Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement
Financial year Ending 31st May 2025
This statement is published on behalf of K3 Capital Group Limited and its corporate subsidiaries and affiliates (“K3”) which in the UK encompass the following entities in the list here with reference to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act“):
For a full list of UK entities in K3 Capital Group click here:
| No. | Entity name and registration number | Registered office or address | ICO Number or Equivalent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | K3 Capital Group Ltd | Company number: 06102618 Registered office address: KBS House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZA236839 |
| 2 | Shin Topco Ltd | Company number: 14515822 Registered office address: 2 Park Street, 1st Floor, London, United Kingdom, W1K 2HX | |
| 3 | Flint Studios Ltd | Company number: NI610114 Registered office address: Unit 6a Ravenhill Business Park, Ravenhill Road, Belfast, BT6 8AW | ICO number: ZA539181 |
| 4 | HMA Property Services Ltd | Company number: 14728607 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | |
| 5 | HMA Tax (Dubai) Ltd | Company number: 14707145 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | |
| 6 | HMA Tax (International) Ltd | Company number: 14529671 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB534038 |
| 7 | HMA Tax (Offshore) Ltd | Company number: 14990789 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | |
| 8 | Intax Ltd | Company number: 11271031 Registered office address: 20 St. Andrew Street, London, England, EC4A 3AG | ICO number: ZA424021 |
| 9 | K3 Advantage Ltd | Company number: 15294829 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB664F328 |
| 10 | K3 Debt Advisory Ltd | Company number: 13326242 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB054710 |
| 11 | K3 Law Ltd | Company number: 13175495 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB693634 |
| 12 | K3 Tax Advisory Ltd | Company number: 13381540 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB071392 |
| 13 | KBS Capital Markets Ltd | Company number: 11164985 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | |
| 14 | KBS Corporate Finance Ltd | Company number: 08924449 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZA236843 |
| 15 | KBS Corporate Sales Ltd | Company number: 04141555 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: Z9151884 |
| 16 | Knight Corporate Finance Ltd | Company number: 06773338 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: Z2947739 |
| 17 | Knight R&D Ltd | Company number: 10271074 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZA728120 |
| 18 | Knightsbridge Business Sales Ltd (trading as Knightsbridge Commercial) | Company number: 08924297 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZA236848 |
| 19 | KR8 Advisory Limited | Company number: 16078236 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, United Kingdom, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB853397 |
| 20 | KR8 Real Estate Limited | Company number: 16080636 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, United Kingdom, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB853390 |
| 21 | Market Mapping Ltd (trading as Origin IQ) | Company number: 12835170 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZA796709 |
| 22 | Pinnacle Computing (Support) Ltd | Company number: NI026898 Registered office address: Pinnacle House, 153 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 3HX | ICO number: ZA298419 |
| 23 | Pinnacle Computing Ltd | Company number: IE283485 Registered office address: Clonmel House, Forster way, Swords, County Dublin | ICO number: ZA298419 |
| 24 | Professional Insight Marketing Ltd (trading as JE Consulting) | Company number: 05883501 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZA340910 |
| 29 | Quantuma Advisory (Yorkshire) Ltd | Company number: 03488487 Registered office address: Resolution House, 12 Mill Hill, Leeds, LS1 5DQ | ICO number: Z9077007 |
| 30 | Quantuma Advisory Ltd | Company number: 12743937 Registered office address: 20 St. Andrew Street, London, England, EC4A 3AG | ICO number: ZA776330 |
| 32 | Quantuma Corporate Finance Ltd | Company number: 12579748 Registered office address: 20 St. Andrew Street, London, England, EC4A 3AG | |
| 37 | RandD UK Ltd | Company number: 06648783 Registered office address: Kbs House 5 Springfield Court, Summerfield Road, Bolton, England, BL3 2NT | ICO number: ZB298677 |
Chief Executive Officer’s statement
K3 is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all its business dealings and relationships and to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in its own business or in any of its supply chains.
K3 is alert to the risks posed and has implemented internal mandatory policies and procedures aimed at good conduct and business ethics from our people and in our business dealings which are described more fully below.
K3 opposes slavery and human trafficking in all its forms including child labour and will not conduct business with organisations which, upon enquiry, fail to properly explain their business or whose supply chain is not deemed equivalent to the group’s own high standards.
K3’s processes and controls to identify and combat slavery and human trafficking have been enhanced over the past financial year as described below.
About K3 – Our Organisational Structure
K3 is a multi-disciplinary business advisory firm which delivers professional services to clients, including corporate finance and business sales, tax advisory, insolvency and restructuring, accounting in support of disputes and valuations, data and technology services and financial services.
In the United Kingdom, K3’s has offices across the UK with its key locations in Manchester and London, with offices also in Europe and Asia.
At the time this statement was published, the group has over 1007 employees located in the UK, of which 154 hold senior management positions. The vast majority of the group’s employees are in professional services business advisory and supporting roles.
In addition to a centralised group board and management team, we operate centralised functions such as, Finance, Legal, Compliance and Operations which exercise oversight of all of our businesses wherever they are located. Together, these functions under my oversight manage the processes we have in place to combat slavery and human trafficking risk. We also operate centralised governance, with policies and procedures being applicable to all our group companies and the staff they employ.
No industry is immune to modern slavery and human trafficking which can be hard to detect and can look like “ordinary work”. As an organisation it is therefore critical to assess the risks relative to the business services we provide and the way we operate.
Business risk
Maintaining our business integrity and high ethical standards is fundamental to K3’s culture and our working relationships. We are committed to ensuring that our ongoing business operations continue to be free from modern slavery and human trafficking.
We endorse the transparency that the Modern Slavery Act encourages and the professional referrers we work with are subjected to due diligence processes, which obligate them to respect human rights including the elimination of slavery and human trafficking within their business operations and supply chains. Contractors and consultants working on site at our premises also have the right to protection against slavery or human trafficking as part of the Group’s Whistleblowing Policy.
We have not in the past financial year identified any instances of modern slavery or human trafficking in our organisation.
Supply chain risk
Given the nature of the Group’s business, we have determined that our primary area of focus for the purposes of addressing the risk of slavery and human trafficking in our business lies in our supply chain rather than within our primary businesses.
The supply chain includes both external suppliers and professional service advisers (i.e. lawyers, accountants) that we instruct on assignments. We expect all of our suppliers and advisers to be similarly opposed to slavery and human trafficking.
External suppliers provide the following services to the Group: cleaning and catering, hospitality, IT equipment, software, consultancy, payroll, audit, legal services, office consumables such as stationery, office fit-out and maintenance. Most of the suppliers that we deal with are firms based in the UK. K3 has a preference for working with a smaller number of preferred suppliers and professional advisers and we have long-term relationships with many, although we do not consider ourselves dependent on any. During the last financial year we have developed a new procurement policy to be implemented in the coming financial year which incorporates enhanced supplier due diligence. This means that any new key or material supplier to K3 is subject to enhanced due diligence in the on-boarding process which requires disclosures to be made relating to slavery and human trafficking. We will continue not to work with suppliers who do not share our values and who cannot demonstrate with reasonable confidence that they do not have modern slavery or human trafficking in their organisations.
We have not in the past financial year identified any instances of modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chain.
Policies and training
To ensure all staff are aware of and have a clear understanding of the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking within our business, we require all staff regardless of their seniority to confirm they have read and understood this statement as part of the firms’ Annual Policy Declaration. We actively track this policy acceptance.
In the past financial year we have issued a new Corporate Social Responsibility Policy which details how, amongst other things, we are committed to social responsibility and good conduct including ensuring our business operations continue to be free from slavery and human trafficking.
The Group’s Whistleblowing Policy is also available for our employees, consultants and contractors to report anything in breach of this policy.
We invest in educating all our staff. Training courses include slavery and human trafficking and associated risks in our business and supply chains, training aimed at combatting financial crime including anti-bribery and corruption and an anti-harassment policy in addition to other conduct training, all designed to drive positive behaviours in our organisation and an inclusive and respectful, speak-up culture.
Continuous review and improvement
The size and nature of our business has grown considerably over recent years and we have added several new divisions, all in the professional services space. We will continue to review our working practices, train our colleagues and review our externals supplier and adviser relationships with regard to opposing slavery and human trafficking to ensure that they remain robust and effective. We will continue to respond to Modern Slavery Act information requests from our clients.
Board Approval
This statement was approved by the Board of K3 Capital Group Limited.
Michael Cauter
Chief Executive Officer
On behalf of the board of K3 Capital Group Limited