Professional Services. Partnerships, people and partner reward.

Law firms (full-service and boutique), management consultancies, creative and marketing agencies, search and recruitment firms, surveying and architectural practices. Partnerships of all sizes — from new spin-outs through to long-established firms preparing to convert or sell.

Utilisation, realisation, lock-up, WIP and three-line operating profit per partner — the small set of measures that tell a partnership how the business is actually performing month to month. We help finance teams cut through the noise and report what matters.

• Lock-up days analysis (WIP + debtors)
• Per-partner contribution and recovery
• Fee earner utilisation and effective rate
• Capacity and headcount modelling

Profit-sharing arrangements, equity admission, capital contributions and exit — structured around how the firm wants to evolve, not the spreadsheet that grew up around it. Most partnerships outgrow their original deed; we help redraft them deliberately rather than by accident.

Conditions A, B and C in practice — what they mean for newly promoted members, how to evidence the position, and how to restructure capital and decision-making so the result reflects intent rather than accident.

Law firms operating under the SRA Accounts Rules, surveyors under RICS client-money rules and others under equivalent professional regimes — we deliver the assurance reports and the practical client-money advice the regulators expect.