The Legal 500

Yorkshire law firm Gordons has advised on a property deal which sees Bradford’s Aspire Citygate residential and commercial scheme go ahead after being put on hold for two years due to the recession.

Yorkshire law firm Gordons has announced impressive results for the year ended April 2010 defying the downturn which has affected the legal sector.  Turnover rose by 1.5 per cent to £22m and average profit per equity partner over the period was £702,000, up from £478,000 the previous year.

Yorkshire law firm Gordons has announced that all seven of its second year trainees from its Leeds and Bradford offices have successfully qualified as solicitors and they will be retained by the practice to further enable its controlled growth strategy.

Bradford Law Society has presented its annual prize for a young solicitor who has made a significant legal contribution in the city to 29-year-old corporate lawyer Duncan Firman.

Yorkshire law firm Gordons has left its historic Bradford city centre home on Piccadilly and moved 100 yards up the same street to occupy the fully refurbished former offices of David Yablon Solicitors, the practice which it acquired three years ago.

Leeds and Bradford law firm Gordons has promoted four of its partners to junior equity partner in recognition of the important roles they have played in the firm’s ongoing growth and development.

Yorkshire law firm Gordons has advised Brulines, the group which sells and rents fluid monitoring machinery primarily to the pub industry, on its acquisition of Retail & Forecourt Solutions.

Yorkshire seed processing and supply business Woodheads Seeds has been acquired by AIM-listed agricultural and retail group Wynnstay Group plc in a deal worth over £3m dependent upon trading performance up to April 30, 2012.

Law firm Gordons has advised AIM-listed Helesi plc, a Greece and UK-based refuse and recycling wheelie bin manufacturing business, on the £1.65m sale of its UK operations to the Leeds environmental products group Straight plc.

A team of specialist lawyers from retail@gordons has advised York-based Pavers, one of the UK’s leading footwear retail specialists, on its acquisition of shoe-shop.com as part of its growth plan to become a global multi-channel shoe retailer.

A team of specialist lawyers from retail@gordons has advised Yorkshire-based car retailer JCT600 on the expansion of its operations with the acquisition of three Audi dealerships for an undisclosed sum.

Yorkshire law firm Gordons advised real time monitoring systems and data management service provider Brulines on its acquisition of Energy Level Systems, the UK distributor of OPW Fuel Management Systems tank gauging solutions.

Yorkshire law firm Gordons has expanded its corporate department with the appointment of Andrew Morris, formerly partner at international law firm DLA Piper's Leeds and Sheffield offices.

Leeds and Bradford law firm Gordons has announced a 2.1 per cent improvement in turnover to £21.7m for the last financial year making it the seventh successive year that the firm has recorded a year-on-year increase in revenue.

One of Yorkshire's highest profile Indian restaurant chains sought commercial property and licensing advice from Leeds and Bradford law firm Gordons to enable it to open its ninth restaurant.

Leeds and Bradford law firm Gordons has renewed its exclusive contract with Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) for both secured and non-secured legal work for the next three years.

Leeds and Bradford law firm Gordons has advised investment and development company 4Urban Limited on its multi million pound redevelopment of the Myrtle Walk Shopping Centre, Bingley.