When your client says 'I'm thinking about selling', who do you call?

A confidential referral programme for accountants, lawyers, financial advisers and growth partners. Introduce founders considering a sale of their essential services, healthcare or building services business and earn 15 to 20 percent of our success fee on completion, backed by a written referral agreement and NDA.

You're often the first person they call. That's a responsibility.

Your client trusts you because you've earned it across years of tax returns, restructures, contracts, succession planning. So when they finally say the words, 'I think I'm ready to sell', your recommendation carries weight.

Recommending the wrong M&A advisor isn't just a deal risk. It's a reputational one. The wrong process erodes trust you spent a decade building.

We built this referral programme to be the firm you can recommend without hesitation. We work within your conduct rules, brief you weekly, and treat your client like our most important one, because to you, they are.

A £5m transaction introduced directly pays £40,000. Direct introductions above £20m in transaction value earn £120,000 or more, rising to £320,000 at the top of the scale.

Confirmed in writing.

Every introduction is confirmed back to you by email within 24 hours and logged against your firm.

18-month attribution.

Your introduction is attributed to you for 18 months, whether or not you have signed the Referral Agreement at the time you make it.

You stay in control.

We never contact a business owner you have flagged until you tell us to.

A contract you can read right now.

Fees are paid on completion under the written Referral Agreement, published in full below. No surprises at the finish line.

Retain the client relationship.

Keeping your client in-house through a sale process protects recurring audit, management-accounts and legal fees that are otherwise lost when a founder moves to a transaction-side firm.

Add transaction-linked revenue.

Post-introduction, you remain the incumbent adviser on tax structuring, completion accounts, SPA review and post-close integration workstreams. Acquirers frequently retain the incumbent adviser through the transition period. And where buyer-side workstreams arise across our network, partner firms are introduced first.

Share in the success fee.

15% on ambient referrals and 20% on direct introductions of our completion fee, in addition to any advisory work you continue to bill directly.

Example acquirers on our desk.

A live, mapped buyer network across strategic, financial and independent capital. Named counterparties are shared under NDA once a mandate is signed.

Three steps, from first call to first introduction.

Start here

Book a 30 minute confidential discovery call.

Held with our partners desk. Covers economics, attribution, sector fit and the Referral Agreement. No obligation to proceed.

Can your firm accept this fee? Yes. Here is how.

Regulated professionals can receive referral fees with informed client consent and written disclosure. Most firms use one of three routes. Route one: an advance consent paragraph in your engagement letter stating the likely fee range. Route two: a specific consent letter per referral, signed before the introduction proceeds. Route three: rebate the fee to your client, or waive it entirely, and refer because the outcome is right. We provide the client consent and disclosure templates for all three routes, compatible with RQ, the referral platform ICAEW offers its members. Growth and hiring agencies without a professional conduct framework can skip this section entirely.