Harbottle & Lewis has announced its financial results for the 2024/25 financial year.

For the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the firm reported income of £53.8m. This represents the highest income figure reported in its 70 year history.

These results demonstrate the firm’s sustained growth, with a 13.3% increase in income over the last two years and a 91.8% increase over the last eight years.

This is the firm’s first twelve month financial year since it altered its year end to align with the tax year following HMRC’s basis period reform.

Co-managing partner Charlie Leveque said:

“We are very pleased with how the firm has performed over the last financial year, reflected in these strong results which underscore the strength of the relationships we have built with our clients and the trust they continue to have in us. Over the last year we have continued to make great strides in implementing our strategy, for example by refining and sharpening our focus on key sectors, strengthening our international presence and developing our connections overseas, and investing in new ways to improve efficiencies through technology and innovation. This reinforces our conviction that the firm is in a strong position to build on these successes and that our focused, strategic approach will continue to bear fruit.

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Charlie Leveque Co-Managing Partner

Charlie is the firm’s co-managing partner and head of the corporate practice.

Charlie is the firm’s co-managing partner and head of the corporate practice.

Outside of his management roles, Charlie advises on a wide range of corporate transactions from private and public mergers and acquisitions to investments, joint ventures, fundraisings and shareholder arrangements involving private equity, venture capital, family office and strategic parties. He has advised on a number of IPOs on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

His clients comprise investors, funds and companies of all sizes, from startups to international corporations in a wide range of industries; he is particularly experienced in advising clients in the technology, media, entertainment, retail and leisure sectors. He is also passionate about advising entrepreneurs, accompanying them from the inception of their ideas to exit.

Charlie is a member of the British Screen Advisory Council and the EIS Association.

Tony Littner Co-Managing Partner

Tony is the firm’s co-managing partner and co-lead of the firm’s venture capital and emerging companies practice.

Tony is the firm’s co-managing partner and co-lead of the firm’s venture capital and emerging companies practice.

Tony advises on a wide range of corporate transactions, including investments and venture capital deals, buying and selling businesses and shareholder arrangements. Tony is widely recognised as one of the leading venture capital lawyers in the UK and is a trusted adviser to entrepreneurial businesses and to the investors in such businesses, with a particular focus on the technology, media and entertainment sectors.

Tony frequently advises emerging companies and the founders behind such companies on their full lifecycle from inception of an idea through to funding rounds, exit and beyond as well as the venture capital funds and investors that invest in such high growth businesses.

Tony is recognised as a "Leading Partner" by The Legal 500 and ranked by Chambers in venture capital work.