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More than lawyers and accountants. Oury Clark makes your life simpler by having all of the professional services that you need to set up in the UK in one place. 
We’ve been helping businesses, families and individuals with their tax, legal and financial affairs for more than 85 years. We provide a flexible combination of professional services. Our team works together as a family to cut through the jargon to present simplified, straightforward advice across:

• International expansion. 
• Corporate set up. 
• Visas, people, HR and benefits. 
• Commercial property. 
• Intellectual property. 
• Corporate finance and raising money. 
• Corporate reporting. 
• Tax. 
• Financial, bookkeeping and accounting software. 
• Financial and accountancy outsourcing services. 
• Recruitment.

Blick Rothenberg is a leading tax, accounting and business advisory firm, founded on personal integrity and technical expertise. The firm has a rich history and more than 80 years’ experience in advising groups on international expansion into the UK and using the UK as a platform for growth into other regions (EMEA, AsiaPac).

Each year, it acts for 50-plus companies setting up in the UK. It offers full-service support from a tax and accounting perspective, whether its advising the corporate entity, individual shareholder/founder or international mobile employees. It brings valuable experience and connections to the network and act as trusted advisor to groups. 

RSM is a leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services for global businesses. RSM operates in 120 countries, to support businesses expanding into the UK and international markets.

Entering the UK market for the first time can be challenging. The RSM UK team helps mitigate any potential risks and identify opportunities. Its experienced team has been working with inbound businesses for many years.

A significant portion of RSM's clientele are internationally headquartered. These parent companies vary in size from pre-profit startups to publicly listed firms.

It operates across a range of industries, from established ones, such as real estate, technology and media and manufacturing, to emerging industries, including natural resources, life sciences and gaming.

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in 42 countries, the firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals.

Meridian helps companies overcome the barriers commonly faced when expanding into new markets. Leveraging its partner's (Ebury Partners) global transactional banking network, electronic business accounts enable clients to send, collect and exchange funds internationally without the need for multiple bank accounts or any local presence.  

Accounts can be set up in days and on a fully remote basis, enabling clients to become operational in the UK quickly and easily. There are no requirements to have UK-based directors/owners or trading history within the UK. The platform employs advanced security technology, with funds fully protected and segregated with Ebury at Tier 1 banks as per FCA regulations.  

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) is a leading professional services firm that offers a comprehensive suite of integrated services, including wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting and outsourcing services. With a global network and more than 130 offices and 8,500-plus employees in the US. CLA’s Global Concierge team acts as a single point of contact to companies entering and expanding in the US. The team provides the core services required to navigate local business, tax, accounting, regulatory landscapes and provides clarity on the variances between a client's home country and the US. This approach allows companies to focus on growth while having seasoned professionals efficiently handle the operational aspects of an expansion. 
 

With more than two decades of experience, IMA's mission is to provide international clients entering the UK market with a hassle-free, cost-effective, and timely landing. IMA offers five key services: 

1. Market Access Consulting: utilising UK experts to help clients understand the UK market and open doors to prospective customers. 
2. Professional Employee Outsourcing (PEO): we employ local staff on clients' behalf, enabling them to start operations in as little as two weeks. 
3. Outsourced HR: managing regulatory paperwork and delivering ongoing support. 
4. Relocation: assisting in home and school searches in London. 
5. Local Director (part-time): supporting clients in establishing and maintaining their UK subsidiary. 

Progress Workplace Solutions has the experience and expertise in the London commercial property and landlord market to offer key advice and support at the early stages of workplace search and negotiations. 

Whether it’s a site survey to confirm the condition of a space or a test fit to confirm that the space will work its client's requirements, Progress Workplace Solutions provides a quick and cost-effective solution. 

As well has having 30 years of experience designing and project managing workplaces throughout London, there are a number of other key areas of support and advice in critical areas it can offer through trusted workplace partners: 

• Site survey.
• Space planning.
• Health and safety.
• Mobile connectivity.
• Permits.
• Workplace wellbeing. 

Parallel helps inbound businesses of all sizes look after their people. Using benefits to help recruit, motivate and retain employees is its specialist skill.

Successful business cultures are supported with carefully put together employee benefit packages. The company works closely with clients from planning to implementation, to outsourced simple admin and ensures that what clients have in place is easy to run from their side and valued and understood by their people. All of this to produce a return on investment for clients.

Some benefits are a legal requirement in the UK, like workplace pensions. Others are optional like medical and health and wellbeing. Parallel knows employees have expectations, so it provides guidance to clients on what  they need to do — and should do. By looking after the physical, mental and financial aspects of employee’s wellbeing, Parallel can help clients achieve their business goals. 

GrantTree accelerates the success of growing businesses by connecting them with research and development (R&D) tax relief, innovation grants, advance funding, and other forms of non-equity financing.  

Over the last 13 years, its team of more than 60 financial consultants, scientists, grants writing specialists and tax experts have secured more than £400m for more than 2,000 UK-based businesses, allowing them to accelerate key investments, commercialise new products and take control of their cashflow.  

Each of GrantTree's services is designed to minimise its client’s time investment, allowing them to focus on what matters most: conducting cutting-edge R&D and taking their company to the next level.

A respected name throughout the UK’s innovation ecosystem, GrantTree is dedicated to building a better future by removing the financial obstacles that prevent technology from elevating our lives.

Doyle Clayton offers legal and advisory support to clients on issues arising in the workplace, and provides realistic and effective solutions on employment, business and personal immigration; and corporate and commercial law issues.  

Its immigration team provides strategic advice to corporate organisations, founders, senior executives and entrepreneurs, helping them to set up and expand in the UK. Doyle Clayton also advise individuals, often in securing long-term immigration permission through to obtaining British citizenship. 

The firm has experience in dealing with most sectors and industries in the UK and its clients include start-ups, SMEs, family-owned businesses, multinational corporates and private individuals. As a result, it can use its substantial experience and industry expertise to advise businesses and private clients on a range of immigration law issues. 

Doyle Clayton works closely with clients to anticipate and respond to legal issues, providing solutions in relation to the toughest and most sensitive of immigration problems.  

Redfern Legal is a boutique law firm based in Covent Garden, London. It is a full service business law firm specialising in foreign direct investment into the UK. It strives to offer practical and commercial solutions to our clients, not complex legal problems. It advises executives, SMEs, and multi-nationals from around the world or around the corner in the following key areas: 

• Immigration: Global talent, entrepreneurs, high-net worth business and family immigration. 
• Employment: share schemes, restrictive covenants, TUPE, redundancy, termination and disciplinary advice, policy handbooks and tribunal actions.
• Corporate: mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance, venture capital/equity finance, secured/debt finance, international joint ventures. 
• Commercial: B2B and B2C transactions, supply, distribution, website terms and conditions (T&Cs), agency and other commercial contracts. 
• Company secretarial: company formation, governance, compliance and registered office service. 
• Intellectual property. 
• Data protection. 
• Dispute resolution. 
• Commercial property. 

Smith Stone Walters is an immigration practice. Its team of highly experienced, multilingual and multicultural specialists is based in global offices in the UK, Germany, Hong Kong, India and the US. Smith Stone Walters understands, manages and supports immigration moves throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.  

Making a difference in people’s lives and livelihoods, not just their immigration, is its purpose. By partnering with Smith Stone Walters, clients receive a friendly, comprehensive immigration service that caters specifically to their individual needs. 

Oury Clark helps make its clients' lives simpler by having all of the professional services they need to set up in the UK in one place. 

The firm has been helping businesses, families and individuals with their tax, legal and financial affairs for more than 85 years. It provides a flexible combination of professional services. The team works together as a family to cut through the jargon to present simplified, straightforward advice across:

• International expansion. 
• Corporate set up. 
• Visas, people, HR and benefits. 
• Commercial property. 
• Intellectual property. 
• Corporate finance and raising money. 
• Corporate reporting. 
• Tax. 
• Financial, bookkeeping and accounting software. 
• Financial and accountancy outsourcing services. 
• Recruitment.

Wilson Sonsini has represented more tech companies on their venture financings, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) than any other law firm globally.

Its London-based team of US and dual US/UK-qualified tech lawyers supports UK/EU startups through their US life cycle — US launch and scaling, US fundraising, US partnerships and US M&A/IPO exit — and facilitates access to the firm’s global network of capital providers, corporates and advisors.

Wilson Sonsini is also the trusted legal counsel to hundreds of developers, entrepreneurs, investors and publishers who are building and launching market-leading gaming experiences around the world. 

Bates Wells is a full-service commercial City law firm. Its core practice areas include corporate and commercial, real estate (including financing), data privacy, public and regulatory, charity and not for profit, dispute resolution, employment and immigration.  

Bates Wells has many longstanding clients who have chosen to work with the firm for several years because of the commitment it shows to their business, its excellent technical reputation, service ethos and commercial and innovative approach to legal problems.

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm, we are widely regarded as the UK and Europe's leading technology, media and communications (TMC) firm. We have been working in the TMC sector for 20-plus years and we advised many of the early pioneers of the Silicon Valley and are active in many technology hubs across the globe.

Our lawyers have experience in working with clients in the disruptive space. Other sectors we serve include life sciences and healthcare, private wealth, real estate, infrastructure and energy. We advise across all legal services and disciplines.  

Our clients range from startups to some of the largest technology and media companies. Many have been clients of the firm since their inception. From seed stage to IPO, and from startup to unicorn, we can support companies throughout their lifecycle. We also act for investors: early-stage funds, large international venture capital firms, corporate investors and sovereign wealth funds. 

Joelson is a commercially focused law firm founded in 1956. Its goal is to provide first class, proactive, partner-led legal advice with an in-depth commercial understanding of its clients' relevant business sector. Using in-depth sector knowledge to evaluate the legal issues and challenges facing its clients, it evolves and adapts with clients and the way they do business. 

Joelson covers consumer, technology and hospitality businesses, as it is passionate about helping founders and entrepreneurs who love what they do, from their very first investment round through to exit and everything in-between, such as intellectual property, manufacturing, partnership agreements and employment issues.  

Potter Clarkson is a leading full-service intellectual property (IP) law firm with one of the largest life sciences teams in Europe. Its internationally recognised experts protect innovation involving pharma, biotech, digital therapeutics (DTx) and medtech, and its IP solicitors reinforce IP rights with the licensing and other commercial agreements needed to monetise your business.

The company helps businesses maximise the value of their innovation. It helps to identify, protect, exploit and enforce businesses IP, starting with the creation of the IP strategy needed to drive business forward and make companies as attractive as possible to potential investors.

VWV is a top-ranked full-service law firm offering expert advice on a wide range of legal areas:

• Corporate law: M&A, investments, shareholders and joint ventures.
• Commercial services: contracts, intellectual property and data protection.
• Employment law and immigration.
• Dispute resolution.
• Tax.
• Real estate: including construction and planning.

VWV supports individuals who own or manage businesses, including international businesses expanding from overseas. Known for their work with entrepreneurial and fast growing enterprises - disruptors and innovators alike. The firm brings a blend of legal expertise, genuine teamwork and a commitment to client success, and are seen as an extension of its clients' businesses.

The firm's sector-focused approach fosters long-term relationships and a deep understanding of client needs. VWV specialises in pharmaceuticals and life sciences, technology, healthcare, charities and education, with particular expertise in R&D agreements, manufacturing, supply chain and distribution, digital health, medtech, biopharma, diagnostics, cleantech and other tech and associated services.

As an international growth agency, Bridgehead specialises in assisting scaleups in their journey to enter the UK market. 

Many businesses opt for London as their gateway to the UK. Bridgehead's established relationships with channel partners in both B2B and B2C sectors ensure a seamless and rapid entry into this competitive market. It also empowers scaleups to conquer new markets in Europe, Australasia and North America. 

Bridgehead develops go-to-market strategies. With tested blueprints and methodologies, it can accelerate its clients' market entry, helping them secure business wins by delivering measurable results — all within 90 days.  

Furthermore, it offers value-added distribution services, providing fulfilment solutions that cater to customers of all sizes, from various countries and industries. Bridgehead's solutions enable brands to tap into a diverse array of European retailers, trade partners and online sales channels. 

Deel is the all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams. It helps companies simplify every aspect of managing an international workforce, from culture and onboarding, to local payroll and compliance. Deel works for independent contractors and full-time employees in more than 150 countries, compliantly. And getting set up takes just a few minutes.

Propel has been supporting high growth venture capital and private equity backed technology businesses with recruitment for more than 25 years, often working alongside them through rounds of funding as they scale in UK and Internationalising. A core focus for Propel has been helping businesses scale into Europe, in particular Dublin, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Paris. 

Over the years, It has been trusted by International embassies, government bodies and expansion partners to support their representative businesses that land in the UK and need "first boots on the ground" and further go-to-market support.  

Propel has a trusted and experienced team of specialist recruiters that aligns with its clients departments: commercial, marketing, technology, product, operations and executive search.  

TwentyAI is a technology and data company that provides a “total talent solution” across Europe and the US. Its vision is to unite the power of people, data and technology to transform how companies grow, scale and diversify. 

TwentyAI can support with talent sourcing for specialist hires on a permanent or contract basis; retained search for senior or critical hires; project delivery of multiple hires; and EOR and PEO solutions to facilitate US market entry and scale across every state with full compliance, HR, benefits, accounting and tax support.

It removes complexity and employment risk from the US market. Discounted services through its proprietary technology platforms to closed groups of companies (specifically VC and PE backed businesses), including additional data analytics to support hiring decisions.

First Office Hub is an established London-based agency providing its clients with access to hot desks, dedicated desks and private offices inside serviced office environments to customised managed solution spaces in dedicated office buildings. 

With a personalised and hands on approach, it helps customers find ideal office solutions that help meet their criteria for today’s working world. First Office Hub understands and appreciates that everyone's requirements have changed and that the demands of staff are moving towards a more flexible workplace. 

A space that affords a unique environment helps attract talent, encourages people to return to work, and hopefully helps reduce overhead and costs. First Office Hub partners with more than 400 providers with nearly 6,000 locations.

HBC was established in 2008 to serve the occupier and purchaser of commercial property throughout London and the south east.  Its clients vary in size, type and location and include The Embassy of Poland, Saab Aerospace, Houzz, the Queensland Government, TransferWise, GoCardless and many others. 

Its role is to keep the property costs incurred by clients to an absolute minimum, whether by advising on the leasing of new premises and establishing the economic benefits of securing short or long lease terms, through to lease renewals, rent reviews and general assessment of current costs to establish where savings might be made. Advice is available for those with retail requirements, and it also specialises in sourcing and negotiating serviced offices. 

The practice is run and owned by two directors who between them have more than 70 years of experience in the commercial property market, supported by expert staff in building surveying, rating and property marketing/research. 

Since 2011, Stoneway has been providing simple, conflict-free advice to London’s occupiers looking to align their growth plans and business strategy with their office space needs. From acquiring shorter-term flexible offices to more traditional leased offices and freehold purchases, the company covers it all with the occupier’s best interests at heart. Its sole focus is finding the best office space available at the best market terms for its occupier clients.

Stoneway is defined by its core values of being impartial, passionate and experienced. Its client relationships are built on providing advice from the top level of its organisation.

USP London is a central London commercial property advisor. It assists clients in their search for property across London. Whether it’s serviced or conventional space that is required, it can help find the ideal solution. USP's team members are Chartered Surveyors and provide professional advice on all aspects of property needs including leasing, investment and development.  

USP operates from offices in Borough Market, next to London Bridge station. It also has offices in Victoria and Midtown under sister brands, Tuckerman.co.uk and Farebrother.co.uk. 

It acts for many of the major UK property companies and funds such as LandSec and CBREGi as well as corporate tenants seeking space. USP specialises in offices, leisure and retail, but also advises on industrial and logistics space in London and the south east. 

In addition, USP assists with queries on property issues, especially from incoming overseas companies who may need advice on the planning, rating and property tax regimes.  

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