Built Around Growing Businesses
Accounts and Legal is a UK-based firm providing a fully integrated finance and legal function for growing businesses, covering everything from day-to-day compliance and tax planning through to forecasting, growth plans and acquisition support. We work alongside our clients as they grow, with a team of qualified accountants, legal specialists and experienced advisers supporting them along the way.
How it started
It began with an idea. After a working in private equity, Neil Nichols successfully grew took number of businesses from inception through to sale, one of which started with a few employees and grew to over 200. During this time, Neil was struck by how bad high street accountants were at helping small businesses do anything useful with their accounts.
A lot of effort went into producing annual accounts, but analysing data over a year old was useless.
Neil set out to make accountancy useful, with a focus on business plans, real-time and forward-looking data. And by using the data more intelligently (and combining it with some clever technology), forecasting and cashflow modeling needed to be baked into the proposition.
And so, Accounts and Legal was born.
One of the only firms in the UK offering accountancy and legal services, all under one roof.
A firm set up to provide everything entrepreneurs could ever need in one place.
What then
The team celebrating winning Xero Large Firm of the Year 2023
2015
Working from the leaky-roofed London office, the team set out on their journey to break new ground in the world of accountancy. Accounts and Legal went from 0 to 100 inquiries in a month, and we’ve grown at more than 20% every year since.
2016
Following the success of the London office, 2016 saw the opening of the Brighton office. The hard work soon started drawing attention, as Accounts and Legal were shortlisted for ‘Start-up of the Year’ at the Accountancy Age and became one of the first UK firms to be recognised as a platinum Xero accountant.
2019
Then came the Legal part of the puzzle. So, with the help of Rachel Duncan as Legal Director, Accounts and Legal became licensed by the Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority to offer corporate, commercial and employment legal advice. We think we are still the only small business accounting firm to offer both accounting and legal services under one (leaky) roof.
2020
In 2020, Accounts and Legal decided it was finally time to give the northerners with the opening of the Manchester office.
2021
Inspired by the Manchester office, it was time for Accounts and Legal to take a trip to Merseyside. 2021 saw the opening of the Liverpool office to prove that northerners can be trusted.
2022
We entered award season with a bang, being shortlisted for 4 separate awards and taking home “Team of the Year” at the Northwest Business Insider Young Professionals Awards.
2023
And we topped it all off by wining Xero large firm of the year in 2023. This was also the year that we launched our HR offering, meaning we can help our clients more than ever!
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What a business needs from finance and legal tends to change over time. Early on, the focus is usually on getting the basics right, compliance, structure and keeping things in order. As the business grows, the focus shifts to visibility. Better reporting, clearer numbers and more confidence in how things are performing. Beyond that, it becomes more about planning and control, supporting decisions, managing growth and dealing with more complex legal and financial considerations. The support changes as the business grows, but the structure stays consistent.
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