Business community gears up for charity boxing event
LEEDS’s restructuring and insolvency community will be swapping business suits for boxing gloves and gum shields in preparation for a White Collar Boxing event.
Hosted by law firm Squire Sanders Hammonds and compered by David Parkin of TheBusinessDesk.com, the event in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice will be held at The Queens Hotel Leeds on September 22.
Before testing their agility in the ring, the group of ten aspiring boxers, including Squire Sanders Hammonds’ associates Chris Keane and Richard Martin, Joel Edwards at BDO, Robert Perrie at Aldermore Bank, James Leatham and Jamie Yates from GVA Grimley, Stephen Baldwin from PKF, James Findlay from PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Joseph Battye and Matthew Russell of Begbies Traynor Group, must first make it through the intensive 14 week training regime at the Rick Manners School of Boxing.
Laura Crawford, event organiser and restructuring and insolvency partner at Squire Sanders Hammonds, said: “White collar boxing is a unique way for our contenders to try something new whilst at the same time raising funds for this very worthy cause.
“The Leeds restructuring and insolvency community have been incredibly supportive and I’m confident we will raise a significant amount of money for Martin House Children’s Hospice.”
White Collar Boxing was started in the US after two Wall Street businessmen bet on who would be still standing if they went three rounds in the ring at the local boxing gym.
