McGrigors' City arm hit by double departure

McGrigors has been hit by the departures of banking and finance partner Stuart Brinkworth and barrister Jonathan Fisher QC, both of whom were based in the Scots giant's London office. Fisher joined McGrigors' City arm a year ago from 18 Red Lion Court with a brief to set up a corporate crime and regulatory practice. He returns to the Bar having taken a place in chambers at 23 Essex Street. Brinkworth, meanwhile, is set to join SJ Berwin in March.

March 12, 2007 at 06:49 AM

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McGrigors has been hit by the departures of banking and finance partner Stuart Brinkworth and barrister Jonathan Fisher QC, both of whom were based in the Scots giant's London office.

Fisher joined McGrigors' City arm a year ago from 18 Red Lion Court with a brief to set up a corporate crime and regulatory practice. He returns to the Bar having taken a place in chambers at 23 Essex Street.

Brinkworth, meanwhile, is set to join SJ Berwin in March.

The departures come with the firm also set to lose former Assets Recovery Agency senior barrister Tamara Solecki, who joined the McGrigors' London tax team as an associate last year and is leaving the firm for personal reasons. Her departure follows the loss last year City-based tax litigation partner Mark Whitehouse, who joined Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.

However, a McGrigors partner told Legal Week that the tax litigation department had never been larger, following the recruitment last month of financial services regulatory and corporate defence lawyer Maria Piggin from Bark & Co and the hire of two further associates in the last two weeks.