- CEO
- Martin St. Clair Pike
- Full Time Employees
- 1,594
- Sector
- Commercial services
- Industry
- Miscellaneous commercial services
- Address
- One Eleven, Edmund Street Birmingham WM United Kingdom B3 2HJ
- IPO Date
- Jun 8, 2015
- Business
- Gateley (Holdings) Plc is a professional services group that provides commercial legal services through Gateley Legal and complementary non-legal consultancy services including building advisory, leadership consultancy, IP advisory, pension trusteeship and tax incentive advice. Gateley Legal, which accounts for approximately 90% of revenue, advises over 5,000 clients across five core business groups encompassing Corporate (banking, corporate finance, restructuring advisory, taxation); Business Services (commercial law, commercial dispute resolution, complex international litigation, reputation, media and privacy law); People (employment, pensions and benefits, private clients); and Property (real estate, residential development, construction, planning, real estate dispute resolution). The group operates 29 offices across 27 locations in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East including Dubai, North Africa, and Asia including Hong Kong; employs over 1,500 people including more than 580 professional advisers; and maintains subsidiaries such as Entrust Pension Limited, Gateley Capitus Limited, Gateley Hamer Limited, T-Three Consulting Limited, Gateley Vinden Limited and Thomas Alexander Holdings Limited. Founded as an English law firm in 1808 and headquartered at One Eleven, Edmund Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom, the company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2015 as the first commercial law firm to do so. Recent developments include the acquisition of intellectual property law firm Groom Wilkes & Wright LLP in September 2025 for up to £9m to bolster its intangible assets practice; the agreement of an £80m revolving credit facility in April 2025 with an uncommitted £20m accordion option, coordinated by Bank of Scotland, to support further acquisitions and organic growth following 14 prior deals since listing; the announcement in September 2025 of CFO Neil Smith's planned retirement on 30 April 2026 after 17 years with the firm alongside the appointment of a successor; directorate changes including a new non-executive director appointment in July 2025 and share purchases by non-executive directors; issuance of equity related to prior acquisitions such as Gateley RJA and TVR; and sustained revenue growth to £86m in the six months ended 31 October 2024 with consultancy services expanding three times faster than legal services organically.