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Services for growing businesses
It’s taken a long time to build the experience that helps our clients grow more quickly. We’ve been a trusted partner to ambitious businesses since 1881. We’re also the fastest growing top 10 UK accountancy firm. We know how to grow.
It begins by knowing your business. Our partners take time to understand clients’ operations, ambitions, constraints and complexities, so you don’t waste time on strategies or solutions that won’t work. Comprehensive, tailored business services combine industry expertise with an in-depth understanding of clients’ needs and objectives.
Growing with you
Business growth funding, acquisitions and expansion
As the business grows, we bring scale to support emerging requirements, drawing on offices nationwide and specialist support across finance, advisory, accounts, tax, and digital solutions. We’re also a founding member of leading accounting and advisory network CLA Global, with access to 15,000 personnel and 230 offices worldwide.
As far as you travel, we’ll never be remote. We build long-term relationships and deliver a personal service. A lead expert walks with clients as a consistent contact, serving the business’s needs and coordinating specialist support from across S&W’s teams.
However you grow, we can support you.
Organic business growth
Organic growth is essential to building a business’s long-term success. Achieving and maintaining sustainable increases in sales and revenue requires a clear strategy, effective execution and a scalable, robust infrastructure to keep compliant and support the bigger business.
We help companies across sectors increase their market share, boost their compound annual growth rates and reduce customer acquisition costs. Our advisory consulting team helps businesses develop effective strategies for growth, with corporate finance to help find funding, and tax, assurance and accounting support to build robust but flexible structures for increasing activity.
Business outsourcing services
Whether you’ve outgrown your in-house expertise or external providers, our business outsourcing services give you the freedom to move to your next phase. Specialist accounting, finance, payroll, compliance and company secretarial services can tackle critical constraints to unleash growth:
- Freeing staff to focus on the core business and opportunities
- Addressing skills gaps and inhouse capacity constraints
- Cutting costs and improving efficiencies
- Accelerating moves into new markets or product lines
Our expert, highly scalable and flexible services work with, replace, support or supplement in-house capabilities as required.
Mergers and acquisitions
Acquisitions can be a rapid route to achieving scale for successful businesses. The right deal can help quickly break into new markets, diversify product or service lines or build market share. But poorly planned and executed M&A can plague a business for years and frustrate the deal objectives.
S&W supports businesses with acquisition strategy, structure, valuation and negotiations. From developing acquisition criteria to due diligence and fundraising, we help strategic and financial buyers with acquisitions, management buyouts, joint ventures, and mergers: Finding the right opportunities, doing the deal and securing the acquisition’s objectives.
International expansion
We support business globally. Through CLA Global, S&W provides international coverage for overseas expansion, helping businesses navigate new territories to successfully set up, operate and confidently comply across jurisdictions worldwide.
Securing opportunities for growth, we support businesses with all aspects of their international expansion:
- Compliance to identify, meet and keep ahead of compliance obligations at home and abroad arising from overseas expansion
- Structuring to enable businesses to choose efficient vehicles for entering new markets, and ensure robust and efficient group structures
- Financing, including cash repatriations to ensure efficient cash flows and profit extraction
- Risk management to mitigate risks around tax residence and permanent establishments
