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  • Sell Side Advisory

    4 December, 2025

    Corporate services: news roundup

    JTC agrees to Permira acquisition London-listed trust and corporate services provider JTC has agreed to be acquired by private equity…

  • Buy Side Advisory

    4 December, 2025

    Time for professional services to pick up the AI pace

    AI: a door to a new world of efficient and value-added professional services, or dark room of empty promises? The…

  • Lauren molloy

    2 December, 2025

    In profile: Lauren Molloy

    We speak with our PA Lauren Molloy about her role, and how she enjoys supporting the completion of deals. What…

  • Navigating A Career

    13 November, 2025

    Navigating a career in a PE-backed consolidator

    PE-backed consolidators have disrupted the accountancy market… so what does that mean for people looking to build a career in…

  • Julia whistler oct 2025

    21 October, 2025

    In profile: Julia Whistler

    We catch up with Julia Whistler to discuss her background, and thoughts on an attitudinal shift in the running of…

  • Trend Setting Accountancy

    16 September, 2025

    Trend-setting accountancy clears path for other professional service sectors

    Where accountancy and law have experienced considerable consolidation, which professional services sector will be the next target for PE firms?…

  • Finding A Model That Fits You And Your Practice

    29 August, 2025

    Finding a model that fits you and your practice

    The publishing of an article with John Hannah of SBP Accountants and Business Advisors in the Scottish Financial News has…

  • Money Talks

    10 June, 2025

    Money talks – professional services firms must listen and act

    Private equity’s forays into accountancy and legal markets are well documented, and several years in the making. As such, these…

  • Acca april 2025

    16 April, 2025

    It’s about being ‘deal-ready’

    With the market for Asian accountancy practices hotting up, our Singapore MD Tim Underwood spoke to the ACCA’s AB magazine…

  • Ambitions Drive Corporate Services

    24 February, 2025

    Clients’ ambitions drive corporate services M&A

    The phenomenon of M&A in professional services: whether corporate services, law or accounting, might appear to directly correlate with private…

  • From Bristol To Blackpool And Beyond… Deals Of Varying Shapes And Sizes Being Agreed

    19 July, 2024

    From Bristol to Blackpool and beyond… deals of varying shapes and sizes being agreed

    While private equity is underpinning the growth ambitions of many mid-sized practices, other types of deals are still making a…

  • Recruitment Market Offers

    19 July, 2024

    Managing partner forum march 2024: Mixed recruitment market offers more questions than answers

    Our latest forum finds ‘pockets’ of both optimism and challenge for accounting practices looking to navigate the recruitment market. Can…

  • Key Issue

    19 July, 2024

    Private equity: Sale of big four firm highlights key issues

    Sales of firms to private equity aren’t necessarily smoother in bigger firms, as Grant Thornton’s US sale to New Mountain…

  • Video For Business

    6 March, 2024

    Videos to help accountancy leaders build and grow a WM/FS arm

    Senior consultant Stephen Tucker provides practical advice and tips for accounting firms to build and grow a wealth advisory arm, across three short videos.

  • Upskill+your+practice

    6 March, 2024

    Acca article: upskilling your accountancy practice

    Julia Whistler discusses the options available to build skills within your practice, in an article for the ACCA.

  • Accountingweb+june+2021

    6 March, 2024

    Accountingweb article: The stumbling blocks to a practice sale

    In an article for AccountingWeb, Phil Shohet discusses the pitfalls many small practices face when looking to merge or sell.

  • Practice Management Clinic

    6 March, 2024

    Practice management clinic: A tale of underperforming partners

    Our latest case study-focused article is a ‘tale of undeperforming partners’. Most practices have partners that underperform, but what is being done about this?

  • Acca+august+2021+article

    6 March, 2024

    Acca article: Traversing practice M&A and covid

    Covid has thrown new issues into the mix of a practice merger or acquisition. Namely around people, their working conditions and their mental wellbeing.