Each office grew out of the businesses around it

Our founding clients were family firms, and many of today’s are run by the second or third generation we have worked with. We understand that the business, the family and the tax affairs are tangled together, and that the hardest conversations are rarely about the numbers.

Succession is our core skill: deciding who takes over, when, on what terms, and how to keep everyone speaking to each other afterwards.

All offices · Led by Fenella Garside

Our Sheffield office began with the client list of Gordon Hepworth, who spent forty years acting for the city’s toolmakers, cutlers and engineers. We still work with fabricators, precision engineers and subcontract machine shops across South Yorkshire.

We know about stock valuation, capital allowances on plant, tight margins on long contracts, and what to do when the founder owns the building as well as the business.

Sheffield · Led by Tobias Ackroyd

We act for farming families and landowners across the Dales and the Vale of York. The work is mostly about time: farms pass between generations slowly, and the tax rules change faster than they do.

We help with farming partnerships, diversification into holiday lets and energy, and succession plans rebuilt around the 2026 changes to agricultural and business property relief.

Leeds · Led by Callum Brierley

Our Manchester office came to us in 2009 through Ashworth Pike, a small practice that acted for design studios and agencies. Today it also looks after games studios and software companies.

The questions are different: R&D tax relief, share options for staff, the first outside investment, and income that arrives in lumps. We are careful with R&D claims, because a claim that is wrong becomes an investor’s problem later.

Manchester · Led by Priya Raghavan-Hale and Simon Ashby

Bakeries, breweries, a cheesemaker and a few restaurant groups. They share thin margins, perishable stock, seasonal cash flow, and VAT rules that change depending on whether the food is hot.

Leeds and Sheffield

Food banks, youth clubs, village halls and community trusts, often run by volunteers. We prepare their accounts, help treasurers set up simple systems, and write things down so the next treasurer can carry on.

Leeds · Led by Delphine Okafor-Lund