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Mills & Reeve to merge with George Davies

Law firm Mills & Reeve has announced a merger with Manchester-based solicitors, George Davies.

Mills & Reeve have a Manchester office just one floor up from George Davies in the same building on New York Street in the city centre.

The law firm also has bases in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, Norwich and London with a total of 112 partners and 870 staff across the country.

Partners at both firms voted in favour of the merger, which will go ahead on the 1st June 2013 and bring their combined number of Manchester partners up to 16 people, with 57 other staff members in total.

Guy Hinchley, Mills & Reeve’s managing partner, commented: “This merger will enable us to grow our presence in Manchester substantially and to progress our strategy of providing a full range of legal services to clients in our key sectors.

“We are very excited about the potential that our increased scale gives us in the North of England and the further career opportunities that it creates for the talented lawyers and business support professionals in our enlarged firm.”

George Davies managing partner, Mark Hovell, added: “As a well established, profitable, Manchester firm we have had regular approaches from firms looking to establish or strengthen their presence in the Manchester marketplace.

“We chose to merge with Mills & Reeve as we have a lot of synergy with them and their culture closely reflects ours.

“This merger will enable us to offer our clients access to a wider range of legal services and specialist sector advice from the Mills & Reeve national practice and international network and also to pursue new clients who have previously been beyond our reach.”

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