is based in DuPage County and has served the greater Chicago-land area for over 20 years.

 

South East Michigan

This rapidly growing MSP client is based in Ann Arbor and has served the Southeast Michigan area for the last 5 years.

 

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

This MSP focused client is based in North Central Minneapolis-St Paul and has served the metropolitan Twin Cities area for over 10 years.

 

Dallas, Texas

This MSP centric client is based in North Dallas and has been serving the greater Dallas – Ft Worth Metroplex for nearly 25 years.

 

Los Angeles, CA (N. Hollywood)

This MSP client is based in the North Hollywood area and has served the greater Los Angeles market for over 10 years.

 

Los Angeles, California Region

This forward looking MSP client is based in the Inland Empire area of Southern California, with additional locations in Los Angeles and Orange counties, and has been serving the area for over 20 years.

 

Houston, Austin and Dallas,Texas

This MSP focused client is based in Houston and has been serving the region for nearly 30 years.

 

Cedar Rapids & Des Moines, Iowa

This broad thinking MSP client is located in the Cedar Rapids area and has been serving the region for more than 25 years.

 

Seattle, Washington

This well respected managed services provider is located in Seattle and has been serving this area for almost 10 years.

 

Regional Investment in United States & Canada

This IT services-focused investment client is a regional entity servicing the United States and Canada for over 10 years.

 

North American Investment

This capital investment client focuses on recurring revenue oriented businesses. It has been investing in the United States and Canada for over 20 years.

 

Eastern North Carolina & Virginia

This MSP-focused client is based in Northeastern North Carolina and is a leading provider of IT support services and solutions to small and medium sized businesses in Eastern North Carolina.

 

Moline, IL

This MSP-focused client is based in Moline, IL and is a leading provider of Managed Services and IT solutions to small and medium sized businesses in the Quad Cities Area for over 15 years.

 

Regional US, UK & Far East

This rapidly growing IT management and support firm has specialized in servicing the financial industry for the last 3 years. 

 

Chicagoland

This cloud based IT services company is a pioneer in bringing a cloud based IT environment to small and midsize organizations.

 

Des Moines, IA, Omaha, NE, Kansas City, MO

This Urbandale, IA company offers a full service approach to their customers IT, Telephony and Internet needs. It has been serving central Iowa for 10 years.

 

Strategic Acquisition:


Organic growth takes time

We are dedicated to helping IT business owners discover and consummate aggregation opportunities with well matched candidate companies, while supporting the evolution of intrinsic growth strategies, in order to significantly increase net cash generation and the enterprise value of their combined companies faster and more effectively than via organic growth alone.

Strategic acquisition of a complimentary IT firm can deliver large-scale customer acquisition that far exceeds the normal capabilities of natural growth. It can also enable rapid expansion of the talent pool and service portfolio while stimulating operational refinement, among many other benefits.

Many organizations are intrigued by the possibilities of growth by combination but never pursue the strategy for fear of losing focus on their business, or they do so and have only limited success, or even a bad experience, because they often fail to uncover operational synergies, or pre-plan integration in advance of making the deal. In fact, acquisition activity can become all-consuming if you don’t have a purpose built, experienced team in place to make it successful.

Cogent Growth Partners’ mission is to execute strategic growth transactions while allowing our clients to stay focused on their core business. Cogent’s experts take the lead on all aspects of the acquisition and integration process. Our clients have the final say, but we do most if not all of the heavy lifting.

The Cogent team handles the bulk of the work, in cooperation with you and your team, which helps you focus on accomplishing current goals and objectives without compromising levels of service, efficiency or profitability; because you and your staff are free to run your business while we handle your corporate development.
 
 

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Rick Murphy and David S. Schafran of Cogent Growth Partners to Speak at IT Nation 2012

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Cogent Growth Partners Advises Arterian on its Merger with Seattle Computing

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Cogent Growth Partners Advises The Aldridge Company in the Acquisition of Serenity Systems

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Cogent Advises The Aldridge Company in the Acquisition of Serenity Systems

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George Sierchio has joined the Mergers and acquisitions advisory firm as a Partner.

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