Our ethos

We aim to provide the best impartial professional advice to our clients and stakeholders, and our ethos is centred around five simple but very important values.

1. Credible

   Our business has been built on our reputation.

   We are a top ten national owner-managed independent business recovery firm, offering a specialist alternative to the larger national accounting firms, for those who prefer our personal approach and cost effective partner-led service.

   With offices in London, Hampshire and Dorset, our directors are key figures in our profession and within their local business communities.

2. Successful

   We aim to be personally & collectively successful, ensuring that we offer the best service possible.

   We undertake in excess of 100 formal corporate business recovery appointments each year, the vast majority of which achieve a continuing business.

   When things get out of hand, we are able to assist individuals to restructure their personal borrowing to manageable levels through formal, legitimate and legal arrangements with creditors’ consent.

   Behind the scenes we undertake around 200 informal advisory assignments, helping businesses and individuals overcome short term financial difficulties.

   Each year through our inclusive approach, we benefit thousands of directors, creditors, customers and employees who would otherwise suffer.

   We are well respected and have strong relationships within the business, banking and creditor community, as well as local and national departments within HMRC.

3. Dynamic

   Our staff are committed and continue to contribute to the development of the rescue culture within the business recovery profession.

   We are at the forefront of developments within our field through our contribution on a national level to the development of government policy, and the law and practice relating to business rescue.

   Because our directors have a ‘hands on’ approach, we have a personal interest in making sure every case receives our personal attention and dedication to achieve a positive outcome.

   Our directors are individually empowered and able to make decisions, using the full resources of the company to achieve a successful outcome.

4. Efficient

   We do not over engineer a situation to unnecessarily increase the professional costs.

   We are continually investing in our staff and infrastructure to ensure that bureaucracy and back office paperwork do not stand in the way of practical solutions.

   Using our experience, we can identify key issues and respond quickly. Each case is overseen by a director who liaises directly with support staff - eliminating layers of unproductive management.

   Our established presence ensures that our case management systems are tried and tested and constantly updated.

   We have invested in an IT infrastructure that allows all our staff to work on any case regardless of geographic boundaries, thereby avoiding down time.

5. Approachable

   To enable us to deliver a ‘hands on’ service, we make ourselves accessible and available to those who need to contact us.

   All our directors and senior staff are easily contactable through direct line and mobile phone numbers, and through personal email addresses.

   The service we offer is specialist; we do not have a general accounting practice, so do not compete with existing accountants, tax or financial advisors, an important consideration when a continuing business is likely.

   We are happy to meet with and provide guidance or expert advice to other professional advisors and those seeking our assistance without obligation.