A buy-and-build platform acquiring and modernising the firms that underpin the UK economy — accountancy, legal, and financial services practices with strong recurring revenue and founders planning their next chapter.
For professional, high-net-worth & sophisticated investors only · Not open to retail investors
Accountancy practices, legal firms, IFA businesses and compliance consultancies underpin the UK economy. They're profitable, trusted, and essential. But many are stuck: founders are ageing out, technology is moving faster than they can adapt, talent is hard to keep, and succession planning is a headache.
With thousands of professional services founders due to retire in the next ten years, there is a generational supply of high-quality firms seeking succession — and very few buyers offering a founder-friendly route.
That's where the Practice Group Fund comes in. And it's already moving: through the Buzz buy-and-build project, our operating team has completed four practice acquisitions in 2026 — real deals and real integrations, not a thesis on a slide.
Private capital has arrived in UK professional services at scale: Grant Thornton with Cinven, Evelyn Partners' £700m professional services sale to Apax, Azets, Cooper Parry, and Xeinadin's 122-firm platform. More than a quarter of the UK's top-60 accountancy firms have already taken private equity investment — and the talk now is of consolidators acquiring consolidators.
Below that contested top end sits the long tail: thousands of independent firms with £500k–£5m of recurring fees — too small for institutional consolidators, too valuable to let retire quietly. That is where the Practice Group Fund operates: disciplined entry at 1.3–1.6x GRF, succession-led deal flow, and platform economics as firms combine.
Sources: industry surveys and reported transactions, 2024–2025 (ICAEW; Farrer & Co; Financial Times-reported deal values).
We look for firms that are:
Usually £500k–£5m in gross recurring fees — compliance-led income that repeats year after year.
Firms delivering excellent client work but struggling with scale, technology, or growth — where platform infrastructure unlocks value.
Led by founders who want to step back, sell out gradually, or accelerate expansion — based across the UK, not just London. We have active interest in the Midlands, the North, and Northern Ireland.
Unlike slash-and-burn PE firms, we don't strip assets. We invest, we support, and we integrate — building a better business from the inside out.
We upgrade tech stacks — Xero, Apron, Clio, FYI and more — and bring modern digital infrastructure to firms that have outgrown their systems.
We consolidate back-office functions across the group — finance, technology, marketing, operations, HR — so fee-earners spend their time serving clients.
Client service stays local while teams gain central support, shared systems, leadership development and succession stability. We grow value long-term — not by flipping, but by building.
In short: real businesses with real clients, real revenue, and real momentum. Meet the people behind the platform
Participation is available only to professional investors, certified high-net-worth individuals and self-certified sophisticated investors (FSMA 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005), family offices, and institutional partners. It is not open to retail investors. This page is information, not an offer. Capital is at risk and returns are not guaranteed.
If you founded an accountancy, legal, IFA or compliance firm, the Practice Group offers a founder-friendly route to succession or growth:
Most importantly: we respect what you've built. And we help it live on — bigger, stronger, and future-ready.
Founder Capital's private equity strategy focused on acquiring and growing UK-based professional services firms — accountancy practices, legal firms, IFA businesses, and compliance consultancies — within a unified buy-and-build platform.
Acquiring several strong businesses in the same sector and bringing them together on shared infrastructure — modern technology, consolidated back office, central support — so the combined platform is worth more, and operates better, than the individual firms alone.
Recurring, compliance-led revenue. Low volatility. Essential services that get bought in good years and bad. And a generational succession wave creating a supply of high-quality firms with motivated sellers.
Certified high-net-worth individuals and self-certified sophisticated investors as defined under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, plus family offices and institutional partners. Founder Capital LLP is not authorised or regulated by the FCA; nothing on this website is an offer to the general public.
Yes — see For Firm Owners above, or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
Important information. Founder Capital LLP is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. This page is provided for general information only. It is not, and should not be read as, an offer, invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity, nor as investment, financial, legal or tax advice. Any participation in investment opportunities is limited to persons to whom such opportunities may lawfully be promoted under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 — including professional investors, certified high-net-worth individuals and self-certified sophisticated investors — and will only proceed where a relevant exemption applies. These opportunities are not open to retail investors. Capital is at risk and returns are not guaranteed.
