Andrew Allen
Partner and head of legal sector
Andrew leads the firm’s specialist national legal sector team and personally advises in the region of 100 law firms across the UK; focusing primarily on law businesses within the UK Top 200.
Having advised law firms for the last 25 years, Andrew has developed a national reputation for his practical and specialist advice to the legal sector. The range of advice he provides is diverse, including strategy, profit improvement, tax planning and business structuring, as well as the usual compliance in relation to audit and accounting matters.
Nationally Andrew is the current vice chair of the Law Society Law Management Section and past chair of the ICAEW Solicitors’ Special Interest Group which works closely with national bodies and intermediaries that both represent and support the legal sector. Andrew is the current author of various benchmarking reports for groups of law firms across the UK including the Law Society Management Section’s South West benchmarking survey and LawNet’s annual financial benchmarking report. Andrew is also the co-author of the Law Society’s Solicitors and the Accounts Rules which was published in 2021.
