Solutions

Solutions to help your business grow

Whilst the current reforms, regulations and legal changes apply to all practices across the UK, we recognise that law firms will continue to remain diverse and distinctly unique. We are already helping clients derive value for money through new initiatives, new thinking, innovation, and a focus on infrastructure, assets and people.

We are an experienced advisor on partnership mergers and on the implications of limited liability partnerships' incorporation and hybrid LLPs, as well as other broader aspects of risk management, financial management and partnership tax. With this in mind, we offer bespoke solutions for our clients, tailoring our services to meet your individual practice objectives.

We work towards forming long-term relationships with our clients. Our legal team delivers integrated advice on business planning, accounting, audit and assurance, tax and finance. Delivered as solutions built specifically to your needs, we offer advice in the following service areas:

Tax and VAT advice

We help you maximise available tax relief through the use of tax structure planning, minimise tax exposure and streamline administration for tax returns, tax provisions, partners’ tax payments, enquiries and investigations and PAYE settlement agreements.
We can help you consider the full impact of VAT at all stages of your development, from initial requirement through to internal restructurings, acquisitions, overseas expansion and disposals of parts of the business.

Business advice

As an LLP, we are well placed to advise on the financial, tax and business implications of LLP conversion. We have been involved as lead advisors on many conversions and have a tried and tested roadmap to help firms through the process. We also advise on the other options available to you, including alternative business structures.
This may take the form of a bespoke profitability review, Consideration of a practice’s gearing ratio or a broader benchmarking exercise. We are well placed to help you meaningfully compare your practice with others of a similar size.
We can give you an honest assessment of your practice, providing you with advice on your profit and loss projections, cash flow forecasts, balance sheets and return on investment, giving you peace of mind about the shape of your business model. We will always suggest practical recommendations to improve performance and reduce business risk. We can help you to regularly compare your achievements with your business plan and adjust your business methods or the plan, so that you know where you are going, how you are going to achieve it and when.
We advise on cash flow planning to ensure effective management of partner drawings and cash flow for the practice as a whole.
We can discuss the merits of performance-related pay, fixed equity shares and other ways of rewarding and retaining employees.
Our payroll services ensure that employees are paid on time every month. By outsourcing your payroll to Menzies, you remove the need to recruit, retain and train specialist staff or purchase specialist software, saving you money and reducing risk.

Menzies can provide you with leading edge advice and practical support when choosing the best accounting systems for your business. We have the capability to evaluate the systems you currently use and offer our recommendations for improvement. By doing this, we can work to ensure that your practice is functioning at its operational best.
By can advise you on business valuations, mergers, acquisitions and disposals we can help save you precious time and money finding and negotiating the right deal.

We advise on refinancing or restructuring loans and we prepare business cases to help you secure additional funds. Besides assisting you with the financial forecast we can advise on the most tax efficient manner for you to raise your share of the investment funds.
We can reduce the risk and cost of international commerce by understanding the tax issues, introducing you to reliable overseas advisers and implementing a plan that meets your goals and timescales.
We advise on the full range of exit options using sophisticated tax structures to help protect your wealth by assisting in the business valuation and the planning of your personal tax and investments.
We can help you enhance your personal wealth. This could include your share in the practice, personal investments, trusts, land and property.
We provide our clients with access to independent financial planning advice, including income protection, critical-illness cover, retirement planning, investment advice and savings plans.

Compliance and assurance

As well as full statutory year-end financial statements, we can provide you with monthly or quarterly management accounts and assistance with the preparation of budgets and projections.
We believe an audit should have the highest integrity and add value by giving an honest assessment of your business. We always strive to deliver an audit that gives you a clear insight in to any shortcomings with recommendations and practical suggestions for improving business and its performance.