{"id":14175,"date":"2026-08-21T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:47:09","slug":"innes-partners-joins-sumer-through-eq-merger-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14175","title":{"rendered":"Innes &#038; Partners joins Sumer through EQ merger \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Innes and Craig Nicol<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">EQ, part of mid-market accountancy practice Sumer Group, has merged with\u202fInnes &amp; Partners, a firm serving the Inverness and Livingston area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It represents\u00a0a strategic priority for EQ\u00a0to extend into the North of Scotland and will see its headcount rise by 7%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The team has grown from 290 to 310, a significant increase from 140, when EQ joined Sumer Group in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Innes &amp; Partners\u2019 team of 20 professionals will join Sumer\u2019s regional accounting practices of over\u202f3,000 colleagues across more than 70 UK offices.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Craig Nicol, CEO at EQ\u202fsaid:\u00a0\u201cThis\u202fmerger\u202frepresents\u00a0another significant step in our ambitious growth\u00a0strategy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Innes &amp; Partners\u2019 director Jonathan\u00a0Innes,\u00a0who will remain a partner in the Inverness team, commented: \u201cJoining\u202fEQ, and the Sumer Group, marks an exciting new chapter for our firm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re proud to join\u202fan organisation that shares our commitment to supporting SME businesses and the communities they serve, alongside continuing to support all the\u00a0not-for-profit\u00a0work that we currently do and more.\u201d\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The firm will continue to\u202foperate\u202ffrom its current locations in Inverness and Livingston, ensuring continuity for clients.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Innes #Partners #joins #Sumer #merger #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Innes and Craig Nicol EQ, part of mid-market accountancy practice Sumer Group, has merged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,306,19849,19852,19850,1242,5653,2384,19853,19851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}