In a pair of acquisitions, Mercer Global Advisors this week acquired HYA Advisors of Springfield, Mo., and Sanford Advisory Services of Portage, Mich., adding some 2,100 clients with $2.3 billion in assets under management.

In both cases, the firms’ management noted that Mercer’s ability to provide in-house estate planning, tax preparation, corporate trustee capabilities and legal counsel to solidly performing financial planning practices was among the factors that made the relationships so workable in their eyes, according to press releases on the deals.

“I loved that we could offload back-office activities to Mercer Advisors, creating excess capacity for us to do what we do best: service existing clients and win new ones,” said Scott Williams, a CFP and partner who has been with Sanford from its inception, the release said.

The firm was founded by Todd Sanford in 2000, and Williams became a partner in 2006, according to the release, and both will continue with the firm, which currently has $1.1 billion in AUM. The third partner is Brent Kerstetter, and a team of 10 professionals will be joining them.

HYA Advisors—and its related entity Heim, Young & Associates—has been serving the Springfield community since 1991. While founders Dennis Heim and Dean Young still appear on the firm’s website, the acquisition included a transition strategy for the firm, which will now be led by Brent Singleton, Mike Sharp, Jeff Bilberry and Holly Gray, the Mercer release said.

Brent Singleton did not return a call for comment, but a statement released by Mercer said that the deal allowed the next generation of partners to remain as equity owners in the business.

“Brent and his partners wanted to remain as equity owners in the business they were helping to grow, and we created a deal structure that allowed them to do just that,” Mercer vice chairman David Barton said in the statement.

All the investment professionals at HYA hold CFP designations, and they bring $1.2 billion in AUM under the Mercer banner, the release said.

Established in 1985, Mercer is a wealth management firm that has grown significantly over the years through acquisition, and it now holds 60-plus offices nationwide, with more than 670 employees and more than $38 billion in client assets.