Your clients keep their accountant
No rebrand, no call centre, no "your account has moved". The firms we buy keep trading under their own name with the team clients already know.
Practice acquisitions
Sell Your Accountancy Practice in South Cheshire
South Cheshire's practices carry unusually mixed client lists: rail and logistics around Crewe, dairy and farming out towards Nantwich, and market-town firms everywhere between. We buy practices like these directly, hand clients over carefully, and keep the firm recognisably itself.
South Cheshire is two economies wearing one postcode. Crewe brings rail, logistics, engineering and volume employers; Nantwich, Sandbach, Middlewich and Congleton bring farms, food businesses and market-town firms that have banked with the same families for decades. The practices serving this patch are correspondingly varied, and their owners tend to have built exactly what a good buyer wants: recurring fees, loyal clients and a trusted local name.
Our offer to those owners is continuity with backing. SMB Accountancy Group runs four North West practices, every one still trading under its own name with its own team, from AAT licensed to ICAEW chartered leadership. The group carries the back-office weight, including technology, compliance support and cover, while the firm your clients chose keeps being the firm your clients chose.
Dealing with us is refreshingly short of ceremony. No broker, so no commission or engagement fee. No listing, so no months of anonymised marketing around a county where business news travels at auction-mart speed. One direct, confidential conversation with the group's directors, then, if we both want to continue, clear terms your own advisers can test and a handover planned around your clients' calendar.
From Crewe and Nantwich across to Sandbach, Middlewich, Winsford and Congleton, if succession is on your mind or you want group backing behind your own name, we would like to hear about your practice below.
Why sell to us
A direct buyer, not a broker
Your staff keep their jobs
We buy practices because of the people in them. We support the existing team without overpowering the culture and values that make clients like the firm.
No broker, no commission
We are the buyer, not a middleman. Deal with us directly and there is no listing process, no sale fee and no percentage taken off your price.
Discretion, guaranteed
Nothing reaches your staff, clients or the local grapevine until you decide it should. Early conversations are just that: conversations.
Common questions
Questions sellers ask us
How and when are my clients told about the sale?
Together, and late. Nothing is announced while we talk, nothing while terms are agreed, and nothing during diligence. When completion is certain, we plan the announcement with you: a joint letter in your voice, personal calls to the clients who deserve them, and introductions made by you at your pace. Clients hear it from their accountant, not from gossip.
Will you quietly rebrand the firm a few years down the line?
It would defeat the point of buying it. Every firm in the group still trades under its own name, including our founding practice, and the joining dates are published on this site for anyone to check. The local name is the asset; group branding lives on this website, not over your door.
Some of my clients are farms and seasonal businesses. Is that an issue?
No. Mixed and seasonal client bases are normal in South Cheshire and simply shape how a handover is planned: we time the transition around your busiest cycles rather than an arbitrary completion date, so harvest, year ends and January all land safely.
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A few details are enough to start; share only what you're comfortable with. We reply personally within two working days, in complete confidence.
Who reads this?
Your enquiry goes directly to the group's directors and nobody else. It is never passed to member firm staff or discussed outside that circle.
Prefer to talk?
Call 0151 709 9524 and ask for Chris, or write to hello@stuartmcbain.com and mark it confidential. Both reach the same small circle.
Selling elsewhere?
We also buy practices in: the North West Liverpool Manchester the Wirral Southport St Helens Warrington Chester Preston East Lancashire