Baker Tilly merges with Slater Maidment
Leading mid-tier firm of accountants Baker Tilly have today announced the merger with Slater Maidment, a London based specialist accountancy practice based in St. James’s Square.
The Slater Maidment Partners and employees will operate as a third Baker Tilly office in London and will focus on the private client and smaller to medium-sized OMB market.
Announcing the merger, Baker Tilly Regional Managing Partner, Jon Randall, said: “The merger with Slater Maidment demonstrates our strategic commitment to entrepreneurial businesses of all sizes and will complement our existing specialist offering to the larger OMB, listed company, transaction & specialist advisory areas”.
Office Managing Partner and former Slater Maidment Managing Partner, Jim Blake, said: “Our ethos of developing close relationships with clients is perfectly in tune with Baker Tilly’s and I’m confident existing clients with both firms will benefit from the synergies created by this merger especially in tax and business advisory services”.
The merger will be effective from the 29th October and the third London office will bring the number of offices in the Baker Tilly UK network to 28 covering 26 geographic locations.
Baker Tilly is the trading name of a number of separate legal entities which together form a GBP200m, top 10 business of accountancy, tax and business advisers to entrepreneurial businesses.
Key professional services: audit and advisory, business recovery, corporate finance (AIM and PLUS specialists), e-commerce, forensic accounting, litigation support, tax and tax investigations, VAT.
Sector expertise: agriculture, charities and education, media, pensions, professional practices, automotive, public sector, property and social housing.
Baker Tilly has over 2,000 members of staff and over 270 partners with offices in 26 UK locations.
Baker Tilly International is the 8th largest network in the world by combined fee income of its independent members. It is represented by 126 firms in 93 countries, with a global fee income of US$2.3bn and over 21,900 staff worldwide.