Thrings appoints six new partners as part of record-setting round of promotions

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Peter Davison

Karen Perugini, Kate Barber and Eve Laws

Swindon-headquartered law firm Thrings has continued to strengthen its teams at all levels with a record number of promotions having been announced for lawyers across the firm.

Six new partners have been appointed in the latest round of promotions, alongside ten new senior associates and six associates, reflecting the firm’s plan for growth across its offices in the South and South West.

The firm’s Romsey office welcomes three new partners in Karen Perugini from the succession and tax team, Kate Barber from the family team and Eve Laws from the agriculture team.

Elsewhere, Natalie Ward from the employment team in Bristol and both Anna Shrubsole and Sue Russell from the private property teams in Bath and Lydney respectively are all promoted to partner.

Five associates from the Bristol office have been promoted to senior associates, including Beth Paja and Hayley Brickell (real estate), Joe Watkins (corporate), Richie Rees (agriculture litigation) and Lucy Hodgkins (paragon costs).

From the Romsey office, Josephine Taylor (agriculture) and Holly Algar (succession and tax) are also promoted to senior associate, as are Rebecca Whiting (real estate), based in the Swindon office, and both Emma Page (private property) and Stephen Horton (succession and tax) from the Bath office.

The six newly appointed associates are split between the Bristol and Swindon offices, with Bristol seeing promotions for Rebecca Stanton (planning), Matt Cornforth (corporate) and Ryan Small (agriculture litigation).

In Swindon, promotions have been announced for Hannah Stretton (family), Lorna Medcraft (real estate) and Conor Melvin (corporate).

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Simon Holdsworth, managing partner, said: “Our goal to have the best talent to act for our clients very much starts with retaining and nurturing the outstanding individuals we have.

"I am delighted to see colleagues continuing to excel across the firm, a fact that has been reflected by our biggest round of promotions to date."

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.