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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.