Keoghs lands new corporate partner

North West firm Keoghs has boosted its corporate team with a hire from Clifford Chance.

Melanie Yeomans joins the firm as a partner from Clifford Chance’s Paris office, where she was a senior solicitor.

Yeomans specialises in mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments and will be helping to build up Keoghs’ corporate finance department.

Alan Robins, Keoghs’ corporate head, said Yeomans’s appointment will add to the team’s strength.