Why Our Clients Choose to Work With a Broker
Selling, buying or merging a practice can feel like unfamiliar territory — understandably so, since most people only do it once or twice in an entire career. A good broker changes that. We act for both sides of a deal, not because it’s a conflict, but because it’s the only way to reach a result that genuinely works for everyone: a happy vendor, a happy purchaser, and an outcome neither could easily have reached alone.
A purchaser worries they might be buying more problems than they bargained for; a vendor worries about choosing the wrong buyer, or being caught out by a clawback clause years down the line. We’ve heard every version of both worries before, and we’re with you from the very first conversation to help you avoid them.
Who Are A.P.M.A.’s Clients?
Our clients come from every corner of the profession, and they all have one thing in common: they’re ready for change, and they’ve decided not to go it alone.
They include first-time buyers — often still employed elsewhere, quietly building a small client base of their own in the evenings and at weekends while they wait for the right opportunity. They include sole practitioners and two-partner firms, who between them make up the great majority of the profession. They include group practices spanning several offices across a region, and well-established firms with turnover typically between £6m and £25m, who like to know what’s out there even when they’re not actively looking.
We’re also regularly approached by larger firms for a more discreet, one-off exercise — identifying and quietly approaching a specific practice on their behalf, in much the same way a headhunter would in executive search.
What We Do For Our Clients
Put simply: whatever is legitimate, professional, and gets you where you want to be. We take the time to get to know every client personally, and it’s that closeness that lets us come up with solutions people often hadn’t even considered.
It’s also what sets us apart. Plenty of the newer names in this market are either consolidators, offering a fairly standard deal to anyone who fits their template, or they promote speculative ‘deals’ which have not actually been committed to by the vendors listed themselves — more fast-food chain than trusted adviser. That’s never been how we work.
Every practice we handle is different, and every client gets our full, personal attention, not a one-size-fits-all process.
A Track Record You Can Trust
We’ve been doing this for decades, and we’ve successfully negotiated and brokered a great many high-value, high-profile deals along the way — you’ll find details of many of them on our Past Sales page. Take a look at our current Opportunities too, a good number of which came to us through clients just like you.
If you’re ready to talk, we’d love to hear from you — get in touch for a no-obligation conversation.