LAW companies Everys Solicitors LLP and Crewkerne-based Stokes Companions LLP have introduced the merger of their two companies right now (Friday, November 25).
The newly merged agency will function as Everys Solicitors incorporating Stokes Companions and will likely be led by Everys’ managing accomplice James Griffin.
The newly merged agency has over 140 workers, together with 17 companions, and is unfold over eight areas all through East Devon, Somerset and London.
The merger combines the talents and experience of two outstanding South West based mostly legislation companies whose shared follow areas and specialisms increase the authorized assist supplied to people and companies domestically and past the South West.
The agency recognises the significance positioned on offering a private service to shoppers, whether or not a person or a enterprise.
The continued funding and enchancment in its IT infrastructure and communications enable the agency to supply specialist authorized recommendation to shoppers wherever they’re based mostly.
Commenting on the merger, Mr Griffin mentioned: “When contemplating companies to merge with, we appeared for a agency whose strengths complemented ours, whose tradition, values and philosophy have been much like ours, and whose targets matched ours.
“In Stokes we’ve got discovered the right accomplice and we’re very excited at what the longer term holds for our mixed companies.”
David Stokes, Stokes’ senior accomplice, mentioned: “It is a strategic merger which can profit our shoppers by way of the combination of our complementary follow strengths; the enlargement of established follow areas will allow us to ship distinctive worth to our shoppers.
“We’re more than happy to have efficiently merged with Everys and we stay up for attending to know our new colleagues and dealing with them.”
Everys Solicitors was established over 200 years in the past in Honiton, Devon, and served the native rural neighborhood.
It has since grown to turn out to be a number one normal follow legislation agency within the South West serving a various clientele domestically, nationally and internationally.
Stokes Companions was based by David Stokes in 1998 and is a extremely regarded legislation agency in Crewkerne and its surrounding areas.
The merged agency has workplaces in Crewkerne, Exeter, Exmouth, Honiton, Seaton, Sidmouth, Taunton and London.