CASE STUDY
ORWINS
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“Working with Aliter provides a fantastic opportunity to build national coverage across the UK and create a differentiated brand within the market, while remaining resolutely focused on meeting the needs of our core client base. We believe strongly the added support of Aliter brings significant experience and resources to help us accelerate the next stage of Orwins’ development.”
Dov Black, Chief Executive Officer, Orwins
Orwins is a full service law firm offering a comprehensive range of legal services, focused on working with high growth businesses, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals. The firm’s current team of almost 250 people works from offices in Manchester, London, Reading, Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds. It offers a comprehensive range of legal services, including Corporate, Commercial, Property, Secured Lending, Private Client, Employment and Immigration, HR, Litigation, Insolvency, Criminal, Regulatory and Family Law.
Key facts
Sub sector: Legal services
Date of initial investment: October 2024
Revenues: £34m
Number of employees: 250
Offices: London, Manchester, Reading, Newcastle
& Leeds
Acquisitions:
BBS Law (October 2024)
Carter Bond (August 2025)
Clarkslegal (May 2026)
Clarke Mairs (July 2026)
Milners (August 2026)
Websites:
www.orwins.law
VALUE CREATION
Background
Aliter is aiming to create a UK market leading provider of legal services, with a truly national footprint, servicing its clients with a focus on small to medium sized businesses, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals. This journey began in October 2024, with a significant investment in BBS Law which offered great foundations for future growth. This included a resilient business model, a range of complementary services to suit its customer base and long-standing customer relationships. The firm also offered a footprint in the attractive areas of Manchester and London and a track record of organic growth, combined with successfully integrating bolt-on acquisitions.
How Aliter has helped
Since its first investment in BBS, Aliter has continued to support both organic growth plans and a pipeline of target acquisitions. This is successfully expanding the firm’s regional coverage across the UK, strengthening its existing services and adding complementary new services. The emerging legal services group made four subsequent investments, starting in August 2025, in North London based Carter Bond, in May 2026 in Reading based Clarkslegal, in July 2026 in Newcastle based Clarke Mairs and in August 2026 in Leeds based Milners. These investments have strengthened and broadened the group’s service offering and added attractive specialisms. Aliter also supported the development and launch of the new brand, Orwins in May 2026.
Strategy
Aliter’s strategic focus is on using its deep business services expertise and broad networks to help drive both organic and acquisitive growth at Orwins, to gain scale and a national footprint. Aliter is the ideal partner for the developing legal services group, bringing a track record of delivering growth, access to capital for further expansion and specialist knowledge and experience of its main target markets.