New global team for Everys

Everys Solicitors has announced plans to launch a specialist commercial team to facilitate deals worth millions of pounds for global businesses.

Ahead of the launch Everys has already helped secure several high value business deals. Thai corporation, the Srivikorn Group Holdings Co Ltd, whose shareholder owns a large share of Reading Football Club, recently completed on the purchase of the Madejski Hotel, next to the club’s stadium.

The same group is also expected to instruct Everys to help it purchase UK manufacturing businesses.

Meanwhile, Everys’ legal consultancy in Dubai continues to act for major insurance companies and brokers, as well as a number of large corporations based around the world.

In the UK, Everys’ Exeter head office will be the base for the majority of the new commercial team, drawing on the talent the firm has attracted or developed in recent years. Everys’ managing partner James Griffin will head up the team.

He says: “Exeter has a huge pool of talent and when I go up to London, I make it very clear to the overseas corporations and banks that I deal with, that we are as equally capable as any London law firm, while remaining competitive on fees.

“Most of our commercial work has come from existing contacts and as a result of our reputation, which is exactly how we would want to attract new business. Those contacts are obviously confident in our abilities and are happy to recommend us.”

Everys’ newest team will include Steven Carman, Emma Davy, Sean Jenner and Kim Knox, plus commercial dispute resolution specialist Simon Bean, as well as the firm’s established property department that included partners Stephen Clegg, Kevin James and Kate Stamp. The team will be given an identity of its own with rebranded collateral in navy blue and silver compared to the burgundy and white of the usual Everys’ branding.