Fladgate has boosted its AIM practice with two more partners from Fasken Martineau just months after hiring the Canadian firm’s employment practice group head Michael McCartney.

The latest hires are corporate partners Nigel Gordon and Chris Chrysanthou who are joining Fladgate along with Fasken associate Zehra Kofturcu.

Gordon, head of Fasken’s corporate practice group in London and co-head of the firm’s mining group in London, represents a number of growing companies, both public and private, and has been actively involved in the AIM market since its inception in 1995.

Chrysanthou also focuses on capital markets and M&A in the life sciences sector, representing a range of entrepreneurial individuals in establishing and growing companies, both public and private. Chris specialises in the AIM market, acting for issuers, nominated advisers and brokers.

Earlier this year Covent Garden firm Fladgate hired employment partner McCartney from Fasken where he was head of the employment practice group.

This autumn Fasken launched an internal consultation that could see it cut 70 positions from its London office as it “refocused” its operation in the UK. The firm also closed its office in Paris.

Sources close to the firm said the 70 proposed exits could include as many as 20 partners.

Fladgate’s chairman Charles Wander said that a significant proportion of his firm’s clients were fast-growing and entrepreneurial businesses. Coupled with Fladgate’s experience of AIM and the standard listing segment of the LSE’s Main Market the firm was a “natural fit” for Gordon and Chrysanthou and their clients, Wander added.

“We expect the combined team to be recognised as one of the leading AIM practices in the UK,” said Wander. “In addition, the significant experience that Nigel has gained through advising on the first central London-focused residential REIT to be admitted to AIM will also enhance our real estate and funds capability”.

Fladgate has announced a provisional 12 per cent rise in turnover to £19.1m at its half-year point, becoming the first UK firm to unveil its mid-point revenue.

The strong six-month performance follows a 14 per cent rise in turnover during the financial year 2014/15 in which Fladgate’s turnover hit more than £37m. Fladgate is projecting a rise of at least 10 per cent to around £40m-plus for the full 2015/16 financial year.

Fasken did not comment.