TTCA Arrangements Companies in Birmingham: Firms and Services Guide
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Acumon Chartered Accountants·12 min read
TTCA arrangements can be more than a technical compliance matter for FCA-regulated firms - they can affect how clearly ownership, collateral use, client consent and regulatory treatment are understood in practice.
Birmingham is served by a range of professional firms that support businesses with client asset, collateral and financial services compliance matters. These may include audit and assurance providers, regulatory advisors, risk specialists and firms with experience in FCA client asset requirements.
This guide highlights a selection of TTCA arrangements companies serving businesses in Birmingham. Rather than ranking providers, the aim is to offer practical context - outlining who these firms are, the types of regulated organisations they typically support, and the areas where they are most active.
Acumon
Acumon is a UK firm of chartered accountants and registered auditors providing TTCA Arrangements services to companies, charities, and international corporate groups. They provide services in the UK, including Birmingham.
The firm works with organisations ranging from growing owner-managed businesses and charities through to larger corporate groups and regulated entities. TTCA engagements are delivered in accordance with relevant FCA Client Assets Sourcebook (CASS) requirements and supported by a structured risk-based approach.
Acumon holds relevant regulatory authorisations, including ICAEW registration and FRC oversight, allowing the firm to support firms subject to enhanced regulatory oversight in the United Kingdom in relation to client assets and collateral arrangements. Such work is subject to additional regulatory supervision and quality requirements.
In addition to its UK authorisations, Acumon also holds audit and advisory licences in several international financial centres, including the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands (BVI), Jersey, and Isle of Man. These enable the firm to support international corporate groups where entities and arrangements span multiple jurisdictions.
International group structures frequently involve a combination of UK operating companies and offshore holding entities, particularly in sectors such as investment management, technology, energy, and international trade. Coordinating TTCA-related work across these structures requires familiarity with cross-border financial arrangements and compliance processes.
Acumon works with finance teams and boards to support TTCA requirements while also helping organisations strengthen financial controls, governance arrangements, and compliance processes as they grow.
TTCA Arrangements Capabilities:
Acumon provides TTCA Arrangements support across a wide range of organisational structures and sectors.
These include:
UK limited companies and corporate groups
Regulated organisations and investment firms
UK subsidiaries of international groups
Charities and not-for-profit organisations
Owner-managed businesses
Offshore holding companies and investment vehicles
TTCA engagements are typically led by senior professionals with direct involvement throughout the engagement.
Regulatory Licences and Registrations:
Acumon holds several audit registrations that enable it to support organisations operating across multiple jurisdictions.
These include:
UK statutory audit registration
Public Interest Entity (PIE) audit licence
Jersey audit licence
Isle of Man audit licence
Cayman Islands audit licence
British Virgin Islands audit licence
These registrations allow the firm to provide audit services to groups that include entities in both the UK and key international financial centres.
Core Services:
In addition to statutory external audit, Acumon provides a range of services that support financial reporting and governance.
These include:
Statutory external audit
Group and subsidiary audits
Public Interest Entity (PIE) audits
Charity and not-for-profit audit
Audit of international group structures
Internal audit and governance reviews
Risk management and compliance support
Audit work is often delivered alongside discussions with management and boards regarding financial reporting processes and governance frameworks.
Many organisations initially encounter statutory audit requirements as they grow and exceed the audit exemption thresholds set out in the Companies Act.
Acumon works with businesses that are:
Approaching their first statutory audit
Preparing for external investment
Expanding into international markets
Operating within corporate group structures
Early engagement with an audit firm can help ensure that financial reporting systems and documentation are aligned with statutory audit requirements.
Address: 1-2 Craven Road, Ealing, London, W5 2UA, UK
The Wilkes Partnership
The Wilkes Partnership is a Birmingham-based law firm that advises businesses on banking and leveraged finance matters. The firm works with companies, entrepreneurs, SMEs, borrowers, and financial institutions, which gives The Wilkes Partnership visibility over finance transactions from both sides of the table. For TTCA arrangements, that legal finance background can be relevant where collateral, security, funding documents, and priority between parties need careful review.
The Wilkes Partnership’s banking team can support businesses with funder documentation, security requirements, conditions precedent, and existing finance arrangements. They also work across corporate and real estate matters, which may be useful where a finance structure involves more than one legal area. The firm is SRA-authorised and Lexcel-accredited.
Key Highlights:
Birmingham-based law firm with banking and corporate finance experience
Advises both lenders and borrowers on finance transactions
Works with SMEs, entrepreneurs, businesses, and financial institutions
George Green is a law firm with offices in Cradley Heath, Sutton Coldfield, and Wolverhampton. The firm advises banks, other financial institutions, borrowers, and management teams on banking and finance transactions.
George Green’s banking and finance team deals with both lender-side and borrower-side instructions. They can draft facility documents, take security, provide legal opinions on finance structures, and negotiate priority or intercreditor arrangements. This makes George Green relevant for businesses reviewing TTCA arrangements where the legal position of collateral, ranking of security, or funding documentation needs to be understood clearly.
Key Highlights:
Advises lenders, borrowers, and management teams
Handles banking, finance, and corporate funding matters
Works with blended finance structures involving different products or lenders
Lexcel-accredited and authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
Opus Business Advisory Group provides advisory support across restructuring, insolvency, forensic accounting, corporate strategy, funding, and business transformation. The firm works with companies facing financial, operational, debt-related, or ownership changes, which can overlap with situations where collateral arrangements and financing structures need to be reviewed carefully.
Opus's advisory work may be relevant where TTCA arrangements sit within a wider finance, restructuring, debt, or business recovery context. The Birmingham team includes local senior contacts, and the wider group operates through offices across the UK and Bermuda. Opus is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Key Highlights:
UK-based advisory group with offices across the country and in Bermuda
Covers restructuring, insolvency, financial advisory, forensic accounting, and funding support
Works with businesses dealing with debt, operational pressure, capital needs, or corporate change
Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
Navigate Commercial Finance is a Birmingham-based commercial finance broker focused on working capital and asset-based lending. The company helps businesses raise funding against assets such as receivables, stock, machinery, equipment, property, and cash flow. Navigate Commercial Finance may be relevant where funding, collateral use, lender relationships, or asset-backed finance structures need to be considered alongside wider business needs.
Navigate Commercial Finance works with a range of lenders and helps businesses compare funding options before committing to a facility. The company’s work covers asset-based lending, invoice finance, revolving credit, asset finance, cash flow loans, supply chain finance, and other specialist funding routes.
Key Highlights:
Focuses on working capital and asset-based lending
Supports businesses using assets to raise capital
Works with lender relationships across different funding products
Covers both day-to-day cash flow needs and larger funding requirements
Provides broker-led support rather than legal or audit advice
Services:
Asset-based lending
Invoice finance
Cash flow loans
Revolving credit facilities
Asset finance
Commercial and buy-to-let mortgage introductions
Personal guarantee insurance and FX currency support
Irwin Mitchell is a full-service law firm. The firm works with individuals and organisations across a wide range of legal areas, including business law. Its Birmingham team forms part of a wider UK office network, which may be useful for companies that need legal support across more than one location or area of law.
For TTCA arrangements, Irwin Mitchell may be relevant where a business needs legal input connected to contracts, finance arrangements, commercial risk, or wider corporate matters.
Key Highlights:
Full-service law firm with an office in central Birmingham
Supports both individuals and organisations
Business law forms part of the firm’s wider legal work
Address: 7th and 9th Floor, The Colmore Building 20 Colmore Circus, Birmingham, B4 6AH
Phone: 0121 667 2444
KPMG
KPMG is a professional services firm with work covering financial reporting, accounting guidance, assurance, tax, and advisory services. They may be relevant where businesses need technical accounting input around transfers of financial assets, secured borrowings, derecognition, servicing arrangements, repurchase agreements, or securities lending.
KPMG’s financial reporting work includes guidance on how entities account for transfers of financial assets and related obligations. The firm is better framed here as an accounting and advisory provider rather than a legal provider for title transfer documentation.
Key Highlights:
Professional services firm with financial reporting and advisory expertise
Covers accounting treatment for transfers of financial assets
Provides guidance on sales, secured borrowings, servicing assets, and disclosures
Relevant where TTCA-related issues overlap with accounting or reporting treatment
Services:
Accounting advisory
Audit and assurance support
Advisory services
Tax services
Financial instruments accounting support
Transfer of financial assets accounting
Contact Information:
Website: kpmg.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/KPMG
Twitter: x.com/kpmguk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/kpmg-uk
Address: One Snowhill, Snowhill Queensway, B4 6GH , Birmingham, UK
Phone: +44 (0)121 232 3000
Rothschild & Co
Rothschild & Co has a Wealth Management office in Birmingham, based on Temple Row in the Colmore Business District. Alongside wealth planning and investment support, Rothschild & Co also has an established Global Advisory presence in Birmingham. This gives the firm a wider financial services profile in the city, particularly for clients whose personal wealth, business interests and long-term planning overlap. Their services cover advice, planning, investing, banking and lending, with support aimed at managing wealth over time rather than one-off transactional work.
Key Highlights:
Supports entrepreneurs, business owners, families, professionals and charities
Offers wealth management alongside access to wider expert networks
Address: 67 Temple Row, Birmingham, B2 5LS, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 121 600 5252
Evelyn Partners
Evelyn Partners team brings together investment management and financial planning rather than treating them as separate pieces of work. Evelyn Partners provides discretionary and advisory investment management, charity investment management, outsourced investment management, pension-related support, trust work and portfolio management. Their client base also includes UK resident and non-UK domiciled individuals, which gives the office a broader cross-border wealth planning angle.
Key Highlights:
Works with private clients, entrepreneurs, charities and professional practices
Supports UK and international clients
Covers discretionary and advisory investment management
Provides services for trustees, pensions, charities and smaller institutions
Services:
Wealth management
Financial planning
Investment management
Charity investment management
Outsourced investment management
Portfolio management
Pension-related planning
Contact Information:
Website: www.evelyn.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/evelynpartners
Twitter: x.com/evelynpartners
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/evelynpartners
Instagram: www.instagram.com/evelynpartners
Address: 103 Colmore Row, Birmingham, West Midlands, B3 3AG, United Kingdom
Phone: 0203 993 8693
RBC Wealth Management
RBC Wealth Management's office works with private clients, intermediaries, professional partners and charities, with named contacts across private client advice, intermediary relationships and charity wealth management.
RBC Wealth Management provides financial advice, investment management and private banking facilities through its Birmingham team. Its wider UK offering covers individuals and families, business owners, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, international individuals, family offices and ultra-high-net-worth clients. The firm also connects Birmingham clients with wider RBC services, including private wealth, RBC Brewin Dolphin, portfolio services and international trust support.
Key Highlights:
Works with individuals, families, intermediaries, charities and professional partners
Provides financial advice, investment management and private banking support
Has dedicated contacts for private clients, intermediaries and charities
Part of RBC Wealth Management’s wider UK and international network
PwC works across audit, assurance, tax, consulting, deals, and financial reporting advisory, with technical material covering collateral arrangements and transfers reported as secured borrowings. For TTCA-related work, PwC’s strength sits mainly in the accounting and reporting treatment of transferred financial assets, pledged collateral, securities lending, repurchase agreements, and related disclosure requirements.
The firm’s guidance around collateral focuses on how assets and liabilities should be presented when collateral has been transferred but not derecognised.
Key Highlights:
Covers collateral and transfers reported as secured borrowings
Provides technical guidance on ASC 860 and related reporting rules
Addresses pledged assets, repos, reverse repos, and securities lending
Explains balance sheet presentation and offsetting considerations
Includes disclosure requirements for collateral and master netting arrangements
Services:
Accounting advisory
Financial reporting support
Audit and assurance
Collateral accounting analysis
Secured borrowing presentation review
Disclosure support
Contact Information:
Website: www.pwc.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/PwCUK
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/pwc-uk
Instagram: www.instagram.com/pwc_uk
Address: One Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3AX
Phone: +44 (0)121 265 5000
EFG
EFG is a private banking and investment services group with services covering private banking, asset management, credit solutions, investment management, custody, and wealth services. In Birmingham, EFG Harris Allday operates as the investment management division of EFG Private Bank Limited and works with individuals, families, charities, pension funds and trusts.
For TTCA arrangements, EFG’s work is most closely linked to private banking, custody, investment services, and collateral used to secure financial obligations. A title transfer collateral arrangement can involve a client transferring legal and beneficial ownership of assets to a bank, with the bank then having an obligation to return equivalent assets once the relevant obligations are met. In that setting, EFG’s services sit around the banking, investment and custody side of the arrangement, rather than external legal or audit review.
Key Highlights:
Private banking and investment services group
EFG Harris Allday has a long history in the West Midlands
Supports individuals, families, charities, pension funds and trusts
Provides discretionary and advisory investment management
Offers custody-related information and participant disclosures
Choosing support for TTCA arrangements usually depends on the nature of the arrangement itself. Some organisations may need legal advice on title transfer wording, collateral rights, security documents or priority arrangements. Others may need accounting, reporting, custody, funding or regulatory input, especially where the arrangement affects financial statements, client asset treatment or internal controls.
This guide is not intended to rank providers. Its purpose is to give businesses a clearer view of the types of firms active in and around Birmingham, from law firms and finance brokers to wealth managers and professional services firms. The right choice will often come down to the organisation’s FCA status, the assets involved, the level of technical review required and whether the issue is mainly legal, financial, accounting or operational.
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Written by the Acumon team
Acumon is an ICAEW-registered firm of chartered accountants and registered auditors
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