Haines Watts swoops for Leicester rival

Haines Watts, the Leicester-based chartered accountants and business adviseers, has bought fellow city firm Gutteridge Scanlan.

Andrew Scanlan set up Gutteridge Scanlan in Leicester since 1977 and said he recently decided the time had come to merge his business into something larger.

He said: “I am looking forward to becoming an associate partner and working with my clients without the administrative burden of running my business. I had many interested parties wanting to buy my practice but I wanted to ensure that my clients received excellent service with a long established company and that is why I chose Haines Watts Leicester”.

All the Scanlan team will transfer to Haines Watts as part of the acquisition.

Haines Watts’ managing partner Sanjay Khullar said: “I am delighted to seal the deal with Andrew and look forward to working with him and our new clients. We are also delighted to welcome Andrew’s team into our offices which we have had to expand; our recent growth had already left us short of space, so we took the plunge, bought the adjacent office, and knocked through to give us scope for further growth.”