Legal Services succession in Scotland

Name: Legal Services business succession in Scotland
Creator: ExitRadar
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384 of 848 legal services companies in Scotland (45.3%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured848

Director aged 60+384

Exposure rate45.3%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

848

Companies measured

384

Director 60+

Director 70+

45.3%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; legal services nationally runs at 33.7%.

Measure	Companies
Legal Services companies in Scotland measured	848
Oldest director aged 60 or over	384
Oldest director aged 70 or over	92

Of the 384 with a director over 60, 62 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Legal Services in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	455	43.6%
Wales	194	41.3%
South East	767	37.8%
East of England	477	37.6%
North East	141	37.4%
Northern Ireland	101	35.4%
East Midlands	315	35.2%
West Midlands	425	31.9%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	4,028	37%
Consultancy Services	3,979	40.5%
Retail	2,697	25.3%
Agriculture	2,268	50.9%
Other Leisure	2,235	32.6%
Engineering Services	2,119	33.4%
Investment	2,115	33.3%
Investment / Fund Management	1,634	40.5%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Legal Services succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-legal/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.