The Quinn Partnership has advised Inflexion Private Equity on Management Due Diligence and provided advisory services for its minority investment in CMS Payments Intelligence (“CMSPI”), the leading independent global payments consultancy. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s dedicated minority investment fund, Partnership Capital II.

Founded over 25 years ago, CMSPI is a global payments consultancy, which provides data, technology and industry expertise to support merchants to navigate the ever-changing and complex payments industry. CMSPI enables merchants to optimise their payments supply chain through driving additional revenue and reducing bottom line costs whilst providing strategic, data-driven insights. With offices in North America, Europe, and Singapore, clients include many of the largest merchants globally.

Brendan Doyle, Founder & CEO, CMSPI: “This partnership will give CMSPI the opportunity to further invest in the business and its people to enhance its technology and data capabilities. Our mutual goal is to super-charge CMSPI’s international growth, and our ability to campaign for positive change for merchants within retail payments. I am greatly looking forward to working with Inflexion as we expand our business across the globe and build out our customer offering further.”

Simon Turner, Managing Partner, Inflexion: “CMSPI is a purpose-driven and truly customer-centric business with an impressive offering. Its success is supported by its clever use of data and technology, all underpinned by a highly ambitious team. We are delighted to be partnering with them as they look to build the technology further and grow their service offering globally.”

Paul Quinn, Director, The Quinn Partnership: “Brendan and his team have built a consultancy and a business with rigour, ability, ambition, commitment and have great future potential. These qualities have given the business a strong foundation for its success as it has grown and expanded its operations globally. There is a range of operational and commercial capability across the team, with an energy and dynamism matched by an ambition to develop further. The team will work well with Inflexion who have seen these qualities create real value and the team will now benefit from their expertise and experience in developing technological capability and driving global growth.”

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