recruitment services

Our team is able to provide the following specialist services:

• flotations, mergers and acquisitions - we ensure recruitment company owners obtain full value when they decide to buy, sell or float; we identify how to price a deal and what you need to look out for when buying or selling a business/book of temps; and we ensure you achieve full value from your investment.  We also help you in the lead up to the sale to make your business more attractive to buyers or investors
• how to retain your staff and database - we have leading solutions to the perennial problems in the recruitment sector of staff retention, enforcement of restrictive covenants and protection of database rights
• how to avoid employment claims - recent cases and threatened legislation have increased concerns about temps and contractors claiming employment rights.  Our models of supply deal with this risk, helping recruiters reassure their clients there is nothing to worry about
• terms and conditions - our precedents deal with all of the latest legal and regulatory developments and help you use them to your commercial advantage (Working Time, Data Protection, Conduct Regulations, new European Directives, local laws across Europe, discrimination law relating to temps, TUPE and the Acquired Rights Directive)
• how to improve managed service arrangements - setting up vendor neutral and other recruitment process outsourcing models; formulating and responding to tenders; helping achieve best practice, cost savings and value measurement, risk management, efficiency measurement, and value-added services; consolidating disparate supplier bases and transitioning existing arrangements without triggering liabilities
• VAT - using our VAT mitigation models reduces the cost of supply to banks, insurance companies, charities and the health sector 
• income tax and social security - what deductions need to be made in the UK and in other countries?  What tax planning currently works?  What do you need to avoid? What procedures do you need to adopt to avoi risk of unprovided for tax assessments under the UK MSC regime? 
• international issues - we ensure you supply temps lawfully in Europe and beyond
• fee disputes - have a specialist "high volume" debt recovery service designed to support recruitment companies debt recovery departments
• liability and insurance issues - what is current best practice risk apportionment between supplier and end user?
• funding arrangements - current issues with banking and invoice discounting