| Baker Tilly merges with Slater Maidment |
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| Friday, 26 October 2007 | |
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Mid-tier accountants Baker Tilly have 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 and 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 £200m, top 10 business of accountancy, tax and business advisers to entrepreneurial businesses. 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. Slater Maidment is a 6 partner, 35 employee practice of Chartered Accountants in St James’s Square, London, providing a full range of business advice, accounting and tax services. The firm's clients cover a wide range of business sectors and structures and range from SMEs to larger groups. The firm was founded in 1906 as Slater & Co and adopted the name of Slater, Chapman & Cooke shortly before the Second World War. Throughout its history the firm has operated from offices in the centre of London and since 1975 has been based in St James's. In 2000 the firm merged with Maidment Penney Quick & Co, a long established practice based in Covent Garden, and became Slater Maidment. In 2006, the firm celebrated 100 Years of Service. Related links |
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