Kingston Smith LLP

Kingston Smith LLP, a top 20 accountancy firm in the UK, has been working with inward investing companies from different countries for a long time. We are well placed to assist and handhold companies across all sectors to set up in the UK. Kingston Smith LLP, a top 20 accountancy firm in the UK, has been working with inward investing companies from different countries for a long time. We are well placed to assist and handhold companies across all sectors to set up in the UK.

Contact

• Key contact: Chris Lane

• Position: Partner and Head of Inward Investment

• Email: clane@kingstonsmith.co.uk

• Telephone: +44 20 7566 3805

• India contact: Chandru Iyer

• Position: International Business Development Director

• Email: ciyer@kingstonsmith.co.uk

• Telephone: +44 20 7566 3682

• Website: www.kingstonsmith.co.uk

Overview

• Kingston Smith LLP is a top 20 accountancy firm and has 63 partners and over 500 people. The KS Group has seven offices in London and the South East and is the founding member of KS International, an association of over 150 independent accounting firms in over 50 countries around the world.

• We support entrepreneurial businesses, private individuals and not for profit organisations and have specialist expertise in the technology, property, professional firms, marketing services and TV/media, manufacturing, healthcare, leisure & hospitality and sport industries.

• The Kingston Smith India Desk has rich experience in assisting Indian businesses of all sizes and across all verticals, offering boutique services in a professional and responsive manner. We at Kingston Smith have acted for a range of Indian businesses from start-ups and SMEs through to the large multinational corporations, for over two decades.

• Kingston Smith also has an active Latin American Desk, responsible for assisting companies from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, with their entry plans for the UK market.

• In addition to Accounting and Audit services, we have different strategic business units offering assistance with Corporate Finance, HR Consultancy, Technology & Risk Consulting and Financial Advisory services.

Areas of specialism

• Company Formation & Start-Ups

• Tax Advice

• Bookkeeping

• Back Office Services

• Audit & Assurance

• Market Listings

• Mergers and Acquisitions

• Acquisitions Due Diligence

• Raising Finance

• Outsourced HR Services

Services can be provided in the following languages

• Afrikaans

• Cantonese

• Czech

• Farsi (Persian)

• French

• German

• Gujarati

• Hebrew

• Hindi

• Hungarian

• Italian

• Mandarin

• Punjabi

• Romanian

• Russian

• Slovak

• Spanish

• Swahili

• Tamil

• Urdu

• Welsh

Industry awards

• Charity Auditor of the year

Memberships

• Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations

• Academy of Experts

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

• Association of Practising Accountants

• Association of Professional Practices

• British Business Angels Association

• British Property Federation

• Charity Finance Directors Group

• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

• Direct Marketing Association

• Expert Witness Institute

• Finance & Leasing Association

• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

• Institute of Directors

• Institute of Fundraising

• Institute of Internal Auditors

• Institute of Practitioners in Advertising

• International Visual Communications Association

• Public Relations Consultants Association

• Securities Institute

• Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners

• The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

• The Royal Society of Arts

• The Society of Construction Law

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