Five
cohorts.
One bench.
Every accommodation deal needs more than a broker. It needs a lawyer who has redrafted a caretaking agreement before, a financier who can tell goodwill-secured lending from a residential mortgage, and an accountant who knows what to normalise out of a P&L.
The five cohorts below are the firms the bench reaches for first. They are independent — we earn nothing from referring you. The list is curated from forty years of watching who actually delivers, and pruned when they stop.
The contract specialists. Lease redrafts, trust-account assignment, body-corp consents and the awkward special-condition that nobody else will negotiate.
Brokers and lenders who actually understand goodwill-secured lending against an operating accommodation business. Most don't.
The financial-due-diligence operators. Trust-account audits, P&L normalisation, deal-structure tax advice.
The trades who turn up to an accommodation site and don't need to be re-briefed. Linen rooms, A/C plant, pool plant, fire systems.
The specialists that don't fit a clean cohort but do the work the deal still needs done.
Curated
by use.
Pruned by silence.
Use, not promise.
A firm is added only after a broker has worked with them through a settled transaction. Cold introductions, marketing approaches and sponsored panels do not put a firm on the bench.
One sector, no generalists.
Each firm specialises in accommodation work — not commercial, not residential. We ask for the named partner who handles the sector, not the firm's general front desk.
Pruned when they stop.
If a firm misses a deadline, mishandles a vendor or moves the partner who knew us, they're flagged. Two flags and the bench moves on. The list is shorter than it could be on purpose.
Zero
kickbacks.
Zero arrangements.
Referral fees paid or received across forty years on this bench.
Sponsored placements. Firms cannot buy their way onto the cohort list.
Of bench entries are use-tested through a settled transaction first.
Strikes and a firm is removed from the bench. Quietly, for the next deal.
We are paid by vendors and buyers for accommodation business sales. We are not paid by the lawyers, the financiers, the accountants, the trades, or the SaaS platforms on this list. None of them know we are about to recommend them on a given file. The whole point is that the recommendation is worth something.
Ask the
broker.
Contact details aren't published — most firms on this bench prefer a warm introduction through us. Speak to the broker on your transaction; they'll match the firm to the file and route the call. The introduction is free, and the firm will know you're coming.