Chesterfield legal firms celebrated at regional awards ceremony

4th March 2024

Two Chesterfield legal firms, Banner Jones Solicitors and CMP Legal received accolades at the annual Sheffield & District Law Society Awards.

The team at Banner Jones are celebrating after winning Employment Team of the Year at the event, which took place on the 23rd of February at the historic Crowne Plaza Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield.

The event saw the Employment Team take home the accolade for the third consecutive year.

Commenting on the news, Banner Jones’ Chief Executive, Simon Wright, said: “The Sheffield & District Law Society Awards provide an opportunity for the local legal community to come together to celebrate our many achievements and successes from across the year.

“It is therefore a real privilege and an honour to have been shortlisted in three categories, and to have taken home another of the awards. Our collective success is a real testament to the hard work and dedication that everyone at the firm has shown over the past 12 months.

“A huge congratulations in particular goes to our Employment Law team, who have now won for the third consecutive year!”

Katie Ash, Head of Banner Jones’ Employment team, added: “We are delighted to have won Employment Law Team of the Year for the third time.

“It has been a pleasure to help guide our clients through the past year and we are very much looking forward to building on those relationships throughout 2024 and beyond.”

Meanwhile, fellow Chesterfield solicitors, CMP Legal were also successful at the event, taking home the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year award.

Stacey Pocock, Solicitor and Executive Director at CMP Legal commented: “Winning the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Team of the Year award underlines the effort and hard work that has gone into the creation of CMP Legal since we opened our doors for business three years ago.

“We are all thrilled and delighted by the recognition we have received”.

Banner Jones Solicitors and CMP Legal support the marketing and economic growth of the town through Chesterfield Champions, a network of over 200 organisations across Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.

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BRM corporate team completes over £85 Million of deals in 12 Months

20th February 2024

Regional law firm, BRM has completed more than £85 million in corporate deals in the last 12 months.

BRM’s corporate team, led by Executive Director Sarah Rowland, brought in more than £85 million in high-profile transactions during 2023. The deals spanned a variety of sectors including healthcare, construction, logistics, energy and transport.

Completing more than 20 large transactions last year, BRM, which has offices in Chesterfield and Sheffield, advised on deals including supporting Classic Lifts on one sale and two purchases including their acquisition of Southern Counties Lifts.

2023 also saw the firm’s corporate team advise Synecore Ltd in their sale to H.I.G Capital, as well as advising Sheffield-based All Seasons Energy in their acquisition by Swedish counterpart, Aira.

BRM Executive Director Sarah Rowland predicts another strong year in 2024: “In 2023, we saw a positive deal flow which has been reflected in the volume of deals we managed to complete.

“Although a demanding and busy period, our team has risen to the challenges to provide first-class specialist corporate legal advice to our clients.

“We have had the pleasure of working with some of our long-standing clients in getting their deals over the line and helping them with their strategic goals.

“We predict a buoyant 2024, with yet again another solid pipeline of deals across a variety of sectors. We look forward to another strong year.”

BRM Supports the marketing and economic growth of the town through Chesterfield Champions, a network of over 200 organisations across Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.

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Banner Jones Solicitors secures place in prestigious Legal 500 directory

10th October 2023

Chesterfield law firm Banner Jones has secured a place in the prestigious Legal 500 directory for the 11^th year, with both the firm’s Family Law and Personal Injury teams maintaining their Tier 2 rankings.

Led by head of practice, Kelly Parks, with input and support from children law senior solicitor, Shetal Gudgeon, this year’s directory recognised the family team for its work dealing with complex divorce and financial cases.

The firm was also referred to as being ‘highly experienced representing children in care proceedings’, naming solicitor and head of care Vince Beckworth alongside senior associate, Jason Burnett, who both act on behalf of parents and individuals intervening in care proceedings, and in disputes concerning residence, contact arrangements for children, adoption and prohibited steps.

Banner Jones’ award-winning personal injury department, headed up by Sarah Sadler, also retained its position, with the directory describing the team as ‘vastly experienced and capable’, with particular expertise in employers and public liability, road traffic, disease and serious injuries or loss of life.

Work highlights cited by the Legal 500 included acting for the joiner who fell down an open stairwell resulting in catastrophic, life changing injuries. As well as a representing a client in a complicated clinical negligence matter, where the negligence caused prolonged psychological trauma.

Assessing the strengths of law firms across the world, the continued inclusion of Banner Jones in the directory is indicative of the team’s hard work over the last 12 months, and its continued commitment to providing high quality, customer- focused legal services to clients.

Commenting on the rankings Banner Jones’ Chief Executive, Simon Wright, said: “We are of course incredibly proud to have once again been recognised as a firm for the work that we do, particular in relation to family law and care proceedings, and personal injury.

“As ever, this continued recognition is testament to the efforts of our legal teams who are supported day-to-day by all of our dedicated and hard-working staff.”

Banner Jones Solicitors supports the marketing and economic growth of the town through Chesterfield Champions, a network of over 200 organisations across Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.

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BRM Solicitors advises on £83 million apartment development

17th June 2022

Regional law firm BRM, which has a base in Chesterfield has advised on acquisition, pre-let, and development funding for an £83m apartment development in East London.

Reinforcing its position as one of the largest real estate teams in the region, this deal takes the total value of BRM’s Real Estate development deals over the last three years to over £300 million.

In this recent deal Head of Real Estate Adrian Sheehan and the specialist team of Sarah Rowland (Construction) and Chris Hey (Real Estate) advised R Blue Regen HQ Limited on a brownfield industrial site for apartment development. The firm’s support included site identification, through acquisition, pre-let, and development funding. BRM continue to advise in the £83 million development as construction commences.

Adrian Sheehan said: “This has been a fantastic project to work on, bringing this site from identification and acquisition, to pre-let, development funding and construction.

“I was ably supported by the BRM Real Estate and Construction teams in advising our client, settling all necessary documentation and our dealings with the Fund and Tenant in general.

“This forms one of the multiple sites that we have advised on for local and national developers that are in construction and others which are coming toward fruition.

“Having already completed a high number of deals in the previous 12 months, the team headed by Sheehan is predicting another strong year for the Real Estate team.

“We haven’t seen a drop in transactions, the market has remained confident, the firm’s regional and national client development portfolio has grown significantly in the past 3 years, and we are now acting on potential developments of increasing size and value”

The property team at BRM advises on all aspects of property management and transactions, including portfolio management, finance, and development with specialisms in hospitality, commercial and residential developments.

BRM Solicitors supports the marketing and economic growth of the town through Chesterfield Champions, a network of over 200 organisations across Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.

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