Practice Group buys UK accountancy practices directly. The conversations are confidential and led by the two founders, and we look after the clients and staff you built up.
If you are thinking about retirement, succession or stepping back, Practice Group buys UK accountancy practices directly. You deal with one buyer, in confidence, and you speak to the people who will run the practice after the sale. An accounting practice sale with us covers why selling direct matters, how the process works, what we buy, and how we protect the clients and staff you have spent years building.
Selling a practice involves your name, your people and years of client relationships as well as the price. Selling to a direct buyer affects four things:
You speak to the person who makes the decision, so answers come back quickly.
Your practice is discussed with one buyer only. Early conversations can be completely anonymous.
Fewer parties are involved, so there are fewer delays. No broker commission is taken from your proceeds.
The deal is shaped around your timeline and the handover you want.
There's a fuller comparison in our guide to accounting practice broker vs direct buyer.
Our process has five stages, and we tell you where things stand at each one.
We talk through your goals, timeline, client mix, team and what a good outcome looks like. Everything you tell us stays confidential.
A sensible range based on what you share, with the main factors that move it up or down. See how valuation works.
We review the essentials — recurring fees, client concentration, staffing, billing discipline and compliance basics. The review is kept in proportion to the size of the practice. See what to expect.
We agree price, structure, timeline and your involvement (exit now vs a phased step-down), plus how staff and clients are looked after. See heads of terms explained.
We complete the sale and hand over clients and staff in the way agreed in the heads of terms.
A deal usually combines cash on completion with deferred consideration, sometimes with an element linked to client retention. A clean break and a phased step-down carry different risks for the buyer. Staying on for a handover often supports a stronger overall figure because it makes client retention more likely. We recommend the structure that fits your goals. The detail is in our guides on earn-outs and deferred consideration and the tax when you sell.
Our valuation calculator gives an instant indicative figure from your recurring fees and a few quality factors. A confidential call gives you a proper range with the reasoning behind it. If you're not ready yet, we can map a short plan to increase your value first.
If you are unsure whether you are ready, the sale readiness scorecard takes two minutes. It scores your firm out of 100 on the six things a buyer examines, then tells you what to fix and roughly how long each thing takes. The full practice valuation calculator and the succession timeline planner sit alongside it on our tools page.
The checklist covers 25 things that affect what your practice is worth and how smoothly it sells. Work through them before you talk to any buyer.
Get the checklistAn indicative range from your recurring fees and a few quality factors.
Open the calculatorWe buy directly. You speak to the buyer, which keeps the process simpler, quieter and typically avoids broker fees.
Early conversations can be anonymous, and we only involve your staff or clients once a plan is agreed. We are the only buyer who hears about your practice.
UK limited companies and sole practitioners with strong recurring revenue suit us best, and we're flexible on size, location, software and service mix.
Not always. Some owners want a clean break; others step down over time to hand over relationships. We build the plan around you. A phased handover often supports a stronger overall figure.
Keeping the team is usually part of protecting clients and service, and the heads of terms set out how staff and clients will be treated.
A confidential call is still useful. We often map a short plan to raise the value of the practice, or start with back-office support, so you exit stronger when the time comes.
On the call we'll cover your timeline and ideal outcome, the key numbers, an indicative valuation range, and the best route — sell now, step down, or prepare for a higher-value exit. Everything discussed stays confidential.
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Andy Jackson, co-founderWe buy accountancy practices right across the UK. See the local page for your area: