Read 2026-10-28
Buying out a business partner
Three of the 27 UK solicitors, valuers and advisers read for this site publish a fee for the work around a partner buyout: £100, £750 and £1,500, a median of £750. The rest quote per matter. Below: every published figure, the rules a buyout runs into, and a free call with Joe if you want to talk your own buyout through.
Source: Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source
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£750
median published figure, 3 readings
Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source -
3 of 27
providers read that publish a price at all
Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source -
£100
the cheapest published, by Sprintlaw: share buy-out agreement
Sprintlaw: share buy-out agreement
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Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 3 of 27 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 27 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 24 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 38 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per service (share valuation, buy-out agreement, dispute review, partnership exit) the published fees across UK firms (lowest fixed fee, median of published starting fees) and the share of firms that publish against those that quote per matter; the calculator adds the median adviser cost to the buyout price and tax
| Provider | Published figure | Read | Source |
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| Sprintlaw: share buy-out agreement | £100 | 2026-10-28 | Sprintlaw: share buy-out agreement |
| Jonathan Lea Network: private company valuation for shareholder buyouts | £750 | 2026-10-28 | Jonathan Lea Network: private company valuation for shareholder buyouts |
| Gannons: shareholder disputes | £1,500 | 2026-10-28 | Gannons: shareholder disputes |
| Sprintlaw: share buyout agreements | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Sprintlaw: share buyout agreements |
| Sprintlaw: leaving a partnership | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Sprintlaw: leaving a partnership |
| Alto Accounting: buying out a business partner | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Alto Accounting: buying out a business partner |
| Moore Kingston Smith: valuations for shareholder and partnership disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Moore Kingston Smith: valuations for shareholder and partnership disputes |
| Summit Law: shareholder disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Summit Law: shareholder disputes |
| Banner Jones: shareholder and partnership disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Banner Jones: shareholder and partnership disputes |
| My Barrister: shareholder disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | My Barrister: shareholder disputes |
| Aaron & Partners: shareholder disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Aaron & Partners: shareholder disputes |
| JB Barkers: shareholder and partner disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | JB Barkers: shareholder and partner disputes |
| Gannons: dissolution of a partnership | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Gannons: dissolution of a partnership |
| Withers: shareholder disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Withers: shareholder disputes |
| Attwells: director and shareholder disputes | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Attwells: director and shareholder disputes |
- The median published figure is £750 across 3 readings, with the middle half between £100 and £1,500. (Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source)
- 3 of 27 providers read publish a price at all; 24 publish none. (Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source)
- The cheapest published figure is £100, by Sprintlaw: share buy-out agreement. (Sprintlaw: share buy-out agreement)
- The dearest published figure is £1,500, by Gannons: shareholder disputes. (Gannons: shareholder disputes)
Cite this page
“Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index”, Buying out a business partner, https://buyingoutabusinesspartner.co.uk/ (updated 2026-10-28). Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 27 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 24 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 38 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per service (share valuation, buy-out agreement, dispute review, partnership exit) the published fees across UK firms (lowest fixed fee, median of published starting fees) and the share of firms that publish against those that quote per matter; the calculator adds the median adviser cost to the buyout price and tax
Go deeper
Sourced, dated, kept current.
- Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every published figure
Every provider we read that publishes a figure for buying out a business partner, what it publishes, and the day we read it. 3 of 27 read.
- Who publishes a price, and who makes you ask
3 of 27 providers read for buying out a business partner publish a figure. These are the ones that do not.
- Business partner buyout calculator: the figures that decide the price
Working out a business partner buyout: the share's value, the tax on the leaver at 18% BADR or 18% and 24% CGT, 0.5% duty on shares and the company buyback rules.
How it works
- Step 1 Tell us the structure, the share and what you need. About a minute, no account.
- Step 2 Joe reads it himself and replies to you directly. Nothing is passed to a solicitor, valuer or any other firm.
- Step 3 You talk it through on a free call and decide what, if anything, to do next.
This site is run by Joe, who answers every enquiry himself; no solicitor, valuer or other firm receives it. It carries no advertising, no sponsored placement and no affiliate links, and no provider in the table has paid to be there. Every figure is read from the named provider's own public page on the date shown. Nothing here is tax or legal advice.
Common questions
What do UK solicitors, valuers and accountants charge to value a partner's share and document a buyout or exit?
The median published figure is £750. The middle half of the readings sit between £100 and £1,500 and the whole spread runs £100 to £1,500, over 3 figures read on 2026-10-28. A spread that wide is the honest answer: what you pay depends on the scope, so the table below shows every reading and who published it. (Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source)
How many providers publish a price at all?
3 of the 27 read, out of 28 named. The others answer with a quote form. They are listed in the table as publishing no price rather than dropped, because the share of a market that will not put a number on its own page is itself a finding. (Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source)
Where do these figures come from, and when were they read?
Each one is a sentence on the provider's own page, read on 2026-10-28 through our own fetch box and stored with the hash of the page's text, so the row can be checked against what was there that day. The row links to the page it came from. (Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source)
Is this a price for my job?
No. Every figure here is what a provider advertises on its own page for its own packages, not a quote for your work, and the spread from £100 to £1,500 is exactly why. Scope is what moves it. Ask for a price and you get one; this page is so you know what you are hearing when you do. (Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index: every row, with its source)
Who answers an enquiry from this page?
Joseph Ellul, who runs this site and does this work. There is no lead panel behind the form: the enquiry is read by the company that would do the job, and your details are not passed on or resold to anyone.
Sources
This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:
- The Partner Buyout Adviser Fee Index carries 3 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 100 to 1,500 GBP, read 28 October 2026.
- The Partner Buyout Rules carries 6 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 5 to 75 percent, read 28 October 2026.