Walker Morris swoops for banking litigation team at Cobbetts

LAW firm Walker Morris has acquired Cobbetts’s 27-strong Leeds-based banking litigation team.

The acquisition includes partners Andrew Bennett and Ciaran Corry and brings the Walker Morris banking litigation team to five partners and 47 fee earners.

Ian Gilbert, managing partner at Leeds-based Walker Morris, said: “The opportunity to bring two leading banking litigation teams together was too good an opportunity to miss.

“The acquired team has an excellent reputation and the client base fits extremely well with our own highly rated team. 

“The combination of the two teams reinforces our client offering in terms of capacity, resource and skill set and neatly fits our strategy of building nationally recognised specialist groups.”