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Brabners Chaffe Street LLP’s nine-partner team has a strong offering for a predominantly owner-managed and SME client roster. Although its focus is on the mid-market, notably the group recently advised Nationwide Autocentres on its £73.2m sale to Halfords. Team head Denise Walker is recommended. The firm recently joined forces with the Steve Stuart Partnership to create a complementary corporate finance advisory service.

Able to service local, national and international clients and to tap into huge firmwide resources, DLA Piper UK LLP’s four-partner team in Liverpool is instructed by an impressive mix of corporates and private equity sponsors. ‘Authoritative, flexible and commercial’, Paul Rimmer has an excellent reputation for private equity work and recently played a prominent role in Pets at Home’s £955m secondary buyout by KKR. David Cadwallader heads the group, and recently represented Liverpool FC on the £300m takeover by New England Sports Ventures. On the commercial front, Peter Brook’s ‘client relationship management is superb’. Clients include Regus, Serco, Buying Solutions and Balfour Beatty.

‘Excellent in all respects’, Hill Dickinson LLP has had the largest offering in Liverpool since it acquired the corporate practice of Halliwells in July 2010. Craig Scott has the ‘ability to communicate in non-legal language’, and has particular expertise in private equity matters. Other recommended partners include Sue Russell and Jonathan Brown.

Following its merger with Mace & Jones, Weightmans LLP has increased firepower to direct at its traditional expertise in advising owner-managed businesses and public sector clients. Team head Ian Vicary advised Bibby Distribution on its acquisition of Taygroup UK Holdings.

DWF LLP's team in Liverpool includes corporate partner Gareth McIntegart, who is very commercially aware and technically astute’.

‘Very well versed across all aspects of corporate and commercial law’, O’Connors LLP provides a ‘terrific’ service to family-owned and small businesses. Recent highlights include advising on the conversion of a large legal practice from a traditional partnership to an LLP. Paul O’Connor and Mark O’Connor are praised for their ‘ability to think outside the box’.

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