Berrymans Lace Mawer elects new senior partner

Brown currently heads the firm’s healthcare practice. He will take over as senior partner on 2 April and his two roles will be combined. Renouf, meanwhile, will return to full time practice.

Last year the firm converted to a legal disciplinary partnership, promoting non-lawyer Alistair Kinley into its equity partnership (20 June 2011).

Under Renouf’s reign the firm has grown turnover by 75 per cent from £45m at the 2005-06 year-end to £78.8m at the 2010-11 year-end. Partnership headcount has also jumped by almost a third, from 101 to 146.

The firm has expanded geographically, having opened offices in Cardiff and Bristol in 2010 (30 March 2010).

Brown said: “One of my priorities is to ensure that BLM continues to follow a clear strategic path leading to new opportunities in a changing legal market place. I welcome the challenges that lie ahead.”