INDUSTRIES

Professional and Business Services

Succession, partner architecture, M&A, and operating discipline for people-led firms.

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Professional and Business Services

Where the firm meets its own kind of client.

Law firms, accounting firms, consulting practices, marketing and creative agencies, recruiting and staffing firms, engineering and architecture practices, and the dozens of B2B services categories where the asset is the people. We work with these firms because we understand them, Occams Advisory is one. The questions our professional-services clients face are the questions we have faced ourselves: partner-equity architecture, succession planning, practice-area expansion, lateral integration, geographic growth, the build-or-buy question, and ultimately whether to sell to a consolidator or continue as an independent.

Where the value is created

A professional-services firm’s value is its people and its recurring relationships, both notoriously hard to transfer in a sale. The work is to institutionalize what currently lives in a few partners’ heads: the compensation and equity architecture that retains talent, the operating discipline that makes the firm less dependent on any one rainmaker, and the succession plan that lets value transfer at all. We do this work as a firm that has solved it for itself.

Where we work most

Strategic Advisory on partner architecture, succession, and practice expansion

Sell-Side M&A for founder-owned firms transitioning to consolidators or strategic buyers

OccamsOS for the operating cadence, board discipline, and capital-readiness preparation that grows a firm toward institutional standard

Tax Advisory including partner-personal coordination and pre-transaction restructuring

Human Capital Advisory for compensation architecture, equity-plan design, and the retention work that defines a services firm

A representative engagement.

A partner-led agency engages for succession and partner-equity design, installs OccamsOS operating discipline to reduce founder dependence, and three years later transitions to a strategic consolidator at a valuation that reflects a transferable business rather than a personality.

Designed For

Founder-owned and partner-led professional services firms in the $5M–$100M revenue range across legal, accounting, consulting, creative, recruiting, engineering, and architecture.