Law firm Ashfords, which has offices across the West including Bristol, has announced four promotions to partner and three promotions to associate.
The partner promotions, which take the firm’s total number of partners to 72, have been made across the partnership in recognition of continuing development and contribution to the practice.
Promoted to partner are Rebecca Dury, corporate/banking – Exeter, Chris Dyson, corporate – Bristol, Ben Hogan, projects/PFI – Exeter, and Victoria Saunders, residential property – Taunton.
Rebecca Dury acts for lenders and borrowers in relation to both syndicated and bilateral financings, including acquisition finance, property finance, invoice discounting, restructurings and refinancings. She has also worked in-house, having completed a secondment with the corporate and commercial legal team of an international bank.
Chris Dyson specialises in private equity and venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions. He has particular expertise in the technology sector, advising a wide range of clients including investment funds, established companies, start-ups and spin-outs.
Ben Hogan specialises in project finance, partnering and commercial arrangements in a broad range of sectors, including infrastructure, energy, education, health, transport, waste, electronic identification and IT.
Victoria Saunders specialises in shared ownership work acting for purchasers of properties through Westcountry Housing Association and Aster Group. She works with a wide variety of other property clients from private property investors and corporate property portfolio acquisitions to first time buyers.
Promoted from solicitor to associate are Jane Ireland, corporate – Exeter, Rory Suggett, corporate – Bristol, and Laura Tyrrell, commercial litigation – Exeter.
Commenting on the promotions, Ashfords chief executive Ian Daniells said: “These promotions are very well deserved and I would like to congratulate all those concerned. They reflect what has been an exciting year for Ashfords, during which we have made several lateral partner hires, and enlarged our practice through a merger with London law firm Rochman Landau.”
