Altrincham law firm McHale & Co has acquired Middleton-based Sedgwick Legal.
It’s the latest deal for McHale & Co, set up by local resident Andrew McHale in 2001, who bought Stretford firm J Arnold Hancock in 2015 and Heywood-based Waldron & Schofield in 2011.
Managing partner Andrew McHale said: “I am delighted to welcome the partners and staff of Sedgwick Legal into the McHale Legal family of firms.
“We have demonstrated how acquisitions like that can be genuine ‘win-win’ situations for all concerned, including existing clients who have more services opened up to them.
“We already are talking to other firms and believe that we will be approached by more firms who see the obvious benefit for all of being part of something bigger.”
Roger Dennerly, Sedgwick’s head of employment and commercial, is retiring but the other partners, Peter Carey and Judith Dennerly, who have both been with the firm since the 1980s, will be joining McHale.
McHale Legal, which now employs 60 people, specialises in services for the individual as well as small and medium-sized businesses, offering a complete one-stop service.
McHale also has Polish and Russian departments, and a specialist sports division representing sports professionals and clubs.
