Jeremy Fearnley to lead M&A activity across Azets in the UK and Nordics
Azets, one of Europe’s largest regional accountancy firms and business advisors to SMEs, with c.120,000 clients, is delighted to announce the appointment of Jeremy Fearnley as Group Head of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). The role includes responsibility for M&A activity across Azets in the UK and Nordics.
Jeremy is a seasoned M&A leader, with a track record of advising complex, multi-million-pound transactions. He built a career as a deal advisor, working in the Corporate Finance team of a Big 4 accounting firm in the UK and across Asia, culminating in five years as the Head of M&A in Hong Kong. Throughout this time, Jeremy amassed a broad range of experience, working on many public and private transactions, covering acquisitions, disposals, fundraisings, public-to-private transactions, and private equity deals.
Jeremy’s desire to directly build a business led him to Equiom, a private equity backed international professional services group, where he spent the past six years delivering acquisitive growth, spearheading its international and service line expansion, as Global Head of Strategy and M&A.
As Group Head of M&A with Azets, a Top 10 accountancy firm in the UK, Jeremy will focus on driving continued geographical expansion and solution proposition via the acquisition of high quality, complementary groups.
Jeremy Fearnley, Group Head of M&A with Azets, said: “I am delighted to join Azets at a time of significant growth and look forward to working closely with our leaders to find ways to add to our unique market proposition. To build on our position as a leading advisor and provider of professional and outsourced services, Azets is interested in acquiring groups which share our vision for talent development, exceptional service provision, a culture of innovation and for making work enjoyable.”
Chris Horne, Group CEO of Azets, said: “Jeremy is a wonderful addition to the Azets leadership team, and we are thrilled to welcome someone of his calibre and standing. Jeremy is a renowned M&A leader, and this is a timely appointment in the continued expansion of Azets, with acquisitive growth a key part of our plans to increase revenue by 50% in the next five years.”
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Azets is an SME focused international accounting, tax, audit, advisory and business services group, with 160 offices across the UK and Europe, over 6,500 employees and 600 Partners. In the UK, Azets is the largest regional accountancy and business advisor to SMEs and the 9th largest accountancy business. Blick Rothenberg, the award winning international corporate and private tax and accounting brand is also a part of Azets Group.
The Azets client experience is based on delivering a highly personalised service, through its local office network and its proprietary digital workplace technology, “Azets CoZone”. A unique cloud-based portal, Azets CoZone offers SMEs a market leading digital solution, with instant access to information about their business that simplifies workflows, increases operational productivity, and supports a more productive client relationship.
Across its network of offices, Azets supports c.120,000 clients across the UK and Europe. Clients include enterprises, SMEs, large scale business, public sector, and private clients, across multiple sectors.