PARETO FM Acquired By NVM

PARETO FM Acquired By NVM NVM, the Private Equity company, has completed an £18m management buy-out of Oxfordshire-based facilities management business, Pareto FM.

Funds from the MBO deal will be used to buy out two founder shareholders whilst also investing in technology to support the firm’s continued growth under the leadership of Andrew Hulbert. David Rolfe and Peter Hodson who led the investment for NVM will be joining the board to support Andrew.



Pareto FM has built a strong reputation in the industry as a ‘people business’, upgrading the traditional delivery of facilities management (FM) services with a focus on customer service, diversity and staff engagement. The team has focused its business model on the delivery of more specialised engineering services and provides broader FM solutions in a blend of operated and outsourced models.

Andrew Hulbert, MD, has said that they are thrilled with this deal which is the next major step for Pareto as an ambitious, driven and disruptive facilities service provider and this deal will enable us to further support our client base whilst creating significant opportunities for growth within our team members. The investment will also enable Pareto to maintain its ‘growth story’.

Andrew believes Pareto have built the foundations of a great business model that can now be taken to a much wider platform and is as excited as ever to lead the organisation into this new era. They have a mission to continue to change the face of facilities management and demonstrate why innovative, progressive ,social value lead organisations like Pareto are critical to UK market.

David Rolfe, investment partner at NVM has said that Pareto is unique in the market, it is a dynamic and energetic FM business with a highly engaged and differentiated workforce which is completely disrupting the traditional FM sector. Both David and Peter Hodson are looking forward to supporting Andrew and his team as he continues to lead the business through the next phase of growth. They believe this is yet another example of a high quality, founder led, regional business that has exactly the kind of dynamics into which NVM seeks to invest.