01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- STEPHENSON HARWOOD LLP
- Company number
- OC373597
- Company type
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 April 2025Next accounts due
31 January 2027Last statement made up to
25 February 2026Next statement due
11 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 November 2025 – 30 April 2026
- Filed
- 28 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 37 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The principal activity of Stephenson Harwood LLP is the provision of legal services in the United Kingdom and internationally, both directly and through its subsidiary undertakings. Our standard payment terms for trade suppliers are 37 days unless alternative terms are agreed between the vendor and Stephenson Harwood LLP. Payment for all goods and services will be made only after any issues or queries have been resolved to the satisfaction of both parties. Approved and due invoices are paid weekly via BACS or other bank transfer methods. Please note that payment of disbursements incurred on behalf of clients are excluded from our standard terms. Disbursements are settled on a ‘pay when paid’ basis. In line with UK SRA Accounts Rules, these are paid within a reasonable timeframe (within 2 days) after Stephenson Harwood LLP receives payment from the client.
- Dispute resolution process
All invoices in dispute are passed to the appropriate team that requested the goods or services in order for them to resolve the dispute. It may then be referred onto the senior management of the firm if necessary.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 38.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 72.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 64.0 average days to pay48.0% outside terms
- 62.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 68.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 64.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 66.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 86.0 average days to pay54.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 78.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay48.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
STEPHENSON HARWOOD LLP
LEI 894500JK9M2E1Y8PSF40 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- Z0EY
- Next renewal
- 3 August 2021
- Headquarters address
- 1 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7SH, GB
LEI data provides a global legal-entity identity, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links these records only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Stephenson Harwood LLP
Registration Z6536025
- Registered from
- 15 March 2002
- Current end date
- 14 March 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Legal Services re: 800 Pavilion Drive, Northampton
East Hampshire District Council · ocds-b5fd17-518ee523-0a8f-4e97-aaf9-7082370a89d3
- Award value
- £55,000
- Contract period
- 22 March 2023 – 22 March 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 1 March 2017
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
No SIC code was supplied in this bulk record.
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
1 procurement process linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.