Partner directory

Oury Clark is a multidisciplinary professional services firm with 90 years of experience supporting businesses as they expand internationally. It has a long and proven history of helping global companies establish operations in the UK, offering expert guidance on company formation, tax structuring, legal compliance, visas and more.

With a unique structure that brings accounting, legal, tax and business advisory services together under one roof, Oury Clark provides a seamless and efficient approach to international expansion. Its team understands the challenges businesses face when entering the UK market and is committed to delivering clear, practical solutions that help companies succeed.

If you’re looking to establish a UK presence, Oury Clark is your trusted partner for a smooth and successful transition. Its services include:

• Corporate set up. 
• Visas, people, HR and benefits. 
• Banking assistance and multi-currency business accounts.
• Commercial property. 
• Intellectual property. 
• Corporate finance and raising money. 
• Corporate reporting and company secretary.
• Tax. 
• Financial, bookkeeping and accounting software. 
• Financial and accountancy outsourcing services. 
• Recruitment.
• ESG.

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. 

BPM is a full service accounting, tax and advisory firm with a focus on international businesses and supporting their growth in new markets.

The firm has a people first approach to partnering with clients and the international expansion ecosystem, providing a one-stop-shop solution to companies entering the UK market. The full suite of services includes entity formation, payroll and HR, tax planning and compliance, bookkeeping and financial reporting and audit.

BPM has more than 1,200 colleagues globally and is a top 35 firm in the US meaning it has global experience and big firm quality but hands-on, people-focused approach to partnering with you as you enter the UK.

Its UK partners have built a team of dedicated foreign direct investment specialists who put you first, guide you through the process, and have the ability to seamlessly support your business cross-border both in the US and UK.

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. 
 

HSBC Innovation Banking provides commercial banking services, expertise and insights to the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital industries. HSBC Innovation Banking UK is a subsidiary of HSBC Group, benefiting from its stability, strong credit rating and international reach. The HSBC Innovation Banking team can help accelerate global growth by connecting entrepreneurs into their innovation hubs in markets all over the world – with dedicated teams for their clients.

NatWest is one of the UK’s biggest banking organisations, serving more than 19 million customers with everything from everyday banking to retail, commercial and private banking. Like London & Partners, NatWest is committed to helping businesses grow, and share its ambition to create economic growth that is resilient, inclusive and sustainable. Together, London & Partners and NatWest are working on strengthening connections between entrepreneurs, supporting them as their businesses expand and sparking important conversations about what’s driving growth in London.

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. 

IMA works across all sectors but with a particular focus on tech of all types. Historically, most of IMA’s clients have come from North America, but increasingly clients are coming from across Europe and China. 

GoGlobal is a leading expansion services company that guides, establishes and manages international expansion for businesses, from setup to operations with compliance and confidence.

GoGlobal's comprehensive suite of business and corporate services enables businesses to recruit and hire globally, drive their expansion into new markets and optimise local operations.

GoGlobal is present in more than 140 countries on six continents and growing.

Business and corporate services provided:

• Entity solutions: entity establishment, corporate secretarial and directorship services, domicile services, dormancy/liquidation.
• HR solutions: global recruitment, employer of record (EOR), agent of record (AOR), global benefits, global payroll, international HR consulting.
• Finance solutions: accounting and tax compliance.

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. 

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. 

With 84 offices in 49 countries and a team or more than 6,300 lawyers worldwide, CMS combines in-depth local market knowledge with a truly global outlook.

As a future facing firm, CMS embraces a bold, dynamic and agile approach, empowering clients of all sizes to navigate the future with confidence. Its sector-led strategy means it possesses exceptional insight into industries in which it operates, with lawyers equipped to address today's challenges and anticipate tomorrow's opportunities.

Within this context, the CMS equIP programme stands out as a leading technology-focused scaleup initiative. Launched in 2017, equIP is designed to support innovative startups with robust intellectural property assets across more than 30 jurisdictions. Through equIP, scaleups benefit from discounted legal services, tailored mentorship and access to CMS' extensive international network of industry leaders, investors and entrepreneurs.

Winston Taylor is a transatlantic law firm present in major commercial centres. Its team of more than 1,400 lawyers has deep legal experience and rich tech sector knowledge. Winston Taylor supports the world's innovators and their investors at every stage of growth, from funding rounds and strategic mergers and acquisitions, to IPOs and beyond.

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.

Brand Murray Fuller (BMF) is a full-service intellectual property law firm specialising in the protection, management and defence of UK, European and worldwide IP rights, as well as the handling of disputes and transactions relating to such rights. BMF's expertise covers a wide range of technologies but its sector focus is towards life sciences, biotech, industrial chemistry and green tech.

The firm assists clients in identifying and securing IP protection (including both patent and trade mark rights), as well as implementing strategies to enable product launches and to leverage existing IP. In addition, the company regularly handles IP disputes and provides support in other IP-rich projects such as development, licensing, due diligence, joint ventures, commercial agreements, acquisition, manufacturing and other outsourcing arrangements.

BMF therefore helps its clients to achieve their commercial goals on time and within budget, with a professional and pragmatic outlook.

Edwin Coe is a leading London law firm with a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice with a personal, partner-led approach. The firm has been advising individuals, businesses and organisations for more than a century, combining deep technical expertise with a clear focus on practical and commercial outcomes.

Edwin Coe has extensive experience working with clients across a broad range of sectors. Key areas served include immigration, employment, corporate and commercial law, real estate, intellectual property, banking and finance, tax, litigation and dispute resolution and private client matters.

The Immigration team, which is ranked in various leading legal directories, provides tailored advice to both domestic and overseas businesses, as well as individuals, on navigating the UK’s complex immigration framework. Its clients range from entrepreneurs, founders and growing businesses to established companies and high-net-worth individuals.

The team can assist on all UK immigration and nationality matters, supporting clients at every stage, providing clear, responsive and trusted legal guidance.

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. 

With is a London-based international B2B PR and digital marketing agency with deep expertise in business technology and professional services. 

From ambitious scaleups to established multinationals, it helps its clients raise awareness, drive demand and manage reputation through smart, strategic communications.

Its sector expertise spans fintech, cyber, enterprise tech, creative services, sustainability and life sciences. All its awards-winning services are designed to get clients to their future, faster from sharp messaging and standout media relations to crisis support, LinkedIn leadership and high-impact owned content.

With is a truly collaborative team with a collaborative approach to client work. It partners with clients to truly understand their businesses, and craft marketing and communications campaigns to support them on their path to the future.

KPMG is one of the world’s leading professional services firms, operating across audit, tax and advisory.

Its Emerging Giants team supports ambitious, high-growth UK scaleups, helping founders and leadership teams overcome the challenges of scaling.

They also work closely with KPMG’s Venture Fundraising team, who specialise in Series A, B, growth and secondary fundraising, offering deep expertise across the business lifecycle. 

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.

Alderson James Group is a specialised boutique recruitment consultancy dedicated to hiring top talent across people, talent, executive and go-to-market (GTM) positions. Based in London, Alderson James (AJ) partners with global organisations, supporting growth for the startup and scaleup ecosystems.

Alderson James offers versatile hiring solutions for evolving business needs, including AJ FLX for scaling people and talent teams, AJ GTMX for building on-demand GTM teams, AJ Exec for sourcing transformative leaders in tech, product, growth, commercial and finance, and AJ Hire for permanent, contract and temporary hiring in the people and talent sector. Its solutions efficiently adapt to the demands of a rapidly emerging market.

Through its innovative approach and deep industry expertise, Alderson James is committed to driving sustainable growth and success for its clients in an ever-evolving landscape.

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.  

CPL Life Sciences uses its expertise in life science staffing to connect employers with exceptional talent. Its services are flexible, scalable and efficient, helping to drive growth and success in ambitious companies, whether they are big pharmaceuticals or small biotech startups.

CPL Life Sciences has an acute understanding of all life sciences functions across a range of pharmaceutical disciplines, including clinical, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, commercial, medical affairs, medical communications, scientific and engineering.

CPL Life Sciences is an award-winning staffing agency with a strong commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI) and sustainability. Its mission is to be the UK’s best sustainable talent partner across all its core markets, adding meaningful value to the lives of its clients, candidates and colleagues. 

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.

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.

Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate group with operations in Australia, Asia, Europe and the US. It creates places where communities thrive.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, Lendlease has approximately 7,800 employees globally.

Lendlease's core capabilities are reflected in three operating segments: Investments, Development and Construction. The combination of these three segments ensures a sustainable competitive advantage in delivering innovative integrated solutions for its customers.

CBRE helps businesses grow in London and around the world. It knows that starting out or preparing for growth means that you'll be looking for the best location for your talent and flexibility to grow in the right way.

From accessing top talent to getting the best space for the right price, managing your data footprint safely and realising your sustainability goals, CBRE is here to leverage your real estate to provide competitive edge for your organisation, both now and in the future.

Its global knowledge, comprehensive analytics, connected professionals and integrated services mean CBRE can show you how.

Mphasis is an AI-led, platform-driven company with human-in-the-loop intelligence, helping global enterprises modernise, infuse AI and scale with agility. The Mphasis.ai unit and Mphasis AI-powered "Tribes" are focused on client outcomes and embed artificial intelligence and autonomy into every layer of the enterprise technology and process stack.

Mphasis built NeoIP™, a breakthrough AI platform that orchestrates a powerful pack of AI solutions and platforms to deliver impactful outcomes across the enterprise IT value chain. Mphasis NeoIP™ is powered by the Ontosphere, a dynamic and ever-evolving knowledge base, delivering continuous and constant innovation through perpetual intelligent engineering – driving end-to-end enterprise transformation.

Central to the company's approach is customer-centricity – reflected in its proprietary Front2Back™ transformation framework, which uses the exponential power of cloud and cognitive to deliver hyper-personalised digital experiences and build strong relationships with marquee clients. Its service transformation solutions enable enterprises to pivot from legacy systems and operations to secure, adaptive, cloud-first operating models with minimal disruption. Continuous investments in platforms, such as the Neo series, enable enterprises to stay efficient, relevant and ahead in a dynamic AI-first world.