STEVENS & BOLTON LLP

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  6 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

S&W Partners Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the members' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Limited Liability Partnership's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. STEVENS & BOLTON LLP · parent
   1. Stevens & Bolton Trustees Limited 100% · England · Non-trading company
   2. S&B Limited 100% · England · Non-trading company

Significant events

• “2024/25 saw the launch of the next stage of our long-term strategic plan.”
• “A record number of lawyers were also provided to our clients' in-house legal teams on secondment, showing the trusted partner relationship the firm has developed with our key clients.”
• “Stevens & Bolton has made a number of significant investments in further building our leadership, legal and business professional teams.”
• “Two more lawyers were promoted to our all-equity Partnership, two Partner lateral hires were completed in the Tax and Commercial Litigation teams, and the firm's Chief Operating Officer was also made an equity partner.”
• “Two new senior leaders in business partnering joined the firm in the period with a new Head of People & Talent and a new head of Business Development & Marketing.”
• “A strong pipeline of talent for the future is another area that has benefitted from additional investment and the firm's trainee programme was again increased to a record high.”
• “In total 20 staff members across our business were promoted in our most recent promotion round.”
• “A new all-staff Career Framework and additional training funding have been launched along with the wider sharing of financial benefits through an updated staff profit sharing pool and a new all-staff performance related bonus scheme.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

20

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

6

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +20%

  £38,765,000 → £46,534,000

• Cash

  +106.5%

  £2,910,000 → £6,009,000

• Net assets

  +23.4%

  £15,545,000 → £19,183,000

• Employees

  +1.7%

  229 → 233

• Operating profit

  +25.5%

  £14,845,000 → £18,626,000

• Profit before tax

  +24.5%

  £15,343,000 → £19,097,000

• Wages

  +15.4%

  £12,334,000 → £14,237,000

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