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Recognised body -- SRA 8013019

CM Legal Services Limited

Trading as Black Swan Law. Authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since 29 November 2025; status as reported by the SRA on 28 August 2026. Head office Manchester M1 4LF, in the Manchester district.

SRA number
8013019
Authorisation
Recognised body
Authorised since
29 November 2025
Organisation type
Recognised body, authorised
Constitution
Incorporated company (limited by shares)
Practising offices
1
Head office
Manchester M1 4LF
Areas of law reported to the SRA
none recorded
Website (SRA record)
blackswanlaw.co.uk
Companies House status
Active (16634513, file 1 May 2026)
Incorporated
7 August 2025
Company type
Private Limited Company
Trading names
Black Swan Law
SRA firms in Manchester
406 (120 residential property)

CM Legal Services Limited is a recognised body authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since November 2025 and recorded under SRA number 8013019. The SRA record lists 1 practising office: the head office at Linley House, Manchester, M1 4LF. It also trades as Black Swan Law. Its constitution is recorded as incorporated company (limited by shares).

The SRA record carries no areas of law for this firm. The SRA collects these from firms' annual returns, so a blank entry usually means the firm was authorised too recently to have filed one (this firm's authorisation date is 29 November 2025), or that it reported none. It cannot be read as a statement that the firm offers no services.

The head office postcode M1 4LF falls within Manchester (North West), where the SRA register lists 406 authorised firms with a practising office, 120 of them reporting residential property work. The nearest other SRA-regulated firms by straight-line distance from the head office are Latitude Law Limited (100 m, Manchester), O Tse & Co. Limited (100 m, Manchester), Private Capital Trustees Limited (200 m, Manchester), Ascent Performance Group Limited (200 m, Manchester) and Lockett Loveday McMahon (200 m, Manchester). 1 of those 5 reports residential property work.

Companies House records the firm as CM LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED (company number 16634513), a private limited company incorporated on 7 August 2025, 1 year before this snapshot. Its status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026 is "Active". The registered office town is MANCHESTER, the same as the head office.

Offices on the SRA record

OfficeAddressDistrictPhone
Head officeLinley House, Dickinson Street, Manchester, M1 4LFManchester

Areas of law reported to the SRA

none reported

Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.

Companies House record

CM LEGAL SERVICES LIMITED, company number 16634513, private limited company, incorporated 7 August 2025. Status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026: Active. Registered office town: MANCHESTER. Full record on ukcompanyfinder.com.

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Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 28 August 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.

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