Knights Group (KGH) Half Year results presentation - January 24

Knights Group CEO, David Beech and CFO, Kate Lewis present half year results for the six months ended 31 October 2023, followed by Q&A. David Beech, CEO 00:16 - Introduction 33:16 - Half Year overview 01:32 - H1 24 Highlights Kate Lewis, CFO 05:15 - H1 Financial higlights 07:03 - Income statement 08:55 - Revenue bridge 11:49 - Underlying PBT bridge 14:44 - Performance against KPI's 16:06 - Summary Cashflows 16:57 - Working capital 20:27 - Net debt 21:20 - Capital allocation David Beech, CEO 22:47 - Talent aquisition and retention 28:27 - Scale and premium service 31:19 - Aqcuisitions 34:36 - Summary and current trading 36:17 - Q&A Knights is a legal and professional services business, ranked within the UK's top 50 largest law firms by revenue. Knights was one of the first law firms in the UK to move from the traditional partnership model to a corporate structure in 2012 and has since grown rapidly. Knights has specialists in all key areas of corporate and commercial law so that it can offer end-to-end support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. It is focussed on key UK markets outside London and currently operates from 23 offices located in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Carlisle, Cheltenham, Chester, Exeter, Kings Hill, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Manchester, Newbury, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oxford, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Stoke, Teesside, Weybridge, Wilmslow and York.