Business Sales

Selling your Financial Services Firm

One team of solicitors and accountants, acting only for sellers of regulated firms.

Advisers who act only for sellers

Selling the firm you have built is a decision you make once, and it deserves a team whose only interest is your outcome. We act for sellers and never for buyers, so there is never a question about whose side we are on.

As solicitors and accountants working almost entirely in the regulated sector, we guide you through every part of a sale — valuation, preparation, structure, tax and the legal process — all in one team. Nothing is outsourced and nothing is handed between firms.

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Start with a free Triage assessment

Before you commit to anything, we take an honest look at where your firm stands: regulatory position, tax, compliance and valuation; and tell you plainly what a sale would involve. It costs nothing.

It is broadly the same assessment a buyer’s advisers will make when they look at you. Knowing what they will find, before they find it, is what keeps a sale on track and the price intact.

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How we help you sell

Wherever you are, whether years from an exit or ready to go to market, there is a sensible next step.

Valuing your business

A grounded, honest view of what your firm is worth today, and what would move that figure before you sell.

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Preparing for sale

Getting your firm ready — clean financials, contracts and compliance — so the price holds up when a buyer looks closely.

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The selling process

How a sale actually runs, from the first conversation through to completion, with us beside you at each stage.

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Selling to a consolidator

What to watch when the buyer is a professional acquirer with its own lawyers and its own agenda.

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Support for retiring IFAs

A route to exit that protects your clients, your team and the legacy you have spent a career building.

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Why sellers choose us

One team, in one place

Legal, tax and commercial expertise sit together in a single team, so your sale is never handed between firms.

On your side, only

We act solely for sellers and hold no relationships with buyers, so nothing about our advice is compromised.

A free place to start

Our Triage assessment costs nothing and tells you honestly where you stand before you commit to anything.

Decades in the regulated sector

We have advised regulated financial services firms for more than twenty years, and we know how these deals really work.

Deals we have completed

A sense of the firms we have sold, the buyers involved and the shape of the deals.

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What our clients say

In their words — advisers who have been through a sale with us.

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The team who would run your sale

Solicitors, a chartered accountant and commercial specialists who have advised regulated firms for over twenty years. The people you meet at the start are the people who complete your sale.

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Thinking about selling your firm?

Start with a free, confidential Triage assessment — an honest read of where you stand, with no obligation.

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