Developing a relationship with your professional adviser, such as us, may include some or all of the following considerations:

Their competency, skill and expertise.

Their knowledge and understanding of your business affairs.

Their responsiveness to requests for information and being proactive to inform you of items relevant to you.

The chemisty being right as both parties need to be happy to work with one another.

Fees being both reasonable for the service and sustainable for the long term relationship that is intended. We believe the aforementioned values lead to fruitful and sustainable client / professional adviser relationship.

We are therefore happy to quote fees based upon what you tell us and what we understand your needs to be. We want our services to be good value for money and hence we will endeavour to set our fees accordingly.

When setting fees rates and levels we take into account whether in our opinion your business affairs are straight forward and simple to deal with, or whether your business affairs are complex, involve considerable research and or expertise, or are time consuming. Therefore we want to assure you that each client fee is assessed on its own merits.

Unless we have agreed a fixed fee basis with you our hourly chargeable rates effective from 1 February 2010 are applicable as follows. These rates may be revised at future dates (if you are an existing client we will advise you in writing of future changes, the old rates will remain available on the website for information purposes) so please check this page for current rates. All amounts are plus VAT.

Current fee rates from 1 February 2010 :

Charles William - (routine work)      £175 per hour

Charles William - (complex work)   from £195 to £325 per hour

Managers - (routine work) £120 per hour

Managers - (complex work)   from £145 to £225 per hour

Seniors - (routine work) £95 per hour

Juniors - (routine work) £65 per hour