Insurance boutique Hextalls has lost a team of eight, including two partners, to Kennedys.
Insurance boutique Hextalls has lost a team of eight, including two partners, to Kennedys.
Personal injury specialists Joe McManus and Charles Martin will join the firm today along with a team of four solicitors and two secretaries. They will arrive with a number of key clients including AIG, Liberty and Travelers.
“These are clients which are the same as ours,” said Kennedys senior partner Nick Thomas. “This move brings our rivals into the fold and consolidates our contacts.”
Kennedys has been beefing up its ranks for more than a year, having made a number of strategic hires.
In December 2008 it launched a raid on DLA Piper’s Birmingham office taking professional indemnity (PI) head Eamon Mooney to lead its PI team in Birmingham. He was joined by partners Robert Welfare and Khalid Mahmood.
A very interesting story for those of us who work for Kennedys and to whom the news has not yet been announced!
Surprise? They were at the Seminar last week!
Charles Martin currently appears on the website of each firm. Perchance he possesses a unique ‘power’ like one of the characters from TV’s Heroes?
Interesting observation, although if industry scandal is to be believed Mr Martin is in fact more akin to a Cadbury’s Heroe than a bona fide, spandex donning “Superman”. My hunch is that he has in fact moved to Kennedys.
good to see you’re still stirring it up joe!!