Leonard Curtis Senior Leadership Team, from left to right Dan Booth CEO, David Brown, COO and Paul Birks CFO
Leading professional services firm Leonard Curtis is celebrating 30 years in business.
The firm, which started life in Bury as the insolvency division of a regional accountancy practice, now employs over 330 people across 30 offices UK and offshore.
It specialises in restructuring, funding, legal, M & A advisory and a wide range of related business services, meeting the needs of SMEs, corporates and their advisers to manage challenges facing business owners and support opportunities for growth.
It was one of the first professional services firms to add a legal pillar to its service portfolio in 2016 – now employing 19 fee earners – and continues to invest in funding and other services to provide a full multi-disciplinary experience for clients and referring communities.
Its successful accountancy referral network – Lifecycle – has over 3,000 accountancy firms getting access to experts from the Group and wider leading lights on tax and other key areas of practice, championing excellence in problem solving.
The 30-year milestone comes as private equity investors Pollen Street Capital take a majority stake in the business to accelerate growth through product expansion, technology and M & A.
Since the firm set out its ambitions as part its 25th anniversary celebrations the firm has added offices in Chester, Gateshead, Taunton, Loughborough, Jersey, Huddersfield, Isle of Man, Beverley and acquired businesses on the South Coast and Sheffield to boost breadth and depth of UK presence. It also attracted an initial round of private capital investment in 2021 which exited in August 2025 with a healthy return.
The firm is five years into The Leonard Curtis Foundation which manages a donation programme to causes nominated by its team and introduced Giving Back Days to acknowledge that success is also about the difference you can make to others. To mark 30 years, this giving back initiative will be enhanced.
Leonard Curtis remains on the acquisition trail, after the successful most recent additions of Newsource Commercial Finance, bringing in specialist brokerage for the construction sector, and Virtualnonexecs.com, with access to 20,000+ non-execs worldwide to help achieve positive solutions for clients.
Commenting on the milestone CEO Dan Booth said: “Thirty years on from our first office in Bury we are the same people, committed to delivering exceptional service with heart and integrity. The recent investment from Pollen Street is a validation of that vision and will support all of us to deliver on ambitious plans for the immediate future and the decades to come.”
