HARBOURVEST PARTNERS (U.K.) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-28 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£12M
+30.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£13M
+86.8% vs 2023
Employees
163
+10.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£8M
+65.6% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- HARBOURVEST PARTNERS (U.K.) LIMITED 1997-10-02 → present
- HANCOCK INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE EQUITY MANAGEMENT LTD. 1990-11-08 → 1997-10-02
- JOHN HANCOCK VENTURE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED 1990-08-21 → 1990-11-08
- HACKREMCO (NO.593) LIMITED 1990-06-14 → 1990-08-21
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £121,527,640 | £151,554,967 | |
| Operating profit | £5,005,292 | £8,348,687 | |
| Profit before tax | £5,118,481 | £8,473,688 | |
| Net profit | £3,945,657 | £6,606,598 | |
| Cash | £9,249,048 | £12,029,236 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | £7,190,289 | £13,428,444 | |
| Equity | £7,190,289 | £13,428,444 | |
| Average employees | 147 | 163 | |
| Wages | £36,505,527 | £42,738,229 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 4.1% | 5.5% | |
| Net margin | 3.2% | 4.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.29x | 1.25x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and the Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for 12 months from the date these financial statements are. approved. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- HARBOURVEST PARTNERS (U.K.) LIMITED · parent
- HarbourVest Partners (Ireland) Limited 100%
- HarbourVest Partners (Switzerland) GmbH 100%
Significant events
- “On 25 January 2025, HarbourVest Partners (Ireland) Limited signed a lease for a new office. The Company is expected to relocate to the new office in quarter 2 of 2025. It is anticipated that this lease will be classified as an. operating lease for reporting purposes.”
- “On 24 April 2025, the board authorised the payment of a dividend of £5,384,294 (approximately £1.00 per share) in relation, to the year ended 31 December 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIDI, Jonathan | Secretary | 2020-01-06 | — | — |
| ATTERBURY, David Ashley | Director | 2017-04-25 | Oct 1971 | British |
| DU ROY DE BLICQUY, Corentin | Director | 2019-07-01 | Sep 1975 | Belgian |
| ESPINAL, Carolina | Director | 2024-11-22 | Jan 1978 | Honduran |
| TRAER, Mary | Director | 2014-06-20 | Aug 1967 | American |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DU CROS, Harvey William Nicholas | Secretary | 2014-06-16 | 2018-01-23 |
| GREEN, Danielle | Secretary | 2018-01-23 | 2019-06-07 |
| JACK, Ian Andrew | Secretary | 2019-06-08 | 2020-01-06 |
| LEEN, William Joseph | Secretary | — | 1994-08-02 |
| VORLICEK, Martha Dimatteo | Secretary | 1994-08-02 | 2014-06-16 |
| ANSON, George Rupert | Director | 2010-04-14 | 2017-05-10 |
| BACON, Kathleen Marie | Director | 2017-04-25 | 2019-06-30 |
| KANE, Edward Walter | Director | — | 2010-04-14 |
| VORLICEK, Martha Dimatteo | Director | 2010-04-14 | 2014-04-14 |
| WILSON, Peter George | Director | 2017-04-25 | 2024-10-31 |
| ZUG, David Brooks | Director | — | 2017-05-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 129 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-15 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-22 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2025-10-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-07-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-02-13 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-12-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-26 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-01-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-01-10 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-01-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2021-12-01 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2021-11-30 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+24.7%
£121,527,640 £151,554,967
-
Cash
+30.1%
£9,249,048 £12,029,236
-
Net assets
+86.8%
£7,190,289 £13,428,444
-
Employees
+10.9%
147 163
-
Operating profit
+66.8%
£5,005,292 £8,348,687
-
Profit before tax
+65.6%
£5,118,481 £8,473,688
-
Wages
+17.1%
£36,505,527 £42,738,229
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers