Issue 11 2020

Acquisition International - Issue 11 2020 15 Sep20666 ased in Leeds, Clarion is an award-winning law firm offering a full complement of corporate legal services alongside one of the largest private client teams in the Yorkshire region. Covering practices such as Banking and Finance, Commercial Dispute Resolution and Costs and Litigation Funding, as well as Family, Real Estate and Intellectual Property Law, Clarion’s team of experienced and committed experts is able to help their clients, across the UK and in seventy-five countries worldwide, achieve the best possible outcomes. Ranked number eight in the prestigious Sunday Times’ ‘Best Small Companies to Work For’ list in 2020, as well as being the highest ranked law firm in the UK and achieving the highest ranking of any Yorkshire-based business, Clarion has also achieved a three star accreditation in the 2020 ‘Best Companies to Work For’ scheme. Clarion invests heavily in its people and clients, the accolades and accreditations are testament to the success of these investments. With a clear vision of where the firm wants to be in the legal market and who it wants to work with, Clarion ensures it is creating an environment that cultivates the most well-rounded people who are committed to delivering outstanding client experiences. ‘BeingClarion’ is in the firm’s DNA, the result of teamwork, transparency and authenticity coming together to ensure the Clarion team are well looked after and supported in their pursuit of rewarding and fulfilling careers. United in their differences, the Clarion team brings diversity, not just in gender and ethnicities but in their perspectives and thinking styles, to leverage their differences to innovate and improve their business. Always looking to improve, every voice is listened to, valued and appreciated, helping Clarion to thrive whilst every employee is supported, consistently growing in confidence as an integral element of the Clarion culture. This is only enhanced through the learning and development programmes offered by Clarion that see employees nurtured throughout their careers, as they are given the tools and time to develop internally and externally. In this way, Clarion grows together. Consequently, Clarion is able to offer their clients outstanding service that is unique in its competitive and transparent approach to pricing and providing genuine commerciality. Unlike many of its competitors, Clarion gives their lawyers the necessary time to truly understand the intricacies of their clients’ business issues, rather than acting as fee earners focused only on billing. This allows the creation of a centralised and collegiate culture that enables lawyers to build committed and long-term relationships with their clients that are founded on total trust and understanding. B Clarion is an award-winning, Leeds-based law firm that has been built on talent. Recruiting the best, most experienced and committed legal experts to its team, Clarion has been able to establish itself as a market- leading firm all across the globe. Joint Managing Partner, Roger Hutton, has brough thirty years of restructuring in retail, manufacturing and technology to the firm, and is now bringing his most recent accolade: Acquisition International’s UK Corporate Recovery Lawyer of the Year 2020. Decades of Experience and Success This has resulted in significant organic growth for many years. Most notably in the past twelve months, the Business Restructuring and Insolvency team has had an exceptional twelve months of increasing its market share regionally and nationally as it takes on some of the most complex and high-profile insolvency assignments across the UK. This success has been led by Joint Managing Partner and Acquisition International’s UK Corporate Recovery Lawyer of the Year 2020, Roger Hutton. Pragmatic, commercially savvy and astute, Roger brings thirty years of experience in restructuring within the retail, manufacturing technology sectors to Clarion, which he applies to his approach that is centred on practical advice and commercial realties in his dealings with insolvency practitioners and directors in highly confidential and distressed situations. Thriving on the daily challenges that face a restructuring lawyer and committed to understanding the needs of clients as the Joint Managing Partner responsible for the development of business and client relationships, Roger may be busy but he knows how to achieve client satisfaction: “Ultimately success comes from getting under the skin of a situation quickly and understanding exactly what my client really wants, both now and in the longer term.” Always on the look out for new talent who can help to grow Clarion, whilst also facing the challenges of working remotely that are being presented by Covid-19, it is a busy time for the firm. However, they are seizing these challenges as opportunities, demonstrating their sense of community and resilience while directing energy and resources to those detrimentally affected by the virus. Undeterred by current challenges, the future is wide open for Clarion. Contact: Roger Hutton Company: Clarion Web Address: www.clarionsolicitors.com