The merger officially completed on 1 June with staff at the enlarged Mills & Reeve Manchester office in 1 New York Street arriving today (3 June) for the first working day of the newly expanded firm. Now occupying the 8th and 9th floors of 1 New York Street, the office has a total of 15 partners and 87 other staff.
Nationally Mills & Reeve has 111 partners and 870 staff operating from six offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester and Norwich.
Guy Hinchley, Mills & Reeve managing partner, said: “This is an exciting day for the firm with a substantially enhanced presence in the North allowing us to deliver our strategy of providing a full range of legal services to clients in our key sectors.
“Pre-merger our Manchester office had built a strong reputation in family, insurance disputes and private client work but this takes our offering to a different level. We now have substantial corporate, employment, construction real estate and commercial disputes teams on the ground as well.
“The merger has also enabled us to add sport to our list of sector specialisms, which already includes education, health, insurance, private wealth, agriculture, charities, food and beverage, real estate investment and technology. We are pleased to now be able to represent high profile sport clients such as the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the Professional Footballers’ Association.”
Mark Hovell, the former George Davies managing partner, now heads up the Mills & Reeve Manchester office and the new sport sector. He added: “Mills & Reeve and George Davies have a great deal of synergy and it’s great to be able to combine the Mills & Reeve sector expertise with a full service offering in Manchester to provide clients with a truly first class proposition.”
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