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 on the Wirral
Wirral practices are built on a kind of loyalty you only get on a peninsula: clients who would no more change accountant than change football team. We buy practices directly and keep that loyalty intact, with the buyer just across the water rather than at the end of a broker's mailing list.
From Birkenhead and Wallasey round to Heswall, West Kirby and Bromborough, the Wirral runs on long relationships. Practices here often serve two or three generations of the same family businesses, and the owner's name above the door is half the value of the firm. National brokers see "a North West block of fees"; we see exactly the kind of practice our group was built to protect.
We are the closest thing the peninsula has to a local buyer. SMB Accountancy Group runs four Merseyside practices, and Liverpool's waterfront is visible from half the Wirral's high streets. When a firm joins us, its identity stays put: same name, same office, same faces, with the group quietly carrying payroll support, technology, compliance and cover behind the scenes.
There is no broker in this process and no commission priced into it. Your enquiry goes to the group's directors, stays with them, and gets a personal reply within two working days. If we are not the right home for your practice, we will say so plainly and wish you well; if we are, you will know who you are dealing with from the very first conversation.
Whether retirement is on the horizon or you simply want backing to grow without losing what makes your firm yours, we would like to hear from you.
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
Will my clients still be looked after locally?
Yes. The whole point of our model is that your practice keeps trading under its own name, from its own office, with the team your clients already know. We are twenty minutes away through the tunnel, not a head office three regions south, and the group's other firms are close enough to provide cover when it is needed.
What happens to my staff when I sell?
They keep their jobs, and in our experience they gain: group backing for training, technology and workload cover that a standalone practice cannot provide. We buy practices because of the people in them, and we support the existing team without overpowering the culture that makes clients like the firm.
Is my practice too small to interest you?
Probably not. We talk to sole practitioners as readily as multi-partner firms. A modest fee base built on solid relationships in Heswall or Wallasey is exactly the kind of practice this group exists to look after, so tell us about it before deciding for us.
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Register your interest
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 Southport St Helens Warrington Chester Preston East Lancashire South Cheshire