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, CEO00:16 - Introduction33:16 - Half Year overview01:32 - H1 24 Highlights Kate Lewis, CFO05:15 - H1 Financial higlights07:03 - Income statement08:55 - Revenue bridge11:49 - Underlying PBT bridge14:44 - Performance against KPI's16:06 - Summary Cashflows16:57 - Working capital20:27 - Net debt21:20 - Capital allocation David Beech, CEO22:47 - Talent aquisition and retention28:27 - Scale and premium service31:19 - Aqcuisitions34:36 - 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.