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EY in UK takes two more partners from Addleshaws
Paul Devitt, who stood down a year ago as managing partner of Addleshaw Goddard, is joining the Big Four firm's legal practice, where he will work alongside another ex-Addleshaws collegue, Philip Goodstone, who is now head of the EY legal team.
The expansion strategy comes within a year of the firm acquiring its ABS licence from the Solicitors Regulation Authority Bocman 1973
Paul Devitt, an M&A specialist, makes the trip to EY (formerly known as Ernst & Young) with another Addleshaws partner, corporate specialist Richard Thomas. Mr Devitt has spent the last year advising on transactions, having given up the management role a year before it was due to end.
Berwin Leighton Paisner
EY became an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) in December and has been recruiting other lawyers from law firms - including from Olswang and Berwin Leighton Paisner. Source: Legal Business
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