HF Northern Ireland expands into Derry with new Ebrington office
Legal advisory firm HF Northern Ireland has announced the opening of a new office in Derry as part of a wider expansion project being undertaken by the company.
As leading advisers to the insurance and commercial sectors, HF opened their Belfast office eight years ago with the aim, a company spokesperson said, “of providing an innovative approach to litigation services in Northern Ireland”.
Since then, the HF NI team has recruited over 30 people, and the company said that the opening of the Derry office represents their ‘next phase of growth’.
The office is based in modern premises at the Ebrington area of the city and the company said the move “will create high quality employment opportunities as well as strengthening the support for existing and future clients and their customers”.
Gavin Hegarty, Associate Partner, will lead the office.
Matthew Fitzpatrick, Partner & Head of Northern Ireland said: “This is an exciting phase in the growth of HF Northern Ireland and reflects the successful and innovative approach we take to supporting our clients.
"We’re looking forward to Gavin and the team building on that success and creating more growth and opportunities within our region.”
HF states that as leading legal advisers to the insurance and commercial sectors in Britain and across Ireland, the firm has been driving innovative solutions and ‘disrupting the status quo since 1969’0.
"Our success has seen us expand, and continue to expand, across a full range of services including corporate law, employment law, real estate, dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency, debt recovery, professional indemnity and product liability.
"We do things differently, with a forward-thinking, innovative approach that’s genuinely built around our clients’ needs – not our own.
"Our customers, including some of the biggest organisations in the country, work with us for that very reason. We work with them every day to help them realise their potential for sustained growth and deliver the best possible solutions for what they tell us they need.
"Our clients trust us to challenge convention, to innovate and to put their interests first. All underpinned by leading edge technology and a truly committed team for whom second best is not an option.”