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“Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has recruited two partners to its property practice bringing to seven its lateral partner hires in the past 10 months.
Richard Hopkinson-Woolley joins from Nicholson Graham & Jones (NGJ), where as a partner he counted Ravenbourne Developments as a client.
…The second new recruit is Franc Pena, joining as a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he specialised in real estate aspects of finance transactions.
…The pair join BLP’s property team as it posts a 9% increase in turnover for 2002-03…”
The firm’s Commercial Real Estate Group had a number of strategic imperatives for recruiting at senior assistant/partner level, not least of which was to add to the list of "star" fee earners and to increase their market share of property plc and development work.
Having researched the leading real estate firms, approaches began and a number of targets agreed to meet our client. Although, we had only been retained to find one individual, the quality of two targets stood out from the crowd: a junior partner from a mid sized law firm and a senior associate from a Magic Circle firm. Our client decided to invest in both of them and have had no moments of regret since they have joined.
