Strategic Growth: Team Moves and M&A

Find the Capability Behind Your Next Stage of Growth

Retained team recruitment and acquisition target research across commodity trading, brokerage and financial markets.

Your next stage of growth may depend on capability that already exists elsewhere: an established trading team, a specialist brokerage desk or a business with the people, infrastructure and market presence you need.

Imperium helps you identify where that capability sits and establish whether a confidential conversation is possible. We research relevant teams and businesses, agree priorities and approach selected individuals, leaders or owners.

You do not need to settle on a team move or acquisition before the research begins. An agreed brief can explore both, giving you a clearer basis for deciding which opportunities warrant attention.

Two Routes to Established Capability

Explore the people, the business or both within an agreed growth brief.

The right route depends on where the value sits. A team move may provide the leadership and specialist expertise you need. An acquisition may warrant investigation where the wider business and operating platform are central to your objective.

01 / People & expertise

Team Moves

Recruit an established trading desk, brokerage team or selected group into your business, with the proposed roles and receiving platform assessed together.

Leadership · Complementary skills · Working relationships

Explore Team Moves

02 / The wider business

Mergers & Acquisitions

Identify relevant acquisition targets and explore owner interest where your objective involves the business, its people and its wider operating capability.

People · Operating platform · Market presence

Explore M&A Search
One agreed brief can explore both.

A brokerage growth search, for example, could investigate a team move alongside the acquisition of an introducing broker. The research helps establish which route warrants a conversation.

One Growth Objective. A Search Across Both Routes

Specialist market research and confidential approaches, shaped around what you want to build.

We begin with the capability you want to add: product expertise, commercial leadership, geographic coverage or an established operating platform. That gives the research a clear purpose before individual teams or businesses are approached.

Within an agreed retained brief, we can investigate both team recruitment and acquisition opportunities. We identify relevant targets, explore initial interest discreetly and help you decide which conversations warrant progressing.

The next stage of your business may already exist. The first move is finding it.

What Are You Looking to Build?

Tell us what you’re looking to build, acquire or strengthen and we’ll help identify the right opportunity.