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handl Group doesn’t invest in just any business. We operate in four key areas – expert witness and assessment services, health and wellbeing, complex rehab and ancillary insurance & claims fulfillment – identifying opportunities to increase the flexibility of our companies to work across markets. Providing business leaders with experienced guidance from our board and divisional directors, we support you with long-term thinking and the space to develop your own expertise.
It’s all powered by our approach – People + tech – so you can innovate, enable growth, deliver success and excel in your chosen field.
We help you work in new ways, with new divisional partners, to harness new opportunities.
We give you the tools to realise long-term strategies and build lasting partnerships.
Our divisional expertise and frameworks help you deliver high quality, high demand services to more and more clients.
We help you lead in your industry – without sacrificing your autonomy.
handl Group isn’t just an investor. We don’t deliver growth for your business as part of our portfolio by providing financial support and stepping away. Instead, we identify opportunities and apply our unique, proven approach to business transformation. People + tech.
We begin with opportunity. Customers trust handl Group companies – and when they trust us, they bring us new opportunities to develop products and services that meet the demands our customers reveal.
With an opportunity identified, your growth continues with people. We’ve helped start-ups recruit expert teams to hit the ground running, helped long-time employees become forward-thinking senior managers, and guided businesses through acquisitions that give them a new drive, impetus or goal. It’s all about putting people in place to meet changing demands.
Your growth is empowered by the right technology. We give our businesses the backing to develop new technological solutions to business problems, and help them to share ideas across divisions to improve efficiency and customer service.
With a focus on building services to meet real needs, we’ll give you everything you need to thrive.
Growth comes from the freedom to explore new ideas, supported by proven expertise. Each of our companies is autonomous, free to pursue their own avenues for growth, define their own strategies and develop their own ideas.
But autonomous doesn’t mean alone. Each of our organisations also fits within a divisional framework, providing them with:
If you have compelling ideas and a strong case for investment, handl will back them, giving you everything you need to generate real, sustainable growth as part of our group of companies.
"I always enjoy working with the handl team. The insights shared makes the process easy to manage. The parties are always onside with handl, they bring everyone along with them. Very good communicators and negotiators who deliver with ease."
Heather Summers, Corporate Partner, Excello Law
Even the biggest success stories begin with a single idea. Ours started in 1998, with an idea to grow Speed Medical into a market leader. Over two decades and 21 success stories later, here we are.
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1998
Speedmedical
Established 1998
Now recognised as the largest independent medico-legal reporting provider, Speed Medical began as a specialist provider of medico-legal reports to the legal and insurance sectors. Speed Medical would grow over the next decade to become the award-winning market leader and diversify into new verticals with more complementary services, including treatment and rehabilitation.
2004
Susan Henry
Susan Henry joins Speed Medical as Operations Director, and will later become a divisional Managing Director with several brands under her remit
2004
Graham Pulford
Joins Speed Medical as Managing Director, and will later become handl Group Chief Executive Officer
2007
Caroline Arrowsmith
Caroline Arrowsmith joins Speed Medical as a Key Account Manager, and will later become a divisional Commercial Director.
2010
Chris Chatterton
Chatterton joins as Commercial Director, adding his wealth of experience to our growing talent base. Chris is currently Chief Commercial Officer and a Portfolio Director at handl Group.
2013
MLA
Established 1990
Acquired June 2013
An acquisition in complex medico-legal reporting broadening the customer base.
MLA specialises in complex and industrial disease (ID) medico-legal reports. The acquisition
of the UK’s longest-standing heritage medico-legal business helped us corner the market in
Industrial Disease and Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) and begin to expand into new
areas, such as housing disrepair.
2014
Coplus
Established 1998
Acquired May 2014
Acquired for claims handling and underwriting expertise.
Coplus provides 24/7 claims handling services and builds and markets ancillary insurance
products, allowing us to work more prominently within the insurance sector – specifically as
part of the claims lifecycle.
handl Group is investing in an innovative platform helping insurers and brokers to bring
products to the market faster
2014
Ian Robins
Ian joins as Chief Financial Officer in Speed, and later becomes handl Group Chief Financial Officer
2016
Corporé & TTN
Established 1998
Acquired March 2016
Acquired to build a footprint with direct general insurers, adding new clinical
services to the group’s capabilities.
With the acquisition of Corporé and The Treatment Network, we were able to move into
serious injury rehabilitation case management, as the group continued to branch out into
new areas and embrace new strategic opportunities
2017
Sharon Butler-Hughes
Sharon Butler-Hughes joins Speed Medical as a Financial Controller, and will later become a divisional Finance Director.
2017
Foresight
Established 2007
Acquired June 2018
Handl Group’s first investment in family and criminal reporting.
Foresight has a long, proud history of psychological reporting for the courts. The company
provides expert witness reports for the criminal and family law verticals, allowing us to
operate more closely with law firms around the UK.
2019
handl Group
Launched June 2019
The formation of handl Group.
With five brands under our umbrella and a desire to make further acquisitions, it was time
for a change. We rebranded FL360 to become handl Group and started an acceleration of
growth, through launching and investing in start-ups and through acquisition, that continues
to this day.
2019
Dan Franklin joins as an M&A Advisor, later taking up the role of Chief Strategy Officer.
2019
EQL
Invested February 2019
Launched June 2019
Seed capital in the rapidly evolving health-tech space.
As handl Group, we were able to launch new brands and early-stage businesses as well as
acquire them – the first being EQL, a specialist tech company providing a range of solutions.
EQL’s ground-breaking first product, Phio, offers digital triage and treatment for
musculoskeletal injuries.
2019
Harrison Associates
Established 1985
Acquired April 2019
Investment in life changing injury management services.
Harrison Associates fit in seamlessly with our existing portfolio of serious injury case
management and expert witness reporting businesses, expanding further into the fields of
catastrophic injuries.
2019
Claimspace
Invested 2019
Launched April 2019
An investment in doing things differently – addressing litigation time and costs.
Another tech launch, this time a digitally-enabled start-up set to challenge and change the
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) market in personal injury.
2019
Advanced CCA
Established 2005
Acquired November 2019
The Group’s first investment in the social care space.
handl Group continued to expand in the expert witness field, acquiring Advanced Child Care
Assessments – later renamed as Advanced CCA, a leading provider of independent social
work assessments.
2020
2020
Reach
Established 1995
Acquired December 2020
First investment in home-based rehabilitation.
Reach is the only national provider of community and home-based rehab to people with
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS) and head trauma. As experts in
traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, Reach broadened our specialist rehabilitation offering
for injured parties recovering from mild to catastrophic brain and head injuries, while
solidifying our portfolio’s links with case management and insurance companies
2021
Mind Right
Invested 2020
Launched February 2021
Backed the formation of a start-up with seed customers from within the group.
We launched Mind Right as a start-up to transform psychological rehab and provide a better
way of doing things in Personal Injury (PI) and occupational medicine. The right way. The
Mind Right way. To eliminate treatment drift and transform psychological rehabilitation by
providing a highly focused, stepped care approach.
2021
Cogent Hire
Invested 2020
Launched June 2021
Seed financing and customers from within the group to support a challenger
business model.
Launched by handl as a start-up credit hire brand, Cogent Hire is an industry disruptor
focused on removing the infamous friction that makes life difficult for insurers, businesses
and drivers alike – and on challenging the status quo for an entire industry.
2021
Robertson Cooper
Established 1997
Acquired in December 2021
An investment in strategic consulting.
Experts in workplace wellbeing and resilience strategies, training and measurement to
global brands, Robertson Cooper started life as a university spin-off, before growing to serve
the corporate market.
2022
IPRS Health
Established 1995
Acquired in April 2022
A step into PMI and occupational medicine with employed clinicians.
An award-winning occupational health and rehabilitation services provider, IPRS Health helps
us to provide innovative treatments that deliver enhanced results for clients without sending
client costs spiralling. This acquisition saw handl Group’s portfolio expand in the corporate
and insurance sectors, in addition to building on the capabilities of our existing brands.
2022
Aeromed
Established 2001
Acquired in April 2022
Investment into government outsourcing contracts.
Providing international medics, court custody health, and ambulance and paramedic
services to clients including the Home Office, Aeromed’s specialities mean that handl can
now offer an even wider range of specialist medical services.
2022
PFAS
Established 2012
Acquired in April 2022
Supporting the Department of Work and Pensions.
An independent provider of quality medical assessments for individuals with a health
condition or disability, this acquisition increased handl’s employed clinician headcount whilst
expanding our range of clinical assessments.
2022
Kikko Health
Established 2002
Acquired in April 2022
The first product-led handl Group acquisition.
Kikko Health, previously IPRS Mediquipe, is a rehabilitation and performance technology partner to elite sports organisations, private practices, the NHS and academic institutions, providing world‑class equipment, expert consultancy, CPD‑accredited training and comprehensive aftercare so they can deliver faster, safer and more measurable improvements in human performance and rehabilitation outcomes.
2022
We’ve Got The Key
Established in 2022
Launched in June 2022
The answer to our market consolidation opportunity.
We’ve Got the Key is a national locksmith service boasting the largest team of auto locksmiths in the country. But more than that, they’re a key partner for insurers, fleet managers and trade customers, answering the admin and cost challenges of accessing vehicles while consolidating handl Group’s position in a growing market.
2024
Paediatric Specialist Physiotherapy
Established in 2010
Acquired in June 2024
One of the most advanced spasticity services in the UK
PSP offers support, care and neurological rehabilitation across the UK, with a focus on helping children and infants. Joining handl Group’s growing health and wellbeing division, PSP will help us improve our neuro-rehab services and offer some of the most advanced spasticity care in the country.
2024
Osiris Health
Established in 2010
Acquired in June 2024
Specialists in advanced healthcare for brain injury
Sister company of PSP, Osiris Health’s specialisms in adult neuro-rehab and advanced healthcare for traumatic and acquired brain injuries mean that handl Group’s health and wellbeing now has one of the most well rounded and expert groups of rehabilitation experts in the country.
Osiris merged with PSP in June 2025.
2024
WillisPalmer
Established in 2004
Acquired in September 2024
Supporting children and families
For over 20 years, WillisPalmer has provided local authorities and the family courts with the expert assessments and services needed to protect children and support families. Bringing together psychologists, psychiatrists, forensic risk experts, family support workers and independent social workers, WillisPalmer have established a reputation as a leading provider of multi-disciplinary services across the UK.
Susan Henry is promoted to Divisional Managing Director – Expert Witness and Assessment Services
Caroline Arrowsmith is promoted to Divisional Commercial Director – Expert Witness and Assessment Services
2025
Sharon Butler-Hughes is promoted to Financial Director – Expert Witness and Assessment Services
2026
Janette Wynn joins as Managing Director – Complex Rehabilitation