Squire Patton Boggs has acted for Andrew Preston on the Management Buyout (MBO) of HireGenics UK to form Clarity Outsourcing Group.
Clarity is a dynamic UK and European outsourcing company focused on helping businesses take control of their workforce, achieving better outcomes through smarter, compliant, and more sustainable staffing models, whether in a single location or operating across multiple countries. The company works across a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, public services, logistics, and professional industries, offering services such as neutral vendor MSP and bank workforce models, compliance audits, and supplier performance management. Andrew Preston continues as CEO of the newly named group.
The team advising Andrew Preston was led by Corporate partners Julian Ciecierski-Burns and Paul Mann.
“We are delighted to support Andrew, whom we have known as a highly experienced leader in managed services operations, in the MBO of Clarity, a transaction which will lead to a new phase of investment and growth,” commented Julian Ciecierski-Burns.
CEO Andrew Preston said, “Our company has been successfully delivering transparent, scalable, and people-centric workforce solutions across a wide range of sectors for some time. We will now be able to drive forward further strategic expansion, implementing future-ready outsourcing models that improve compliance, deliver more innovation, and align better with long-term client success. What a pleasure it was working again with the team at Squire Patton Boggs in delivering this transaction; their professional team immediately understood our business and its goals and provided trusted commercial and solutions-focused guidance at every stage.”