Pictured above: Chris Rawstron with new associates
Andrew Brennan, Nick Hinton, Emily Aviss, Philip Kelly and Felicity
Ho
Five Midlands lawyers are celebrating taking a step up the legal
ladder.
Emily Aviss, Andrew Brennan, Nick Hinton, Felicity Ho and Philip
Kelly have all been promoted associates in the Birmingham
office of DLA Piper.
Office managing partner Chris Rawstron praised their
achievements, saying: "It is always pleasing to see young talent
emerge and develop. These are all very well deserved
appointments."
"We believe they have future leadership potential and the
necessary strengths and qualities to play important parts in the
future development of our firm."
Ms Aviss advises UK and international clients in relation to
mergers and acquisitions work and has experience in both private
equity and plc transactions.
Andrew Brennan joined the Birmingham office in 2004 after
completing his training contract at DLA Piper's Leeds office.
He specialises in intellectual property litigation and dispute
resolution across the broad spectrum of intellectual property
rights. He has extensive trial experience in the High Court as well
as handling appeals from the Patent Office.
Nick Hinton works in all areas of corporate and business tax. He
has experience of advising on the taxation consequences of
corporate and property transactions, including in relation to VAT,
stamp duty and stamp duty land tax.
He also has experience in establishing, administering and
amending employee incentive share option arrangements.
Felicity Ho is a dual qualified solicitor and barrister in the
Insurance and Reinsurance group. She acts for some of the
world's leading insurers.
Ms Ho specialises in industrial disease claims but has a varied
caseload ranging from insurance fraud matters to employers
liability and public liability claims.
She has a particular interest in noise induced deafness and
vibration white finger. She handles matters involving industrial
asthma, dermatitis and repetitive strain injury.
In terms of insurance fraud, she gets involved in phantom
passenger, contrived and staged accident claims.
Philip Kelly is a commercial litigation solicitor, involved in
commercial disputes between major corporates and
institutions. He joined DLA Piper as a trainee in
2003. Ms Aviss and Mr Hinton are also former trainees with the
firm.