Belfast-based McKinty and Wright is a specialist insurance defendant firm with 19 lawyers and seven partners. The three-year deal will launch on 1 June and will see the firms refer work to each other from shared clients as well as combining marketing.

DAC has offices across England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland, but has no offices of its own in Northern Ireland.

‘Unrivalled coverage’

Managing partner David Pollitt commented that the arrangement would enable DAC to offer an ‘unrivalled coverage across the UK and Ireland’ now that the firm has bases in all five jurisdictions.