ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING (SSF) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-01-31 (in 8mo)
Last filed for 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-21 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-07
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£363K
+153.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£312K
-85.5% vs 2024
Employees
519
+11.6% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
+22.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING (SSF) LIMITED 2024-05-01 → present
- ALLEN & OVERY (SSF) LIMITED 2010-12-07 → 2024-05-01
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-04-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £48,157,629 | £58,133,584 | |
| Operating profit | £3,151,725 | £3,751,843 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,943,461 | £3,608,864 | |
| Net profit | £2,157,576 | £2,730,073 | |
| Cash | £143,400 | £363,341 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,883,023 | £5,827,992 | |
| Net assets | £2,157,577 | £312,172 | |
| Equity | £2,157,577 | £312,172 | |
| Average employees | 465 | 519 | |
| Wages | £26,323,246 | £31,624,569 |
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 | 2024-04-30 | 2025-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 6.5% | 6.5% | |
| Net margin | 4.5% | 4.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 40.0% | 64.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 86.3% | 97.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.10x | 0.98x | |
| Interest cover | 14.51x | 11.78x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors believe that preparing the financial statements on the going concern basis is appropriate due to the continued financial support of the company's ultimate parent, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP. The directors have received confirmation that Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP intends to support the company for a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements.”
Group structure
- ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING (SSF) LIMITED · parent
- Allen Overy Shearman Sterling Service GmbH 100%
Significant events
- “On 1 May 2024 the company changed its name from Allen & Overy (SSF) Limited to Allen Overy Shearman Sterling (SSF) Limited.”
- “On 12 August 2024, the company signed an addendum to the existing lease with the landlord which included a rent-free period of nine months to April 2025, which resulted in the reduction of cash outflow for leases in the financial year to 30 April 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL-GAROUSHA, Khalid Soleiman | Director | 2024-05-01 | Nov 1971 | British |
| BRAMMER, Andrew | Director | 2013-06-11 | Mar 1971 | British |
| EKUÉ, Hervé Roland Adade | Director | 2024-05-01 | Jan 1972 | French |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCALLUM, Heather | Secretary | 2010-12-09 | 2014-01-08 |
| ALNERY INCORPORATIONS NO. 1 LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2010-12-07 | 2010-12-09 |
| BALLHEIMER, Andrew Mark | Director | 2016-05-01 | 2020-04-30 |
| DEJONGHE, Willem Michel Georges Clara | Director | 2010-12-09 | 2024-04-30 |
| MORLEY, David Howard | Director | 2010-12-09 | 2016-04-30 |
| MORRIS, Craig Alexander James | Director | 2010-12-07 | 2010-12-09 |
| PRICE, Gareth David | Director | 2020-05-01 | 2023-07-10 |
| ALNERY INCORPORATIONS NO. 1 LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2010-12-07 | 2010-12-09 |
| ALNERY INCORPORATIONS NO. 2 LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2010-12-07 | 2010-12-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peerpoint Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 54 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-05-01 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-01 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2024-05-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-03-03 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2021-12-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-12-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2020-12-11 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2020-11-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-04-30 vs 2024-04-30
-
Turnover
+20.7%
£48,157,629 £58,133,584
-
Cash
+153.4%
£143,400 £363,341
-
Net assets
-85.5%
£2,157,577 £312,172
-
Employees
+11.6%
465 519
-
Operating profit
+19%
£3,151,725 £3,751,843
-
Profit before tax
+22.6%
£2,943,461 £3,608,864
-
Wages
+20.1%
£26,323,246 £31,624,569
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