Xeinadin acquired Campbell Crossley & Davis in March 2026, strengthening its corporate recovery capabilities and expanding its presence across the North West.
Established in 1994 and based in Blackpool, Campbell Crossley & Davis has developed a respected position in insolvency and restructuring, supporting owner-managed businesses across the region.
The acquisition brings that specialist expertise into Xeinadin’s wider accountancy platform, supporting its strategy of combining strong local relationships with broader technical capabilities.
Capital & Trust supported Xeinadin throughout the transaction, providing strategic planning, regulatory insight, detailed analysis and process support.
Adding specialist expertise to a broader platform
Xeinadin has built a significant presence across the UK and Ireland, providing accountancy services and business advice to SMEs and private clients.
Its growth has focused on combining local client relationships with wider technical depth, allowing the business to expand its specialist capabilities while maintaining a client-focused delivery model.
Campbell Crossley & Davis represented a strong fit within that approach.
With more than three decades of experience in insolvency and restructuring, the firm adds established specialist capability to Xeinadin’s corporate recovery offering while strengthening the group’s regional presence in the North West.
The transaction therefore supports more than geographical expansion. It gives Xeinadin additional depth within a specialist service line that supports businesses facing financial pressure, restructuring requirements and operational change.
Capital & Trust’s role
Capital & Trust assisted Xeinadin across key stages of the acquisition, helping the business progress the transaction in a structured and informed way.
Our support included strategic planning to shape the transaction approach and align the acquisition with Xeinadin’s broader growth and capability objectives, alongside regulatory insight into relevant sector and transaction considerations.
Capital & Trust also provided detailed assessment of information central to the deal process and process support to maintain coordination, momentum and clarity throughout the transaction.
This combination of careful planning and detailed review supported Xeinadin as it evaluated and progressed the acquisition.
Our perspective
Xeinadin’s acquisition of Campbell Crossley & Davis demonstrates how M&A can be used to build specialist capability alongside scale.
For larger accountancy and professional-services groups, growth does not necessarily mean simply adding more offices, clients or geographical coverage. Acquisitions can also provide an opportunity to strengthen specific areas of expertise within a broader service offering.
Specialist firms bring knowledge and experience developed within a particular area of the market. When that expertise is incorporated into a larger platform, it can complement the wider resources and capabilities already available across the group.
In this case, Campbell Crossley & Davis brings established insolvency and restructuring expertise into Xeinadin’s broader accountancy platform while retaining the regional knowledge and relationships developed since the firm was established in 1994.
The transaction illustrates how targeted acquisitions can simultaneously strengthen regional coverage and specialist capability, creating a broader platform without making scale the sole objective of growth.
