Harvard Protection Services
The Firm
Harvard Protection Services launched in 1996, works from 59 Maiden Lane in New York, and reports more than ten thousand employees operating in 48 states and the District of Columbia. It sells enterprise protection and corporate security services, which in practice means officers under contract at customer sites.
Its published acquisition is the archetype of the trade's supply: Motivated Security Services, a second-generation privately held security services organization founded in 1969, acquired effective November 2023 and announced that January. Family firms of that vintage are the population a searcher is bidding for, and they are also what the strategics buy.
It publishes sparingly. One acquisition sits in its news category and its resources page holds three items, none of them deals, so the record here is thin by the firm's own choice rather than by a wall. That is worth remembering when a trade looks quiet: quiet buyers and absent buyers look identical from outside.
What It Buys
New York, New York. A New York guard firm with more than ten thousand officers across forty-eight states that buys second-generation family guarding companies and folds them into its own book.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
1 deal traced to announcements by Harvard Protection Services, 2024, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 31 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is August 6, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- Motivated Security Services · January 7, 2024
A second-generation privately held security services organization founded in 1969.