DAVIES AND PARTNERS SOLICITORS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-03 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£49K
+135.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£3M
+5.2% vs 2023
Employees
146
-3.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£758K
-37.3% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- DAVIES AND PARTNERS SOLICITORS LIMITED 2016-09-29 → present
- DAVIES AND PARTNERS SOLICITORS 2016 LIMITED 2016-09-20 → 2016-09-29
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 | £9,920,254 | £10,540,393 | |
| Operating profit | £966,611 | £502,297 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,208,738 | £757,718 | |
| Net profit | £923,545 | £568,288 | |
| Cash | £20,715 | £48,800 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £3,913,720 | £3,598,019 | |
| Net assets | £3,021,917 | £3,179,446 | |
| Equity | £3,021,917 | £3,179,446 | |
| Average employees | 151 | 146 | |
| Wages | £5,228,841 | £5,553,707 |
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 | 9.7% | 4.8% | |
| Net margin | 9.3% | 5.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 24.7% | 14.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 56.2% | 52.0% | |
| Current ratio | 2.19x | 2.08x | |
| Interest cover | 6.78x | 2.18x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors believe there are no material uncertainties that call into account the Company's ability to continue as a going concern and the accounts have therefore been prepared on the basis that the Company is a going concern.”
Significant events
- “In February 2024 the Company acquired the assets, clients, and staff of Iacopi Palmer Limited.”
- “In September 2024 the Company acquired the assets, clients, and staff of Guy Clapham & Co in London's West End.”
- “Organic growth has been stimulated in several practice areas with the appointment of new Department Heads in the Family, Clinical Negligence, Court of Protection and Energy practice groups.”
- “During the financial year the Company moved offices in Birmingham.”
- “Investments have been made in IT with the Company undertaking a review of IT provision during the financial year and undertaking a programme of improvement of IT infrastructure that has continued beyond year end.”
- “Since year end, the addition of Contentious Probate as a new specialist practice area.”
- “The Company entered new property lease arrangements in London and in Birmingham.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COMPTON, Kirsten Louise | Director | 2022-01-01 | Dec 1978 | British |
| KILGOUR, Ewan Macdonald | Director | 2018-05-09 | May 1968 | British |
| LOCKHART, Ewan Thomson | Director | 2016-09-20 | Oct 1964 | British |
| LOWE, Anthony Thomas | Director | 2022-01-01 | Jan 1988 | British |
| STOKES, David Christopher | Director | 2016-09-20 | May 1968 | British |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRENNAN, Thomas Patrick | Director | 2016-09-20 | 2017-12-31 |
| BRIDGE, Anthony Robert | Director | 2025-04-14 | 2025-06-19 |
| TILLOTT, Nigel George | Director | 2016-09-20 | 2023-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rowan Formations Limited | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm | 2016-09-20 | Ceased 2016-09-20 |
| Mr David Christopher Stokes | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-09-20 | Active |
| Mr Ewan Thomson Lockhart | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-09-20 | Active |
| Mr Nigel Tillott | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-09-20 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 43 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-01-22 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-01-22 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-04-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-22 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-01-22 | SH08 | capital | Capital name of class of shares | |
| 2024-01-22 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-10-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-09-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-09-17 | 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
- 1
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
+6.3%
£9,920,254 £10,540,393
-
Cash
+135.6%
£20,715 £48,800
-
Net assets
+5.2%
£3,021,917 £3,179,446
-
Employees
-3.3%
151 146
-
Operating profit
-48%
£966,611 £502,297
-
Profit before tax
-37.3%
£1,208,738 £757,718
-
Wages
+6.2%
£5,228,841 £5,553,707
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