Excello Law has opened a new office in Nottingham and welcomed insolvency, corporate recovery and dispute resolution specialists Nicky Calthrop-Owen, Victoria Dunstall and Annabel Whittaker, who have joined from Actons.
The Nottingham opening brings Excello’s national network to 11 hybrid office locations. The new insolvency team joins local real estate solicitors Matthew Neiland and Michaela Story, and a wider Midlands team of 35 based out of Birmingham and Leicester.
Nicky Calthrop-Owen qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and became a licensed insolvency practitioner in 1998. She has been consistently recognised by the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories and advises clients in complex insolvency and restructuring matters and partnership disputes.
Annabel Whittaker is dual qualified – as a solicitor in 2006, and an insolvency practitioner in 2012 – and provides legal advice on corporate and personal insolvency matters. Victoria Dunstall, who qualified in 2001 and gained the diploma in advanced litigation in 2005, specialises in both contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvency matters. Both are ranked as Next Generation Partners in Legal 500.
Ms Whittaker said: “We have reached a point in our careers where we are confident that our reputation and experience enables us to generate our own work, and additional work we can refer to solicitors in other practice areas.
“The freedom and responsibility offered by Excello Law’s structure and ethos was the main attraction of our move to an established and successful consultancy practice.”
Excello chief operating officer Joanne Losty said: “Nottingham is an increasingly important commercial hub and it is great for us to have office facilities at the heart of our client base.
“Our team is all locally-based and this solidifies our presence in the area, giving us a visible platform to recruit more consultant lawyers in the region.
“We have the largest office network of any of the consultancy firms – and it was a natural extension of our growth ambitions in the central region to open new facilities in the East Midlands to support our team.
“We’re delighted to have a permanent base in the city and look forward to recruiting more lawyers to the firm.”
