Legal Services succession in North East

Name: Legal Services business succession in North East
Creator: ExitRadar
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142 of 380 legal services companies in North East — 37.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured380

Director aged 60+142

Exposure rate37.4%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

380

Companies measured

142

Director 60+

Director 70+

37.4%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; legal services nationally runs at 34%.

Measure	Companies
Legal Services companies in North East measured	380
Oldest director aged 60 or over	142
Oldest director aged 70 or over	43

Of the 142 with a director over 60, 21 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Legal Services in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Scotland	383	46.1%
South West	461	43.7%
Wales	211	42.5%
South East	732	39.6%
East of England	388	39.1%
East Midlands	275	35.4%
Northern Ireland	98	35.1%
West Midlands	389	31.5%

Other trades in North East

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,725	34.4%
Consultancy Services	1,553	37.6%
Retail	1,165	24.4%
Engineering Services	920	30.2%
Other Leisure	917	30.5%
Investment	915	27.3%
Investment / Fund Management	662	35.9%
Property Development	616	42.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Professional Services pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Professional Services →

See all Legal Services succession data or everything in North East.

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ExitRadar, "Legal Services succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-legal/north-east/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.