- Wednesday, 4th March 2020
- The Deep Business Centre
Legal Sector Breakfast Briefing - Hull
Why law firm mergers fail
Wolf Shark and Co Ltd and Puppydog Kitten & Co LLP are looking to merge although there are certain areas that need to be addressed before this can complete such as name, management, profit sharing, cars, borrowing and profitability.
Paul Bennett (Bennett Briegal LLP) and Mark Briegal (Bennett Briegal LLP) will assume the roles of Managing Director and Managing Partner of the respective firms and act out a typical scenario that is not uncommon in such negotiations, moderated by our own Tom Blandford.
A witty acting performance will serve to highlight very real differences that are common in many such deals and attempt to provide you with ideas and answers on how to resolve such issues
Speaker Profile – Paul Bennett
Paul Bennett is a Solicitor, Mediator and Arbitrator who advises law firms and solicitors on SRA regulatory matters, Anti-Money Laundering, employment and partnership law at the specialist law firm to other lawyers Bennett Briegal LLP.
Paul’s work is national, and his experience includes advising hundreds of law firms from high street, niche firms and city and US law firms on legal issues, reporting serious misconduct to the SRA, regulatory investigations and responding to enforcement proceedings. As an arbitrator he can be appointed in the event of a partnership dispute.
Paul writes, lectures and advises on the issues of being in business as a solicitor. He recorded a free to access Podcast on Freelance Solicitors for the Law Society in July 2019 and was commissioned to write the Law Society’s well received Practice Note on Freelance Solicitors which was released in September 2019. His next book How to be a freelance solicitor is due out in October 2019.
Speaker Profile – Mark Briegal
Mark is a founding partner at Bennett Briegal LLP, a specialist legal practice advising other lawyers and professionals on the business of law, partnership matters, mergers and acquisitions, business structures, professional regulation and employment.
Mark was on the Executive Board of a Top 200 law firm during a period of sustained growth. He originally worked in banking, running a range of banking operations for Chase Manhattan Bank, and then in management consulting, before qualifying as a solicitor. Mark aims to bring a very practical approach to business law. Mark has an MBA from Manchester Business School and a Classics degree from Cambridge University. Mark set up Association of Partnership Practitioners in the North West. He is ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories.
Date & Time
Date: Wednesday, 4th March 2020
Time: 8.00am - 10.00am
Registration details
To register your interest or to book your free place, please email
dawn.smith@armstrongwatson.co.uk
Address
The Deep Business Centre
Hull
HU1 4BG
