For principals winding down a firm
Closing your firm? Your business clients have a home.
We pay a fixed amount for every business client who chooses to move to Sprintlaw. We handle the letters, the consent and the files.
- Paid per client, within 30 days of each one landing
- Business clients only. Everything else stays with you
- Digitisation and onboarding at our cost
Fixed-fee business law for 20,000+ businesses
Request the succession pack
The per-client figure, the consent letter and the timeline. We call within one business day.
The deal, in three lines
Paid per client
One fixed amount for each business client who moves. Paid within 30 days of them landing.
Business clients only
Limited companies, sole traders, partnerships and LLPs. No conveyancing, litigation, family, wills or safe custody.
Consent, or nothing
Every client gets a co-signed letter and decides. A no costs you nothing.
How it runs
Usually inside a quarter. You introduce us. We do the rest.
- 1
A 20-minute call
You describe the client base and your timing. We send the pack with the per-client figure.
- 2
Sign a short agreement
Which clients, how much per client, when it is paid.
- 3
Your clients choose
The co-signed letter goes out with a consent link. We collect and digitise the files of those who say yes.
- 4
You get paid as each client lands
Within 30 days of each onboarding. They get a fixed-fee firm, a legal health check and a year of membership.
The letter every client receives. Co-signed, plain English, explicit about the payment to you.
Against the other ways out
Sell through a broker
- Time
- 6 to 18 months, then a handover period
- You receive
- A negotiated price, discounted at due diligence
- Admin
- You, your staff, the buyer's team
- Ongoing tie
- Handover, restraint, sometimes consultancy
- Your clients
- Inherit whoever buys
Close and refer
- Time
- Immediate
- You receive
- Nothing
- Admin
- You
- Ongoing tie
- None
- Your clients
- Find a lawyer on their own
Transition to Sprintlaw
- Time
- Letters out within weeks
- You receive
- A fixed amount per client who moves
- Admin
- Us
- Ongoing tie
- 60 days on call
- Your clients
- Choose, in writing
Why your clients will say yes
Fixed fees, quoted up front
No hourly billing. Every matter is scoped and priced before work starts.
Their documents in one place
The files you hand over go onto their own account.
A legal health check on arrival
A lawyer flags what is out of date and what matters this year.
Twelve months of membership, on us
Ongoing access to lawyers and reminders on key dates.
The lawyers your clients will deal with
Embeth Sadie
Head of Legal
Angus Crawford
Senior Lawyer
Tomoyuki Hachigo
Co-Founder
What stays with you
Better said now than in the agreement. The SRA publishes guidance on closing a firm. Happy to walk through it on the call.
Client account
Reconciliation, closure and the accountant's report. We never touch client money.
Safe custody
Wills, deeds and titles held for clients stay yours to return or transfer.
Non-business files
Conveyancing, litigation, family and estate matters need a home elsewhere. We can suggest firms.
Regulatory notices
Notifying the SRA, arranging run-off cover and closing your firm.
Questions principals ask first
No. We do not buy the entity, the premises, the staff or the non-business files. What transfers is the goodwill in your business clients, and only those who consent. You keep your entity and close it yourself.
A fixed amount per business client, paid within 30 days of that client completing onboarding. You see the figure in the pack before you agree to anything. Most principals treat it as a sale of goodwill. Confirm the tax treatment with your accountant, including whether Business Asset Disposal Relief apply.
A trading business you have acted for on commercial matters: contracts, leases, employment, structuring, IP, compliance. Limited companies, sole traders, partnerships and LLPs. Dormant entities and one-off matters are usually out of scope. We confirm the list with you before any letter goes out.
Each client gets a letter co-signed by you and us. It says you are winding down, what Sprintlaw is, and that we pay you for the introduction. They consent through a short online form. Files move only after that, and the consent sits on their file.
The payment to you is disclosed to each client in writing before we accept instructions, and each client's consent is recorded. That is what the SRA Code of Conduct requires where a fee is paid for an introduction. Our legal team checks the letter and the agreement before anything is sent.
Nothing changes. They stay your client, their file stays with you, and no payment is made for them.
We do not take on employees. Lawyers at your firm who want to keep acting for business clients can apply to join our contractor network and take fixed-fee work through our platform.
England and Wales first, with Scotland and Northern Ireland following.
Only the small team assessing the transition. We do not ask for client details until an agreement is signed, and no client hears from us until you have approved the letter.
Talk to us before you tell your clients.
Alex Solo, Co-Founder. The order matters: a co-signed letter lands very differently from a note saying the office is closing.