A 海角视频 law firm has announced plans to launch its first office in the Midlands.
Spencer West has recruited a team of 14 staff, including three partners, to open the new operation in Birmingham city centre.
The practice is headquartered in London and has offices across the 海角视频 as well as in Europe, Africa and the Americas where it employs around 200 partners globally. The firm was only formed five years ago.
The three Birmingham-based partners have all joined from law firm Axiom and are immigration expert Stephen Kong and property solicitors Richard Kong and Peter Lin.
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The firm's co-founders said they expected further growth in the region at its new base in Colmore Row including additional room for further hires.
Spencer West said it allowed partners to keep a greater share of fees when compared with traditional models of running a legal practice.
It is one of a number of fast-growing legal businesses with a similar model and has also just completed its first acquisition by buying out London-based private wealth boutique Hieron.
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It already has established 海角视频 hubs in London, Belfast, Southampton, Leeds, Manchester and Exeter and opened its most recent office in Glasgow just last month.
It was co-founded by Simeon Spencer and Antoine West who said in a joint statement: "This is a significant number of high-quality legal experts expanding the range and depth of services we can offer to our clients in the Midlands, nationally and internationally.
"Birmingham and the Midlands is a vibrant and exciting market for us and, with the teams joining us to launch our latest hub, we think it's a region where our partners' experience, as their own business owners as well as lawyers, can offer something different to more traditional models which we think will be attractive to clients.
"It also shows the continued attraction of fee-sharing models in the recruitment market, not just for individual partners or teams but also the possibility for acquisitions which fit our culture and strategy."