Warwickshire law firm Wright Hassall expands its commercial team

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Peter Davison

Warwickshire law firm Wright Hassall has announced an appointment to its growing commercial team on the back of new client wins.

Wright Hassall has appointed Melonie Dilworth to support all aspects of commercial transactions, with a particular focus on SMEs.

Melonie arrives from social care provider Voyage Care, where she spent over two years as legal counsel.

Pete Maguire, Partner and Head of the Outsourcing, Technology and Commercial team at Leamington Spa-based Wright Hassall said: “I am delighted to welcome Melonie.

“We have been looking to add resource to the team for some time to support our growing client base across the commercial and technology sectors, and in particular our SME work.

“Melonie fits the bill for us and I am looking forward to seeing her develop here.

“We place a really big emphasis on meeting clients’ needs – it is about being practical, pragmatic, business savvy, and providing solutions to help build businesses.

“Having additional capacity within our team equips us with the tools to continue recent momentum and make a difference to our clients.”

Melonie added: “I’m really pleased to be joining such a well-established and respected Legal 500 law firm and look forward to working across a variety of different clients.”

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.