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About Hedley Partners

Built so your whole financial picture sits with one team.

Hedley Partners brings accounting, lending, financial advice, property and business advisory together under one roof in South Melbourne — five separately licensed businesses, run by the same partners, working from the same set of numbers.

Why we exist

Your business is one business. Why is it advised by four separate firms?

Most owners end up with an accountant who has never valued their type of business, a broker who does not understand how it lends, a planner who has never seen the P&L, and a lease conversation nobody is managing. Each holds a partial view, and the owner is left to hold the whole picture while also running the business.

Hedley Partners was built to fix that. One team, one engagement, one set of numbers — so the structure is tested against the debt, the lending is shaped around the exit, the lease is treated as asset strategy and the valuation is tracked continuously rather than scrambled for.

We go deepest in community pharmacy, where the partners have spent around two decades working with owners from first acquisition to sale. The same integrated model works for medical and allied health practices, trading businesses of every kind, property investors and families.

How we work

Three principles behind every engagement.

01

We start with the numbers

Every engagement opens with a read of your actual position — margin, debt, structure and value. Advice that is not grounded in your figures is just an opinion.

02

Every decision cross-checked

Before a recommendation reaches you it has been tested against the tax, lending, property and wealth consequences. That cross-check is the point of the firm.

03

We stay for the whole arc

From your first acquisition through to retirement income after the sale. Continuity is worth more than any single piece of advice.

Working with us

What to expect from the first call.

A free conversation

Twenty minutes, no charge, no documents required. Where you are and what you want to change.

An honest read

We tell you what we would do — and if we are not the right fit, we say so and point you somewhere better.

Clear engagement

Written scope and fees for each division you engage. No bundle and no lock-in.

One relationship

Senior people who know your whole position, reviewing it as your circumstances change.

Leadership

Senior people. Not a service desk.

The two people who set the strategy are the two people who answer the phone.

Paul Hedley, Chairman · Accounting & Business Advice, Hedley Partners
Paul Hedley
Chairman · Accounting & Business Advice

Founding partner with more than 40 years across accounting, finance, property and business advice. Paul leads structuring, tax and valuation — the decisions that quietly determine what a business is worth a decade later.

Blake Hedley, Managing Director · Property & Finance, Hedley Partners
Blake Hedley
Managing Director · Property & Finance

17+ years in finance and property, with a Bachelor of Commerce and Law and a Master of Property. Blake leads lending and premises strategy, is a senior auctioneer, and is the authorised representative behind Hedley Capital.

Twenty minutes. No invoice.

Tell us where you are and we will tell you, honestly, whether we can improve on what you have.