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28 July 2008
Joint statement from Bartfields Chartered Accountants and BDO Stoy Hayward reagrding the acquisition of BDO's Leeds-based Business Services Team.
Bartfields Chartered Accountants based in Leeds are pleased to announce that they have completed the acquisition of the Business Services team from the Leeds office of accountants and business advisors BDO Stoy Hayward for an undisclosed sum.
The sale includes a core team of experienced staff covering members of the Accounts and Tax team.
Gavin Bell a senior partner at Bartfields said “The acquisition of the Business Services team was key to helping us enhance the service we already provide to our clients and allows us to offer our new and existing clients more specialist services to help them become more successful and profitable by using our skills with numbers to proactively help them measure and improve everything that really matters to them and their businesses.”
“I would also like to thank BDO for their assistance in making this deal happen and through our negotiations they have been extremely supportive and we are looking to develop an ongoing relationship with them moving forward to give all our clients best service”
Ian Beaumont, lead partner at BDO Stoy Hayward’s Leeds office said: “Over the last year, Graham Berks and Richard Brown, the key partners who ran this part of our business have retired from the firm. Without a partner to drive forward this part of our business, we concluded that it was more appropriate to look to sell it to a firm specialising in this area.
“Bartfields is a great firm and has an excellent reputation and a proven track record in this area of business. This sale will not only deliver a more focused and specialist service to our clients but will also enhance the career development opportunities for our staff who are joining Bartfields. I wish them all the very best for the future.”
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31 October 2007
Press Release
Bartfields, a leading firm of Chartered Accountants based in Leeds, are delighted to announce that they have sold their Insolvency and Corporate Recovery division to Begbies Traynor Group plc the specialist professional services organisation .Head of Insolvency at Bartfields, Gerald Krasner, joins Begbies Traynor as a partner, taking with him his experienced team whilst retaining a role as a consultant with Bartfields for the foreseeable future.
The sale allows Bartfields to further enhance its growing reputation in the business community as a practice devoted to helping their clients become more successful and profitable through the use of its extensive range of business development tools and tax planning strategies.
During its’ 80 years in practice, Bartfields has always focused upon building close working relationships with its’ clients and this highly proactive approach will be maintained whilst the company also continues to expand the range of specialist services it offers.
Raymond Davidson, a Director at Bartfields says ‘this sale provides Bartfields with the platform to build upon its' existing position as one of the leading independent firms of Chartered Accountants in Leeds by focusing on the core services it offers to clients whilst further developing the range of those high quality services to meet the ever changing needs of our clients.’
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