Legal Services succession in South West

Name: Legal Services business succession in South West
Creator: ExitRadar
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461 of 1,054 legal services companies in South West — 43.7% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,054

Director aged 60+461

Exposure rate43.7%

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

1,054

Companies measured

461

Director 60+

157

Director 70+

43.7%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Legal Services companies in South West measured	1,054
Oldest director aged 60 or over	461
Oldest director aged 70 or over	157

Of the 461 with a director over 60, 49 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%
Wales	211	42.5%
South East	732	39.6%
East of England	388	39.1%
North East	142	37.4%
East Midlands	275	35.4%
Northern Ireland	98	35.1%
West Midlands	389	31.5%

Other trades in South West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	6,658	43%
Lettings	6,114	44.9%
Retail	4,239	32%
Other Leisure	3,124	36%
Agriculture	2,777	56.9%
Property Development	2,716	48.2%
Investment	2,685	37.7%
Investment / Fund Management	2,473	40%

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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See all Legal Services succession data or everything in South West.

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ExitRadar, "Legal Services succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-legal/south-west/

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.