DWF bolsters nascent Newcastle practice with Dickie Dees hire
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DWF has bulked up its burgeoning Newcastle practice with banking partner from Dickinson Dees.
Deborah Kirtley, who was head of banking at Dickinson Dees, will be tasked with growing DWF’s banking and finance practice in the North East. Kirtley acts for both banks and borrowers and has particular expertise advising on the funding of property acquisitions, development transactions and corporate acquisitions.
DWF announced its plan to launch a full-service practice in Newcastle in May 2011 after hiring corporate lawyer John Flynn, also from Dickinson Dees, as executive partner (6 May 2011).
In November 2011 the firm announced that as of 1 January 2012 it was merging with Crutes in Newcastle, a £5m firm with 16 partners across three offices (25 November 2011).
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Anonymous | 4-Jan-2012 5:10 pm
The first of many.
Maybe it's also time that Dickinson Dees transferred their self-proclaimed title ("the North East's Leading Law Firm") across to DWF? After all, they are the bigger firm.
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Anonymous | 4-Jan-2012 5:45 pm
Congratulations to both Deborah and to DWF.
I guess DDs expected to lose some senior staff to lateral hires when the DWF-Crutes announcement was made. It's worrying that the heads of profitable teams are leaving, especially given the wider picture.
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Anonymous | 5-Jan-2012 10:08 am
It feels like things are really changing in the North East legal market.
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Anonymous | 5-Jan-2012 12:35 pm
I'd be interested to know where DWF are going to find lots of new banking clients in Newcastle.
Surely DWF needs to bring in some heavy-weight corporate and property lawyers before sorting out its banking offering?
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A costly business | 5-Jan-2012 1:47 pm
maybe they will send some of the Cobbetts lot up there should the merger be completed. Bet the debt levels and leasehold liabilities will look a tad tasty should they complete that one.
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Anonymous | 5-Jan-2012 2:49 pm
Some of these comments are laughable. It's common knowledge in the market that Kirtley left DDs a long time ago. Let's hope her new practice does better than her last "profitable" team.
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Anonymous | 5-Jan-2012 9:19 pm
Are you saying that this is not "a Dickinson Dees hire"? If she had left, why keep her details on the website?
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Anonymous | 6-Jan-2012 10:02 am
And the Chambers 2012 directory rates her as being the Key Individual for the only Band 1 Banking & Finance practice in the North East
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Anonymous | 6-Jan-2012 10:04 am
Those new premises look very big compared to Crutes. I'd hazard that a few other partners are about to move across.
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Anonymous | 6-Jan-2012 11:37 am
What a shame that one particular firm in Newcastle always bad-mouths staff who have the temerity to leave.
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