Shaw Gibbs is a top 40 accounting firm, providing clients with a full range of accounting, tax, payroll and specialist advisory services.
Shaw Gibbs is a distinguished top 40 accounting firm, providing a comprehensive suite of accounting, tax, payroll, and specialist advisory services to its clients. From its origins in Oxford, the business has strategically expanded both organically and through acquisition, now boasting 16 offices across central and southern England. With a strong team of 52 partners and 593 employees, Shaw Gibbs serves over 20,000 clients including 7,000 SMEs and corporates. The experienced management team at Shaw Gibbs is led by Peter O’Connell, who has served as CEO since 2015.
Driving Strategic Growth Through Partnership
Our firm has worked with the Shaw Gibbs leadership team for many years, providing high-level advice across a key investment by Apiary Capital and various acquisitions
made since that investment.
Our close collaboration with Shaw Gibbs’ leadership has allowed us to function as an integrated extension of their team. This immersion has provided us with a thorough understanding of their industry, commercial objectives, and operational nuances, enabling our team to successfully negotiate the most favourable terms across a range of growth projects. This has been particularly valuable during Shaw Gibbs’ recent strategic ‘buy-and-build’ programme, which involved the efficient execution of multiple add-on acquisitions within a condensed timeframe.
Our commitment to a long-term relationship with Shaw Gibbs translates into significant operational efficiencies, allowing us to deliver maximum value back to the business. These efficiencies include:
Business doesn’t stop during a transaction. By acting as an extension of their team, we can develop proposed courses of action with autonomy, freeing up the Shaw Gibbs’ leadership team to maintain focus on core business operations without unnecessary disruption.
Our in-depth understanding of Shaw Gibbs’ risk appetite allows us to strategically focus on the most critical due diligence areas, effectively minimising the risk of overlooking potential liabilities.
Our growth team provided expert guidance to the Shaw Gibbs
team through their £10 million investment from Apiary Capital. This significant
investment has enabled Shaw Gibbs to accelerate their ambitious expansion plans
through a targeted M&A programme. Following the investment, our team
spearheaded Shaw Gibbs’ successful acquisitions of Wise & Co, Harmer
Slater, Herbert Parnell, DNG Dove Naish and a US tax team.
Since partnering with White & Black, Shaw Gibbs has:
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