Aurelius Group to buy TM Group from Dye & Durham

TM Group is a UK-based provider of property search aggregation services.

  • TM Group generated revenues of £62m in 2022
  • Dye & Durham is a provider of cloud-based legal practice management software
  • Aurelius is a pan-European alternative investment firm 

Aurelius to acquire TM Group, a UK-based provider of property search aggregation services, from Dye & Durham in a transaction valued at up to £91 million (€106.9 million; $117.41 million).

TM Group is based in Swindon. The company generated revenues of £62 million in 2022.

“TM Group’s services are essential to the UK conveyancing process, providing the business with a good level of demand within a market with high barriers to entry,” said Tristan Nagler, partner at Aurelius. “This corporate carve-out transaction from Dye & Durham is further evidence of our deliverability in a challenging M&A market.”

Dye & Durham will receive around £50 million in cash at closing, with up to £41 million in potential additional earn-out payments between 2023 and 2026, for total consideration of up to £91 million, subject to certain adjustments.

Dye & Durham plans to use the net proceeds it receives at closing to reduce its debt, according to a release.

The transaction is expected to be completed in August.

Dye & Durham is a provider of cloud-based legal practice management software. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Aurelius is a pan-European alternative investment firm based in Grunwald, Germany.

Aurelius was advised on the transaction by Rothschild (corporate finance), Travers Smith (legal), CIL (commercial) and KPMG (financial).