CLB Coopers enjoys two years of growth

Accountancy and advisory firm CLB Coopers, which has an office in Lancaster, has seen turnover grow by 25 per cent over the past two years.

Revenue reached £10.5m following its acquisition by Baldwins, the national business services group Baldwins, in November last year.

The organic growth includes a significant increase in new audit appointments and growing demand for its specialist corporate finance, corporate and personal tax and restructuring and insolvency services.

This is in addition to the revenue generated by the new specialist services which CLB Coopers can offer with the support of its new owners, such as banking and finance, and forensics.

This year also saw the firm's corporate finance team achieve record levels of merger & acquisition transactional activity, with deals advised on during 2017 totalling more than of £200m of MBOs and international purchases.

David Travis, managing director of CLB Coopers, said: "This is an excellent result for the year and one which follows our integration into the Baldwins group.

"The last 12 months have brought a number of key senior appointments and promotions, particularly across our tax and corporate finance teams, with more announcements to come over the next few months. These changes have allowed us to strengthen our teams and to service the increasing demand for both compliance and specialist services. "The next year will see us embark on our growth plans throughout the North West and we can certainly look forward to another exciting year of opportunity and growth."