Founded in Aberdeen in 2015, Hutcheon Mearns has 70 staff and provides outsourced CFO, corporate finance, deals and M&A advisory, and specialist recruitment, as well as tax and accounting services.

With a strong balance sheet and net assets of £2.8m reported in the FY25 accounts, Hutcheon Mearns is an ideal fit for the acquisitive Cooper Parry group. The Scottish firm describes itself as a ‘people first, fearless and “go all in” business’, which is attempting to shake up the staid image of accountancy’.

It has five offices in Scotland – Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, as well as a satellite office in London. The acquisition will expand Cooper Parry’s presence in Scotland, where it currently has a hub office in Edinburgh and earlier this year hired Neil Norman as regional head of Scotland.

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