Bermans welcomes partner duo

Manchester and Liverpool commercial law firm Bermans

Employment partner Sarah Collier and litigation specialist Sarah Wellicome. Sarah Collier brings over 15 years’ experience in supporting SMEs with a full range of day-to-day employment advice ranging from redundancies, disciplinaries and grievances, as well as advising and supporting businesses on discrimination and sexual harassment matters, shareholder disputes, settlement agreements and in-house training. She will be based in the firm’s Manchester office as a partner in the employment team.

Sarah Wellicome is coming in to head the firm’s nationally renowned invoice and asset finance litigation team following the retirement of partner Andrew Henderson after 39 years with the firm.

Sarah, who will be based in the firm’s Manchester office, qualified in 2007 and previously headed up a busy litigation team dealing with property litigation on a range of high value and complex disputes for secured lenders and receivers in the High Court and through mediation and ADR.

Just last month the firm added Charlotte Mills as a partner in its corporate team from sister law firm, Jackson Lees. These latest appointments take the number of partners at the firm to 20.

Jon Davage, managing director of Bermans, says: “I am delighted to welcome a further two lawyers who are so well-established within their fields. Our litigation work is thriving, so Sarah Wellicome’s arrival will further drive growth within this nationally renowned team.

“Further, the planned changes to employment legislation by the new Labour government will be an ideal opportunity for Sarah Collier to contribute to the growth of the employment team and add real value to our active client base.”

“Across both of our offices in Liverpool and Manchester we are seeing growth and momentum build as we actively look to add new lawyers to our team over the course of the year.”

Since 2022, Bermans has been part of the MAPD group which stands for ‘Making a Positive Difference’. The MAPD Group was founded by CEO Brian Cullen and COO Joanna Kingston-Davies in 2020 to power the growth of local law firms nationally through acquisition. The group now has nine brands.

For further information, please contact:

Sue Carr, Black Letter Communications 020 3567 1208 / [email protected]

About Bermans

Bermans is a full-service commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool and Manchester.

The firm offers commercial law services to owner-managed and SME businesses as well as providing specialised services to the asset finance and invoice finance sectors.

Since 2022, the firm has been part of the MAPD Group.

About MAPD

MAPD stands for ‘Making a Positive Difference’. The MAPD Group was founded by CEO Brian Cullen and COO Joanna Kingston-Davies in 2020 to power the growth of local law firms nationally through acquisition.

MAPD acquired the Jackson Lees Group (Jackson Lees and Broudie Jackson Canter) in March 2020, Myers & Co in 2021, Bermans in 2022 and Thomson Hayton Winkley and The Rural Law Practice, and Bromleys in 2023.

MAPD is backed by Shard Credit Partners and is looking to invest in aligned businesses within the legal sector via a nationwide acquisition strategy.

MAPD is building a group of successful law firms, propelled by a single shared purpose; Making a Positive Difference. This ethos fuels business performance, motivates people, leads MAPD to deliver high quality work for their clients and roots firms more deeply in the communities, focusing on sustainable growth.