The parent company of Shakespeare Martineau law firm has seen a 16 per cent rise in revenues 鈥 even before factoring in two recent mergers.
The Ampa group saw turnover hit a record 拢80.4 million for its 21/22 financial year. The Birmingham-based business includes full-service law firm Shakespeare Martineau 鈥 which has offices across the 海角视频, including Leicester, Nottingham, Stratford and Bristol 鈥 consumer champion law firm Lime Solicitors, planning consultancy Marrons Planning, uninsured loss recovery experts Corclaim and cyber security consultancy CSS Assure. The business said profits were also up 16 per cent and was asked to provide figures.
The group said the latest two mergers will extend revenues even further. They are Sussex firm Mayo Wynne Baxter, which joined the group in May, while Bristol-based GL Law will merge into the group鈥檚 Shakespeare Martineau brand later this year. The combined group will have a turnover of more than 拢105 million for the next financial year.
Chief executive Sarah Walker-Smith said: 鈥淚n 2020 we pressed ahead with our plans despite the uncertainty of the pandemic.
鈥淥ur house of brands portfolio provides resilience and sustainability in a volatile and uncertain economic and political landscape. We are looking to change business for good 鈥 benefitting our clients, communities and people with a collaborative and conscious approach to commercial strategy.鈥
The group鈥檚 businesses currently have 18 hubs across the Midlands, South, South East, South West, South Yorkshire and Scotland. In 2021, Ampa said it created more than 190 new roles, made 17 partner hires and promoted more than 30 people across legal and non-legal teams.
The group said it had made no redundancies as result of any of its mergers 鈥 remaining committed to being people-led and doing things differently from typical market consolidators.
Ms Walker-Smith said: 鈥淲hile we are taking our time ensuring that the practicalities of our current mergers work and that our people and clients have room to grow, we are continuing conversations with interested people who are seeking to join one of our existing brands as a 鈥榖olt on鈥 or 鈥 for bigger brands with unique geographies or different services 鈥 to join as a new 鈥榣egal regional anchor鈥 or 鈥榦ther professional services鈥 brand.
鈥淥ur overall approach is different because we don鈥檛 combine with flailing businesses, but ones that are ambitious and looking for a fast-track to fuel growth. Culture comes first and if the main objective is to make a quick gain at others鈥 expense, then we know we鈥檙e not a fit.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 profess to have all the answers or that we鈥檙e perfect 鈥 instead we have a growth mind-set, we learn from mistakes, and we welcome constructive feedback. We empower our people, take accountability, stay agile and embrace new ideas, which has helped us achieve 16% largely organic growth in the year just finished.鈥
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