Professional Service Firms

We are specialist advisor's to professional services firms ranging from small partnerships to large corporations. Whilst we act and have acted for a number of clients across the professions (including surveyors, estate agents and accountants) we have a market-leading reputation in advising legal practices and architects, engineers and design practices.

We believe we have a unique approach to working with our professional services clients which sets us apart. Our Partners and Managers who work in the sector, all share a common passion and desire to both understand the uniqueness of a client’s culture and market position and then to deliver a bespoke, outstanding and personal service. Unlike most of our large firm competitors, our advice is Partner-led and grounded in pragmatism.

Our advisory-led services include:

Business reviews and strategies for profit improvement and growth
Benchmarking and peer comparison
Reward Planning for Partners and Directors
Succession Planning
LLP’s, Shared-ownership schemes and alternative models
Strategic Planning and Business Planning
Improving Practice Management.

How We Can Help

The breadth and depth of our expertise allows us to offer a broad range of services.

Our Professional Service Firms Expertise

Architects

Whilst Architects and Engineers share some traits with other professions and industries, the challenges they face are often quite different. Specialist knowledge combined with long-term planning can help to ensure sustainable profits and strong cash flow, the hallmark of a successful practice.

Lawyers

As the legal market becomes ever more competitive, choosing the right external advisor's has never been more important. We are more than just accountants; we are expert advisor's, giving advice that is always proactive, knowledgeable and practical.

Succession Planning

Perhaps the single most challenging long-term issue for any small or medium-sized professional services firm, whether an architects practice, engineering consultancy or similar, is defining its future.

Ecovis Wingrave Yeats provided us with a refreshed view of our existing financial data, which both clarified and simplified our approach to budget setting and financial management. With clearly defined and accessible high level financial data, this will provide the Board key data to support business decisions and growth strategy. As a result of our experience and delivery from Ecovis our financial data is now visible to the key stakeholders in the business. As a client, the experience was extremely positive and we worked closely together with input on both sides in evolving the dashboards to their live version which we are extremely pleased with taking us to the next level of live financial data and reporting.

Shaun O’Halloran Partner , Royds Withy King