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Business Services Team
Woodbridge's dealmakers have completed transactions for a broad range of business service companies. Some of the clients represented include staffing firms to web design firms, printing companies, market research firms and facilities management companies.
The Woodbridge Business Services Team is headed by Robert Murphy, a leading expert in the sale and purchase of business service companies.
Robert F. Murphy
Woodbridge COO and Business Services Group Director
Bob has over 20 years of experience managing and closing tansactions involving business services companies. He is a master negotiator and has completed the sale of a wide range of business service companies. Bob successfully closed deals for IT and engineering staffing firms, various types of outsourcing firms, telecommunications companies, software development companies and systems integrators. Bob was instrumental in completing all of Woodbridge's business services transactions over the past six years, which included the sale of Foresight International, Economic Modeling Specialists, RCR & Associates and Integrated Marketing Solutions. Bob is a graduate of SUNY Albany and is a CPA. He also serves as a director of MSRC Co., a leading mass storage solutions business. |
In 2011, 1,680 M&A transactions were closed worldwide in the Business Services industry, according to CapitalIQ, a leading investment banking database.
The U.S. business services sector consists of about 390,000 establishments with aggregate annual sales of about $570 billion. Major companies include staffing services providers and other outsourced administrative or business process service companies. The sector is highly fragmented, with the 50 largest companies accounting for less than 25% of total revenues.
The output of the U.S. business services industry is forecast to grow at an annual compounded rate of 4% through 2015.
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