DWF has recruited Shoesmiths, asset finance chief to assist in the new Birmingham base. The Birmingham office will be DWF’s seventh UK office and will serve to expand the firm’s asset finance practice with the view to target Birmingham’s banking and finance markets.
Joanne Davis, from Shoesmiths, will head the asset finance and regulatory practice. DWF managing partner Andrew Leaitherland said of her, “Joanne is a great fit with our new national lender services team and client portfolio. Her outstanding asset finance and consumer credit regulatory experience will help us build on our impressive commercial offering.”
He added that, “Birmingham has long since been a strategic target for the firm to ensure we are based exactly where our clients need us. The city also has a great talent pool of lawyers, many with the expertise and knowledge of the market sectors in which we specialise and aim to develop in the future.”
