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- Clarion Solicitors Advises on MBO for Leading Agricultural Loss Adjusters
20.03.08
Leeds law firm Clarion Solicitors has advised the management of the UK's leading agricultural loss adjusters, Agrical Ltd, in a management buy-out of the firm.The deal will see current MD, Mike Collins, assume the role of Chief Executive Officer and Director, and Nigel Collinson become the firm's new Managing Director. Current CEO, Bob Morris will remain with Agrical Ltd in the role of Chairman.The company was formed in January 2002 following the merger of Morris Associates and Phoenix Chartered Loss Adjusters, and over the last six years has grown to become the UK's leading provider...
- Star Studded Sports Quiz and Dinner Raises Money for St Gemma’s
12.03.08
The fifth annual St Gemma's Sports Quiz and Dinner took place at Elland Road on Thursday 6th March and raised a massive £32,320 for the hospice. The event, sponsored by law firm Clarion Solicitors, was supported by the region's business community and celebrities from the sporting world, who battled it out to show off their sports knowledge.The hospice received an extra boost as Mike Tomlinson donated an additional £20,000 to the hospice, paying tribute to his wife Jane who spent her final days there.The evening, hosted by Calendar's Duncan Wood and Jon Hammond, saw...
- Leeds Lawyers Rise To Everest Charity Challenge
07.03.08
Eight members of leading law firm Clarion Solicitors donned their climbing gear to scale The Everest Challenge on Saturday 8th March and raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care.The event at The Leeds Wall on Gelderd Road was part of the Marie Curie Cancer Care's 60th Anniversary celebrations. This spring, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the world's greatest living explorer, will also be climbing the real Everest to raise money for the charity. Two teams from Clarion Solicitors joined climbers from across Leeds, as they competed in 90 minute relays scaling the wall.Julia Pearson, assistant solicitor and member...
- Leeds Law Firm Awarded ‘Mentoring Company of the Year’
28.11.07
Leeds law firm, Clarion Solicitors, has been awarded ‘Mentoring Company of the Year 2007' by Education Leeds.The firm was awarded the accolade at the mentoring scheme's annual event, held at the Leeds Civic Hall on Wednesday 21st November. Clarion Solicitors has provided mentors for the scheme since 2003. This year, 11 solicitors volunteered to work with AS level law students across the city, mentoring teenagers who otherwise have no contact with people from the legal profession. Helen Gott, trainee solicitor at the firm, has worked with the scheme for several years, sharing her invaluable experience. This year she...
- Leeds Law Firm Brings In A New Draft Of Trainees
12.11.07
Clarion Solicitors has announced the appointment of five new trainee solicitors.Three of the new recruits, Susannah Colmer, Koby Gyasi and Justine White, previously held paralegal roles at the firm, whilst Deborah Warren and Stuart Cobbett joined on completion of university degrees.Susannah, Koby, Deborah and Justine join the Corporate and Commercial Department with Stuart starting in Clarion's sector leading Corporate Recovery team.Managing Partner Mark Burns said, "For a growing law firm like Clarion, graduate recruitment is a central focus of our efforts to attract all the skills possible to the firm. We are delighted to welcome...
- Leeds Law Firm Confirms Continued Sponsorship Of Leeds 10k RunLeeds Law Firm Confirms Continued Sponsorship Of Leeds 10k Run
07.11.07
Clarion Solicitors has announced that it intends to continue its sponsorship of Corporate Challenge in the Leeds 10k Run For All.In addition to being the sponsor of the Corporate Challenge and Team Challenge Elements of the event, the firm also won the award for Best Fundraiser in the Corporate Challenge.Next year's event on June 22nd will see a repeat of the Corporate Challenge event within the Run For All that will see firms from across the city compete against each other not only for athletic bragging rights but also to raise the most money for charity.Clarion...
- Leeds Law Firm Takes On Three New Solicitors
07.11.07
Clarion Solicitors has announced the permanent appointment of three new members to its team.The newly qualified solicitors, all previously on training contracts with the firm are Laura Mitchell, Hannah Montague and Stephanie Thirlwell. Each of them proved their exceptional abilities in last year's training programmes. They have been chosen to bolster the already successful employment, property and business crime teams. Laura Mitchell, originally from Rochdale, attended the University of Nottingham before completing her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in York. She has taken on a role in the Employment team which forms part of the...
- Leeds Lawyers Scale Snowdon
15.10.07
Nine members of leading law firm Clarion Solicitors pulled on their hiking boots on Sunday 7th October, when they climbed Mount Snowdon in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care. The trek was in memory of Richard Farmer, brother of a long standing Clarion employee. Richard Farmer, brother of Mollie Parker, one of Clarion's senior administrators, died of cancer on Friday 24th August. He was a keen sportsman and loved playing and latterly watching rugby.Mollie tells us that "Richard was an iron-willed man who rarely complained, preferring to see the positives in everything. I think he...
- Clarion Celebrate Leading Lights in Law
17.07.07
Clarion Solicitors, one of Leeds' leading law firms, has celebrated the best of Leeds University's young up-and-coming lawyers with the presentation of its prestigious Law Prizes. Awarded for their exceptional work in areas including International Human Rights and Nature Conservation, four students were presented with cheques for £100. The Ten Credit Module prize was awarded to Katie Tunstall and Vanessa Musker for gaining the maximum marks in any given course. The Company Law prize was awarded to Alex Lofthouse and Yiting Xu for achieving the top marks in the company law module.Mark Burns, from Clarion...
- New Employment Department Head for Clarion Solicitors LLP
16.07.07
Clarion Solicitors LLP is delighted to announce the appointment of Richard Port as a Partner and Head of the Employment Department. Richard, who has immense experience of advising corporate clients on all facets of employment law, joined on 9 July from Addleshaw Goddard."It's a challenging time for employers, which offers great potential for employment lawyers who can innovate and deliver," said Richard. "Opportunities like this don't come round very often. The Clarion Partners have a clear strategy to build on their major presence as a firm of choice in the local legal...
- Running Bug Court By Leeds Lawyers
21.06.07
Legal eagles at Leeds law firm Clarion Solicitors stepped on to the running track for the last time yesterday as they completed six months of preparations for the first Leeds 10k Corporate Challenge.After passing tests in running technique, pacing and race day nutrition, the team declared themselves ready to race.. Front of mind, thought wasn't Sunday's race but Monday's reinstatement of meeting room pastries and biscuits, banned under their strict training regime.Out too were boardroom meetings, and in were partner briefings on adjacent treadmills at the gym. And for the last week, gone...
- Clarion Solicitors Help Save Doncaster Lakers with CVA
31.05.07
Doncaster Lakers have been saved from liquidation after creditors approved a Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) to compromise more than a million pounds of debt. With legal assistance from Leeds-based Clarion Solicitors, insolvency practitioners O'Hara & Co presented the CVA to unsecured creditors who subsequently voted to accept an offer of 2p in the pound for the debts owed, allowing Doncaster Lakers to continue trading.Clarion Solicitors drew up the CVA and acted on behalf of O'Hara & Co, supervisor of the CVA. Ryan Millmore, partner at Clarion Solicitors said: "This is great news for a club that...
- Toasting the launch of ClarioNet
11.04.07
Champagne bar Epernay provided the perfect backdrop for the hottest networking event in Leeds, which marked the launch of ClarioNet - the new networking forum for the city's professionals, organised by lawyers at Clarion Solicitors .The guest list was made up of professionals from businesses across Leeds and beyond, including from the Bank of Scotland, Yorkshire Bank, Leeds Building Society, Bentley Jennison, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Grant Thornton UK LLP, Sanderson Weatherall, Mazars, GVA Grimley, O'Hara & Co and Rensburg Sheppards.Previously known as MyLaw, the networking group has been renamed ClarioNet following the management buy-out which took place in February this...
- Leading Leeds law firm Clarion Solicitors, has announced four new internal promotions
04.04.07
Corporate team deal makers Daniel O'Gorman and Christian Hunt have been made partners in the firm and the property team's Alison Batty and Lucie-Jane Hugill have been promoted to senior associate. Hunt, qualified in 2001, and joined the firm in 2005. He is one of the region's pre-eminent corporate finance specialists, handling high profile mergers and acquisitions work, restructures and re-financing in the firm's fastest growing practice group.O'Gorman joined Clarion in 2006 after spending ten years at Travers Smith. Like Hunt, O'Gorman is also a corporate finance specialist. He specialises in listed...
- Clarion Solicitors LLP Invite Yorkshire Businesses To Set The Pace
27.03.07
Businesses across Yorkshire are being urged to get off the starting blocks and enter teams in a major new athletic event for people of all abilities inspired by cancer heroine Jane Tomlinson. Entry packages were launched today for the Clarion Solicitors LLP Corporate Challenge, an innovative, business-focused element of the Leeds 10k Run For All, which takes place on Sunday June 24. The whole event is expected to attract 10,000 participants, raising huge sums for charities of their choice and those supported by the organisers. Sponsor of the Corporate and Team Challenge elements of the run, which has already attracted 4,000 entrants, is...
- Clarion Solicitors LLP Become Principal Sponsors of Phoenix Dance Theatre
12.03.07
Phoenix Dance Theatre is delighted to announce a new partnership with Clarion Solicitors LLP. The two Leeds-based companies have established a three-year agreement, during which time Clarion Solicitors LLP will be Phoenix's principal sponsor. The sponsorship will aid Phoenix's production of new works for UK touring, as well as the company's acclaimed education and outreach activities.Clarion Solicitors LLP is the new name for one of the outstanding legal practices in Leeds, representing a unique project among contemporary law firms. It emerged as a complete all-round legal practice of over a hundred...
- Clarion Solicitors LLP Advise Numis Securities on Broca plc Demerger and Admission to AIM
06.03.07
Leading Leeds-based law firm Clarion Solicitors LLP has announced that it has advised Numis Securities, the nominated adviser and broker to 2ergo Group Plc and Broca Plc, on the demerger from 2ergo Group Plc of its subsidiary, Broca Communications Limited, and the admission of Broca Plc - the new holding company of Broca Communications Limited - to trading on AIM, the market operated by the London Stock Exchange.The Broca group is developing technology to enable communications to be made securely from mobile telecommunications equipment. Potential uses for the group's technology include the making of cardholder-not-present payments via mobile...
- Clarion Solicitors LLP Open Their Account On £14.5m Sale
05.03.07
Leading Yorkshire law firm Clarion Solicitors LLP has announced that it has acted for the shareholders in Wakefield-based company, Alphanumeric Limited on its £14.5million sale to Digital Marketing Group plc. Alphanumeric, who also have offices in Derby and Oxford, is a leading independent provider of marketing credit and fraud consultancy services, specialising in data interrogation and analysis. Since its inception in 1999, Alphanumeric has achieved consistent growth, and in 2006 enjoyed a 98 per cent increase in turnover on the previous year.This is the first major deal undertaken by the experienced corporate team at Clarion Solicitors LLP following...
- Management Buy-Out of McCormicks’ Leeds Practice
31.01.07
Six equity partners at the Leeds practice of Yorkshire law firm McCormicks have agreed to carry out a management buy-out of the practice, buying out the partnership shares of founding partner Peter McCormick and his two longest-serving colleagues, Neil Goodrum and Geoff Rogers. The six - Mark Burns, Clive Lawrence, Roger Hutton, Richard Moran, Robert Rode and Simon Young - will complete the acquisition at the end of January and will then trade as Clarion Solicitors LLP. The three-partner team led by Peter McCormick will continue to operate as McCormicks Solicitors, retaining all rights to the use of the trading...
- McCormicks Adds to Family Team
14.12.06
McCormicks has added to its family team with the appointment of assistant solicitor Lisa Russell.