By David Wood | 24th January 2025
Gloucestershire-based payroll specialist BookCheck has acquired the payroll client base of Rickard Luckin, the Essex firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors.
The acquisition, which involves the payroll of several hundred clients of the firm, will also see six members of the accountancy firm's staff transfer over to BookCheck.
James Wetherall, managing director of BookCheck, said: "We are delighted to have reached this agreement with Rickard Luckin. One of our core strategies is to expand our payroll client base significantly, both through organic growth and acquisition.
"We would like to thank Steve Revill and the board at Rickard Luckin for choosing BookCheck to handle their clients' payrolls, which is testament to the quality of the work we do in this area. We are very much looking forward to getting to know our new clients.".
Steve Revill, managing director of Rickard Luckin, said: "We set out to create a long-term, sustainable and scalable payroll service for our clients and felt the best way to achieve this was through a strategic business relationship with a specialist payroll bureau.
"It was vital that we found a business that shared our commitment to customer service, professionalism and quality. From our very first meeting with the team at BookCheck, we knew that our payroll clients would be in good hands, thanks to a combination of their pragmatic and friendly style and the commitment to quality management that comes with ISO 9001 accreditation."
This acquisition represents a significant increase in the number of companies' payrolls that BookCheck will now manage for clients across the United Kingdom, alongside the Bookkeeping with Management Information services that the firm provides. BookCheck were advised on the transaction by Cheltenham solicitors, Hughes Paddison.
James Wetherall added: "We do anticipate carrying out more acquisitions of this nature in the future, so would encourage directors or partners in accountancy firms that want to focus on their core services and find a new home for their payroll clients, to get in touch with us.
"We are also very interested in hearing from firms who want to refer any future payroll clients to us, as we have a highly scalable model in place."
Gloucestershire payroll specialists in significant acquisition
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