Mark Williams

Managing Director, Europe
Technology

Mark has 15 years of M&A experience and has spent the majority of his career in the Technology and Media sectors. Mark joined CG Results in 2012 from Ingenious Corporate Finance and prior to that KPMG Corporate Finance.

Mark has spent his entire career advising high growth and disruptive companies on mergers and acquisitions, fund-raisings and strategic options and is passionate about helping the leading minds in advertising, technology and media generate value for their years of hard work.

Mark also has extensive experience advising large global corporates make exciting and pivotal acquisitions in the European market and is highly experienced in leading cross-border transactions both east and west of the UK.

Mark has a degree in Psychology from the University of Leeds and speaks French. Outside work he enjoys cooking and experiencing as much of the world as possible.

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Latest Insights

Corporate News
3rd August 2022

We are joining forces with Canaccord Genuity

We are very excited to share that we have agreed to join forces with Canaccord Genuity – a leading full-service investment bank serving growth companies in the middle market.  This is an important milestone in our journey and we wanted to update you on why we’ve taken this decision and what it means for you. […]

Reports
19th July 2022

The Global Technology Market Review – Q2 2022

Private deal activity and valuations within the global technology market remain high in spite of macroeconomic uncertainty. M&A continues to be driven by further adoption of cloud and next-gen technologies, increased focus on strategic tuck-ins, and launching in new markets. As geopolitical uncertainty continues to impact public markets, the outlook for the second half of […]

Reports
4th May 2022

The Global Technology Market Review – Q1 2022

Despite a backdrop of some macroeconomic uncertainty, private M&A activity within the global technology market saw a record quarter for deal volumes. This was delivered on the back of continued adoption of cloud technologies, increased focus on strategic tuck-ins, investment into hybrid work environments and software vendors seeking to deepen their security posture. As public […]

Reports
1st February 2022

The Technology Services Perspective – FY 2021

Deal activity for 2021 has been strong – the acceleration of end-to-end digital transformation through the pandemic continued to drive M&A agendas. Premium valuations were commanded by businesses with high day rates for highly skilled resources with scarce availability, such as data science and cybersecurity. Public market indices grew in line with the NASDAQ and […]

Reports
1st February 2022

The Global Technology Market Review – FY 2021

Deal activity for 2021 has been strong – the acceleration of digital transformation at the onset of Covid-19 pandemic to drive enterprise protection, solve global supply chain challenges and strengthen multi-cloud capabilities drove investors to pay premium multiples for both innovative startups and dominant incumbents. Public markets were increasingly active too as 2021 marked the […]

Reports
19th October 2021

The Technology Services Perspective – Q3 2021

Deal activity this quarter continues to be driven by strong confidence in acquiring capability in next-gen, modernisation and cloud-first tech stacks, and premium services. Equally, capturing the end-to-end digital transformation value chain continues to be a key M&A theme to become the strategic operator and engineering partner of choice for large-scale budgets. Public tech companies […]

Reports
19th October 2021

The Global Technology Market Review – Q3 2021

Deal activity has continued to increase following a strong Q2 and the path to recovery from the global pandemic is increasingly clear on account of re-opening economies, record-breaking stock markets and an abundant supply of cheap capital fueling investor appetite. The technology market remains very strong for M&A and public trading, and optimism for future […]

Reports
19th July 2021

The Global Technology Market Review – Q2 2021

As we predicted in Q1, deal activity has continued to increase in Q2 and the technology market remains very strong for M&A and public trading and optimism for future growth remains very healthy across all the technology sectors we track. M&A continues to be driven by strong levels of investment by private equity (directly and […]

Reports
23rd April 2021

The Global Technology Market Review – Q1 2021

Deal valuations have continued to drive upwards as the technology market remains very strong for M&A and public trading and optimism for future growth remains very healthy across all the tech sectors we track. M&A continues to be driven by strong levels of investment by private equity (directly and through portfolio companies) and large strategic […]