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Burgess Hodgson Partners with Abry Partners to Drive Strategic Growth and Expansion
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Subscribe09 JUN 2025 / M&A UPDATES
UK-based accounting firm, Burgess Hodgson (BH), has entered a strategic partnership with Boston-based private equity firm, Abry Partners. This partnership aims to expand BH's market reach, enhance digital capabilities, and advance its mergers and acquisitions, marking a significant step in its growth strategy.
Burgess Hodgson (BH), a Canterbury, U.K.-based provider of accounting and business advisory services, has entered into a strategic partnership with Boston-based private equity firm Abry Partners. The collaboration marks a pivotal step in BH’s growth strategy, aimed at expanding its market reach, enhancing digital capabilities, and advancing targeted mergers and acquisitions.
Founded in 1938, BH has built a trusted reputation serving over 5,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individual clients. With a team of more than 200 professionals, the firm offers a full range of services, including audit, tax, accounts advisory, outsourced finance, payroll, and corporate advisory. Its senior-led service model, strong regional ties, and connection to local academic and business communities have made BH a go-to advisor for high-growth businesses across London and Southeast England.
The investment by Abry Partners brings both financial resources and strategic guidance, setting the stage for BH to become a super-regional advisory platform. BH’s leadership team and broader partnership group will retain significant equity ownership and continue to lead the firm’s long-term strategic direction.
“This partnership represents an exciting opportunity for our firm,” said Richard Stewart, CEO of Burgess Hodgson. “We’ve built our business by focusing relentlessly on our clients, and Abry shares that ethos. Their track record of backing financial services firms, both in the UK and North America, gives us great confidence in our shared future. Together, we’re well-positioned to build on our legacy and pursue a new phase of growth.”
Abry Partners expressed strong confidence in BH’s potential. “Burgess Hodgson is a firm with a strong heritage and significant potential to scale in an attractive and growing sector,” said Vidur Khatri, principal at Abry Partners. “BH is the go-to advisor for SMEs across Southeast England, and we look forward to working closely with the team to invest in technology and thoughtfully pursue strategic partnerships.”
Zaid Khanbozai, vice president at Abry, added, “BH represents exactly the kind of firm Abry seeks to back — entrepreneurial and client-focused. We are excited to support Richard and the broader BH partnership group to expand the firm’s reach and continue building a market-leading platform for SME advisory services.”
As part of the partnership, Mark Pacitti, a former global leader of Deloitte’s corporate finance advisory practice and past chairman of the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty, will join BH’s board as non-executive chairman. His appointment is expected to strengthen the firm’s strategic and operational development initiatives.
The collaboration between Burgess Hodgson and Abry Partners is set to accelerate BH’s evolution into a national force in SME advisory services, combining legacy expertise with forward-looking investment and innovation.
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