K3 Advisory Group has announced the merger of two of its brands, KR8 Advisory and Quantuma’s restructuring and forensic accounting business, creating a single multidisciplinary advisory business under the KR8 Advisory brand.
Launching during August 2026, the combined business will bring together more than 300 professionals across 11 offices, creating one of the UK's largest independent mid-market full service advisory practices.
KR8 Advisory will combine expertise across advisory, restructuring, insolvency, forensic accounting, valuations, eDiscovery, real estate, tax, and transaction advisory capabilities.
The merger reflects growing demand from businesses, lenders, investors, and professional advisers for integrated advisory solutions that draw on multiple specialisms to address increasingly complex opportunities and challenges.
Michael Cauter, CEO of K3 Advisory Group, said:
"In our experience, clients and their advisers want access to broader expertise, deeper specialist capability and joined-up thinking through a single relationship.
Bringing KR8 Advisory and Quantuma together creates a business with the scale, reach and multidisciplinary capability to meet that demand. We are creating a full-service advisory platform that supports clients across the entire business lifecycle, from growth and transactions through to navigating change and challenge.
"The KR8 Advisory brand has been built around advisory work and provides a clear, differentiated platform for growth. Combined with the expertise, relationships and reputation developed across Quantuma, we believe this creates something genuinely distinctive in the market.
Our ambition is simple: to build a leading multidisciplinary advisory practice with the capability, culture and energy to compete for the most complex and high-value work in the UK mid-market."
The merger follows a period of successful collaboration between the two businesses and forms part of K3 Advisory Group’s broader strategy of building focused, market-leading advisory brands.
The new business will operate as a single national brand, providing clients and professional contacts with high impact advice and access to a wider range of services through a single full service advisory platform. The combined scale of the business is expected to enhance its ability to win larger and more complex mandates, invest in technology and talent, and further strengthen its position in the UK mid-market.
Further news about Quantuma’s Corporate Finance business’ rebranding will follow.
