BATES WELLS & BRAITHWAITE LIMITED
Company number 08321040 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Bates Wells & Braithwaite Limited is a financially sound solicitors' practice that has more than doubled its net assets over seven years while significantly reducing liabilities. However, the practice is experiencing concerning cash flow symptoms, with cash declining 47% in the latest year and 90% of current assets locked in debtors. Immediate attention to debtor collection and cash flow management is recommended to prevent liquidity pressures, though the underlying business health remains fundamentally strong with a healthy current ratio of 3.36:1 and minimal long-term debt.
Shareholders' funds
£685,553
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company is that of a solicitor's practice.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2012-12-06
- Employees
- 21 (2026 accounts)
- Registered office
- 27 Friars Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2AD
- Postcode
- CO10 2AD
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-04-30
- Next due by
- 2028-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-09-09
- Next due by
- 2027-09-23
Nature of business (SIC)
- 69102 Solicitors
Officers 4 current · 2 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
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GJ TAYLOR BUILDING SERVICES LTD Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z1612104 (Tier 2), registered since 2009.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 42 similar companies in CO
The largest employer among its local peers (21 staff).
Trading since 2012.
Competitors Colchester
This company ranks 3 among solicitors in Colchester.
The class of 2012
45%
of the 1,141 companies in this sector incorporated in 2012 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.