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✨ Starting 2025 with Good Vibes Only ✨ Mark Loosemore, Partner and Head of Sport takes the expert seat in the Legal Corner, as part of a new podcast series created in collaboration with Good Vibes Only Talent. The series addresses key commercial and legal challenges faced by talent on stage, screen, and in sporting arenas. With extensive experience advising organisations such as the Football Association of Wales, including their successful UEFA EURO 2028 joint bid, Mark is a recognised authority in sports, media, and entertainment law, ranked as a Leading Individual in The Legal 500 directory 2024. 🎧 In the first episode, Mark joins Ella Greenwood - a British filmmaker, Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and mental health advocate - to discuss the legal essentials for building a thriving freelance career. Ella’s episode is out today, 2nd January 🔗 https://bit.ly/3PqEW4J

✨ Best wishes for 2025! ✨ A huge thanks to our valued clients, colleagues, and communities as we look back on a year of shared successes, including: 🔹Unveiled our refreshed brand identity 🔹 Nurtured home-grown talent with 31 promotions across the business and introduced the new Legal Director role 🔹Introduced 18 people’s champions to support and mentor staff to reach their potential 🔹 Welcomed trainees to our Cardiff, Manchester, and London offices 🔹 Over 1400 volunteering days used by colleagues to support their chosen causes 🔹 Received the DE&I Change Maker Award from the NatWest Cymru Board, recognising the impact of our diversity and inclusion initiatives

🌟 Merry Christmas 🌟 to all our clients, contacts, colleagues and communities.

🎉 Another year Bigger, Bolder, Better 🎉 As we approach the end of 2024, we want to take a moment to reflect on everything we have achieved together this year. We’re proud to celebrate another year of growth and achievements, delivering exceptional results for our clients and fostering a culture where our people and communities thrive. 🔗 Read Managing Partner Alun Jones’ 2024 reflection article here: https://bit.ly/3P7pFFY

✨ Our seasonal opening times ✨ Please be aware of the changes to our opening hours of all our offices during the festive period. 🔹 Tuesday 24 December 2024 - Open (08:30 – 12:00) 🔹 Wednesday 25 December 2024 - Christmas Day 🔹 Thursday 26 December 2024 - Bank holiday 🔹 Friday 27 December 2024 - Closed 🔹 Monday 30 December 2024 - Open 🔹 Tuesday 31 December 2024 - Open 🔹 Wednesday 1 January 2025 - Bank holiday 🔹 Thursday 2 January 2025 - Open

With the festive period fast approaching, we have been out and about helping the community in lots of festive ways. 🎅 Our Private Wealth Dispute team participated in 'Santa in the City,' a 5k run around London dressed as Santa, raising over £1,100 for the British Heart Foundation. 🐕 Some of our Quality & Risk team ventured to Cardiff Dogs Home to take the dogs on their Christmas walks. ☃️ Our Commercial Property team went all out with their Christmas jumper day to raise money for Save the Children UK. 🎄 Members of the Clinical Negligence team became elves for the day when they helped make The Birth Partner Project’s Christmas Party a magical event for all their volunteers and Mums. 🎁 Our team in Manchester went to Ronald McDonald House Charities to help decorate the house and wrap presents for the children. Find out more about our CSR days and charity partners here 🔗 https://bit.ly/3U4BArh

🛫 As Christmas approaches, it’s the time of the year when people start heading off on their winter vacations. Rebecca Gilmore, Senior Associate and Travel litigation specialist, shares her top tips on staying safe on Winter holidays in her latest blog. "For many, the thrill of a winter holiday is no longer limited to traditional activities such as skiing, sledging and skating. Racing across magical icy landscapes on a skidoo, ice fishing in Scandinavia, snow rafting and ziplining in Norway, and night sledding with huskies and reindeer are just some of the brilliant winter adventures on offer. Being prepared for if something was to go wrong will not dampen the thrill and fun of your adventure, but it will put you in a better position both practically and legally if it does." 🔗 Click here to read more: https://bit.ly/49HAgRA

🙌 We are pleased to have advised Primacare Holdings Limited on the successful reorganisation of the Primacare Holdings Group and subsequent disposal of the group to an employee ownership trust. The transfer of the business into employee ownership is an exciting and positive step for the future of the company. Corporate/Commercial Partner Andrew Hoad led the deal, assisted by Solicitor Kate Wilson and Trainee Solicitor Ruby Duncalf. 💬 Commenting on the reorganisation, Andrew said: “It was great to be able to assist David and the Primacare team with pulling this transaction together within such a tight time frame. We look forward to working with them as they embark on their next stage as an employee-owned business.” 🔗 Find out more here: https://bit.ly/4gCCBzj

✨ Welcome back! ✨ Catherine Adamec, Trainee Solicitor in our Corporate/Commercial, has recently finished up her time on our international secondment program with our e-sports client, BetVictor, after spending three months with them in Gibraltar. 💬 Speaking on the opportunity: “I’ve had a fantastic three months working at BetVictor and have learnt so much during my time here. Working in-house is a completely new experience and comes with many different challenges compared to private practice. Being able to lead one-on-one meetings with various stakeholders in the company has been a great way to improve my communication skills, and it has been very interesting to gain insight into the gambling sector. It has also been great to be involved in such a wide variety of different contracts, as it has allowed me to really expand my knowledge.” We would also like to thank Ruby Duncalf, who joined our corporate commercial team at our London office and made the swap from Gibraltar. 🔗 Read more on the program here: https://bit.ly/4fWedZL

💻 There has been an alarming rise in crypto fraud in the last couple of years. Losses have increased by more than 40%, surpassing 300 million GBP for the first time last year. With the increase in these scams, crypto experts Partner Roman Kubiak TEP and Senior Associate Kieran Forsyth sat down to discuss them, how to avoid them, and the importance of using legitimate crypto exchanges and wallets to combat them. 🔗 Watch the full podcast here: https://bit.ly/3ZTOxr7