Pictured: William Colacicchi, Senior Partner at Browne
Jacobson
Law firm Browne Jacobson can announce ten new legal appointments
across its three office network as part of a major expansion
drive.
The appointments follow on from a successful twelve months
during which the firm generated turnover exceeding £35m and
announced plans to expand its Nottingham operations by moving into
60,000 sq ft of space at Mowbray House.
The ten appointments cut across the firm's four core sectors -
corporate, health, insurance and public sector. In addition, the
firm is retaining six of its trainee solicitors on completion of
their training contracts this September bringing the total number
of lawyers at the firm to 301.
The new appointments include:
London
◦ Associate Michelle Leonard joins the firm's Construction
& Property Risk team from the Real Estate Disputes Team at
Taylor Wessing. Michelle is an experienced contentious real estate
lawyer, having acted for a variety of public and large private
property investment and development companies, fund managers and
high net-worth individuals.
Nottingham
◦ Associate Paul Simpson joins the corporate team from HLW
Commercial Lawyers, Sheffield, specialising in mergers &
acquisitions and group re-organisations.
◦ Andrew Needham joins the firm's corporate team from
Eversheds in Nottingham where he recently qualified.
◦ Solicitor Anja Beriro joins the firm's public sector
team from Sheffield City Council where she specialised in
commercial contract, public funding, procurement and project
matters as well as local authority governance issues.
◦ Ruby Jhita is a newly qualified Solicitor joining the
Construction & Property Risk Team from SNR Denton
Birmingham
◦ Associate Jonathan Hayden joins the Commercial Health
team from Mills & Reeve. Jonathan has extensive experience
advising healthcare commissioners and providers on a variety of
contracts and projects.
◦ Newly qualified solicitor Priscilla Wan joins the firm's
property team in Birmingham from Rosenblatt Solicitors, London.
◦ Solicitor David Toulmin-Van Sittert joins the firm's
insurance and public risk team from the Claims Solutions group at
Beachcrofts. He is an seasoned personal injury litigator with
extensive experience of handling small track, fast track and multi
track claims, particularly in relation to investigating fraudulent
activity, indemnity issues and medical causation.
◦ Rebecca Richards-Highfield joins from Keoghs. She is an
experienced personal injury executive, specialising in counter
fraud and defendant personal injury claims.
◦ Legal Executive Nisha Sandhu has joined the personal
injury team from Buller Jeffries.
William Colacicchi, Senior Partner at Browne Jacobson,
commented:
"These appointments build on the success that we achieved over
the last year and their arrival will further strengthen our already
strong and growing core sector teams. It is an exciting time for
them to be joining Browne Jacobson and we are confident they will
be a welcome asset to the firm and its clients for years to
come."
For more information about Browne Jacobson, please visit their
website here: www.brownejacobson.com