Premier International was founded in 1997 as an international affiliation of leading independent accounting and business consulting firms that recognize the challenges and opportunities of today's global economy. These challenges come from many directions, including the prevalence of United States companies with multi-state locations, NAFTA, the expansion of the European Union, the creation of the Euro, the development of Central and Eastern Europe, and opportunities within the Pacific Rim, Africa, and Central and South America.

Premier International was founded to give mid-sized accounting and consulting firms the opportunity to band together and offer their clients the highest standards of professional competence and custom-tailored services on a global scale. Each of the member firms is dedicated to providing its clients with traditional accounting, audit, tax and business consulting services as well as sophisticated tax planning, management advisory and technical support services.

Each firm affiliated with Premier International must be able to meet these criteria. It is our dedication to personalized service that sets us apart from large, multinational firms. Unlike most of those firms, every client of each Premier International firm has access to at least one partner and receives individual attention on a peer-to-peer level.

Foster Raffan became an affiliated firm of Premier International Associates in 2002.