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What a buyer sees

BOYD LEGAL LIMITED

Solicitors · Edinburgh · SC458598

18staff · FY2025
13years trading
80oldest owner on file
£324kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

4.5× spread
£477k
£2.1M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 3 figures against 77 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff18
202122 → 182025
Cash at bank£324k
2021£224k → £324k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£39,146£69,190£161,261
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1753186
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
819123
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
734122

Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.

What a buyer would ask 3

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £477k and £2.1M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • Headcount fell from 25 to 18A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.

What a buyer would like 0

Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.

What the register says

Owners

  • 61since 2016
  • 80since 2016

Directors

  • 61since 2014
  • 80since 2014
  • 41since 2021
  • 40since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-12-312026-09-01not filed18£324k
2023-12-31—not filed25£394k
2022-12-31—not filed24£323k
2021-12-31—not filed22£224k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.8–1.8× sales
£380k
£3.8M

The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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