Irwin Mitchell has continued the expansion of its commercial division with the recruitment of partners Phil Berwick and Nick Dawson, who join from Pinsent Masons and DWF respectively.

The hires take the total number of new partners in Irwin Mitchell's business legal services (BLS) division to 20 in the last two years, and are further evidence of the firm's push to diversify its offering beyond personal legal services.

London-based Berwick is a tax investigations partner and former director of Pinsents' litigation and compliance team, a role he carried over from McGrigors when the two firms merged in May 2012.