Another UK consultant now owned by a US firm but Mace’s decision to sell up makes sense

By Dave Rogers2025-07-23T11:00:00

To scale up, it needed outside investment and there was only one place it was coming from, writes Dave Rogers

Mace set up its consulting business, which is now set to be majority owned by Goldman Sachs, in 2004 at a time when it was best known for its construction management abilities.

It was initially known as Sense, changing its name to Mace six years later, with Steve Mason, one of several people who helped set it up, taking over at the start of 2017 after former Gardiner & Theobald partner Chris Goldthorpe, who had been in charge for 13 years, retired.

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