Professionals: Clarion; Lupton Fawcett Denison Till; Triton Global
YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB has announced that Leeds law firm Clarion has become one of its club partners.
As part of the partnership, Clarion will provide legal services to cricket’s most successful club.
Andy Dawson, commercial director of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, said: “We needed to appoint a firm we could rely on and were impressed by Clarion’s technical expertise, commercial acumen and enthusiasm. With a strong track record of working with winning businesses in Yorkshire and beyond, we believe they are a great fit with us and will add real value.”
Roger Hutton, joint managing partner of Clarion, said: “It’s fantastic to have been chosen to work with one of the region’s most renowned sporting institutions. The club’s talent, passion and winning spirit is in perfect synergy with our own ethos. This appointment demonstrates the strength of our commercial offering as well as our intellectual property, real estate and employment expertise, and is another key milestone in the firm’s development. “
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THE York office of law firm Denison Till is celebrating a 35% increase in turnover and 15 new people on the team just a year after its merger.
Denison Till, which has offices in Piccadilly in the city centre, merged with Leeds and Sheffield-based Lupton Fawcett Lee & Priestley 12 months ago to create a firm with 280 staff and more than 140 executives.
At the time of the announcement, Richard Marshall, managing director of the merged firms, stated that Lupton Fawcett Denison Till was interested in speaking to first class lawyers and their teams who wanted to be part of the ambitious new firm.
The call attrated a number of lawyers including Jonathan Moore from Harrowells, Elizabeth Webb from Newtons, Paul Sykes from BHP Law, Jeremy Scott from Langleys and Caroline Mockford from Lincoln-based Chattertons.
Three lawyers have also joined from the Leeds office of Lupton Fawcett Denison Till to boost specialisms, namely Erika Sinclair, who looks after private client work, employment lawyer Nathan Coombes and Nigel Whitfield who is a personal insolvency and business recovery specialist. Mr Whitfield has also brought with him from Leeds the debt recovery team which he now oversees.
Richard Marshall, managing director of Lupton Fawcett Denison Till, said: “It is certainly a tough time for law firms at the moment with a number going out of business or decreasing in size. However we are bucking the trend in York as can be seen from our impressive increase in turnover and the quality and experience of the new people joining the firm over the last 12 months.
“We believe the merger has created the only firm in York and North Yorkshire with the breadth of skills and expertise of a big city firm. We are very keen to add more first class lawyers to our team in York, and indeed in Leeds and Sheffield.”
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TRITON GLOBAL, the commercial claims organisation, has recruited Richard Salvini to head up its new liability practice Triton Legal.
Mr Salvini will be based in Leeds and joins the business from Plexus Law where he was a partner.
The liability practice is part of the growth strategy of Triton Global and builds on the back of the success of Triton Claims in the general and commercial liability arenas.
Mr Salvini reports to Neil Trayhurn, global head of legal at the firm. He and his team will be working with clients nationally and internationally through all the offices of the employee–owned business.
Mr Salvini has more than 20 years’ experience across all aspects of defendant insurance claims and litigation. He has extensive expertise in handling higher value cases and also regulatory prosecutions brought by the Health and Safety Executive and other regulatory authorities.
He will head a national team of lawyers specialising in defending health and safety, environmental and regulatory prosecutions, employer, public liability claims, disease, product and property cases.
