
Creative, Media & Technology
Why haysmacintyre?
The Creative, Media and Technology industries are evolving and converging at an unprecedented rate, with digital innovation transforming the way companies work. That’s why it’s vital to have specialist advisers who understand the unique challenges you face and can offer a service that suits your style.
We advise some of the UK’s most exciting entrepreneurs and creative businesses. Our clients include technology companies, digital and media agencies, film companies, fashion and ecommerce businesses and media personalities. They work with us because we are knowledgeable about developments in their industry and have a friendly, responsive and down-to-earth approach. We specialise in advising growing, changing, entrepreneurial businesses and as such we understand their needs and have the breadth of expertise to advise across the range of services they require, to transition from early stage, growth, build and on to an event.
Business lifecycle services
When you have your ‘big idea’ we can offer advice on how to get your business off the ground: Click here to take you to our business growth services for the concept stage. When you’re starting out in business for the first time, or reinvesting after an exit, haysmcintyre can offer advice to support your personal financial interests. Click here to take you to our private client services summary. When you're ready to consider external investment and employing staff, we can assist to take some of the burden away and ensure your focus remains making your business idea a reality: Click here to take you to our business growth services for the seed stage. When you’re putting everything into your business haysmacintyre can offer advice to support your personal financial interests. Click here to take you to our private client services summary. When you've achieved your first milestones we can offer advice on how to develop your business and can look after compliance matters for you, leaving you to grow the business: Click here to take you to our business growth services for the early stage. When you’re realising your first income haysmacintyre can offer advice to support your personal financial interests. Click here to take you to our private client services summary. When you're taking on more people, increased investment and expanding overseas, we can advise you on these matters: Click here to take you to our business growth services for the scale stage. When your business is expanding haysmacintyre can offer advice to support your personal financial interests. Click here to take you to our private client services summary. When you're a market leader, we can offer advice on how to cement your success and structure your business appropriately: Click here to take you to our business growth services for the maturity stage. When you’re realising your first income haysmacintyre can offer advice to support your personal financial interests. Click here to take you to our private client services summary. We can offer advice on how to achieve the best exit for you and work with you throughout your exit event: Click here to take you to our business growth services for the exit stage. When you’re planning your exit strategy haysmacintyre can offer advice to support your personal financial interests. Click here to our private client services summary.
Concept Stage
Seed Stage
Early Stage
Scale Stage
Maturity Stage
Exit Stage
Concept Stage
Your Business's Growth
Your Personal Financial Interests
Seed Stage
Your Business's Growth
Your Personal Financial Interests
Early Stage
Your Business's Growth
Your Personal Financial Interests
Scale Stage
Your Business's Growth
Your Personal Financial Interests
Maturity Stage
Your Business's Growth
Your Personal Financial Interests
Exit Stage
Your Business's Growth
Your Personal Financial Interests
How we can help you
We help you avoid any pitfalls, exploit opportunities and improve your commercial success. As specialists in your field, we will give you the most relevant, up to date advice and always be available to answer your questions.
Acting for many clients across their lifecycle, we offer a suite of services that will best address your needs at any point in time, whether that’s maximising an R&D tax credit claim, structuring the most tax efficient investment for inward investment, performing due diligence on a strategic acquisition, incentivising key team members, expanding internationally or supporting a successful tax efficient exit.
Doing business overseas
Through our co-founded, award winning international alliance, MSI Global Alliance, we provide local expertise wherever you plan to grow your business. We lead the relationship for our clients ensuring that they receive a global perspective for their business as we can collaborate with 250 legal and accounting firms in more than 100 countries.
We’re experts in your industry
We run seminars, workshops and events on a broad range of topics and our CMT team regularly write for sector publications. We are closely involved in a number of sector initiatives and events including FinTech Connect Live, Young Guns, Startups Awards, Angel Academe, British Fashion Council and the newly launch Venturers Club.
Our services
We can support you across a breadth of sector requirements. You can combine any of our services to suit your business; our rates are competitive and we agree fees upfront providing transparency.
- Bookkeeping and management accounts reporting
- Company Secretarial
- Payroll
- VAT and duty advice
- Employment taxes and benefits
- Year end accounts
- Corporate tax
- International and corporate tax planning
- International expansion
- Share options
- R&D
- Patent box
- EIS and SEIS
- Corporate finance including acquisitions due diligence, M&A, IPOs and share valuations
- Transaction support
- Financial modelling
- Cash flow management
- Personal tax planning and compliance
- Personal wealth management