Parabis Group has received its alternative business structure (ABS) licence from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), making it the first private-equity backed organisation to take up the business model.

The licence approval has rubberstamped a deal agreed late last year which saw private equity house Duke Street take a majority stake of just over 50% in Parabis, the parent company of insurance litigation firms Plexus Law and Cogent Law.