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The ‘pleasant and efficient’ Geoff Hazlewood is now a partner at Ashton Graham, which advises many healthcare bodies and franchisors, and has a noteworthy French legal services team.

Greene & Greene is ‘always willing to help’. Chris Thomson (noted for his ‘pragmatism, commercialism and a reassuring dash of aggression’) assisted in securing £4.3m funding for Oakland Care Centre; Simon Ratcliffe is advising on a £20m insurance business sale; and Neil Walmsley handled the $36m refinancing of an international manufacturing group.

The ever-popular Howard Wright at Blocks remains one of Felixstowe’s busiest lawyers, raising the firm’s profile across Suffolk.

At Fraser Dawbarns, new managing partner Tony Cheetham ensures ‘attention to detail, and all contact is excellent’. The firm acts for clients from Fenland to West Norfolk.

Gross & Co’s Graeme Kirk, Nicholas Amor and Jonathan Cobbold are popular with small businesses, notably doctors, dentists and vets.

Andrew Whitehead in HC Solicitors’ new Huntingdon office advised Anglian Regional Co-operative Society on a major refinancing and a £3m purchase.

Leeds Day’s commercial business team, under Andrew Roberts, is winning deals across the region.

Metcalfe, Copeman & Pettefar handled the £17.5m sale of recycling business Pearsons Group. Andrew Davies and Tim Stevenson are well connected in the local business community, and the firm is unusual in having a Portuguese speaker.

Nicholsons Solicitors LLP’s Robert Nicholson and Ben Blower are first choice for owner-managed businesses in Lowestoft.

Ward Gethin’s Penny Lees and Simon Wilson in King’s Lynn, and Simon Fowler in Swaffham, are popular among local entrepreneurs.

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