Bermans welcomes partner duo

Bermans has added two new partners to its growing team.

Employment partner Sarah Collier and litigation specialist Sarah Wellicome.

From L-R Sarah Wellicome, Jon Davage and Sarah Collier

Sarah Collier brings over 15 years’ experience in supporting SMEs with a full range of day-to-day employment advice ranging from redundancies, disciplinaries and grievances, as well as advising and supporting businesses on discrimination and sexual harassment matters, shareholder disputes, settlement agreements and in-house training. She will be based in the firm’s Manchester office as a partner in the employment team.

Sarah Wellicome is coming in to head the firm’s nationally renowned invoice and asset finance litigation team following the retirement of partner Andrew Henderson after 39 years with the firm.

Sarah, who will be based in the firm’s Manchester office, qualified in 2007 and previously headed up a busy litigation team dealing with property litigation on a range of high value and complex disputes for secured lenders and receivers in the High Court and through mediation and ADR.

Just last month the firm added Charlotte Mills as a partner in its corporate team from sister law firm, Jackson Lees. These latest appointments take the number of partners at the firm to 20.

Jon Davage, managing director of Bermans, says: “I am delighted to welcome a further two lawyers who are so well-established within their fields. Our litigation work is thriving, so Sarah Wellicome’s arrival will further drive growth within this nationally renowned team.

“Further, the planned changes to employment legislation by the new Labour government will be an ideal opportunity for Sarah Collier to contribute to the growth of the employment team and add real value to our active client base.”

“Across both of our offices in Liverpool and Manchester we are seeing growth and momentum build as we actively look to add new lawyers to our team over the course of the year.”

Since 2022, Bermans has been part of the MAPD group which stands for ‘Making a Positive Difference’. The MAPD Group was founded by CEO Brian Cullen and COO Joanna Kingston-Davies in 2020 to power the growth of local law firms nationally through acquisition. The group now has nine brands.