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Endeavour Partnership operations director Sharon
Hutchinson (left) with the firm’s co-founder and managing
partner Paul Bury and Xcel Centre director Kerina Clark at
Endeavour’s new office on Aycliffe Business Park.
LEGALS
HAVE LANDED
Growing law firm Endeavour
Partnership has expanded to
Aycliffe Business Park. Aycliffe
Today editor Martin Walker
reports…
O
ne of Teesside’s leading law firms is
targeting further growth after opening
an office on Aycliffe Business Park.
Stockton-based Endeavour Partnership
has expanded to Aycliffe and wants to bridge
what it says is an obvious gap between
Leeds and Newcastle for “city-level” legal
services.
The firm was launched in 1999 by four
partners who saw the need for a law firm to
provide purely commercial legal services.
It has built up a strong reputation over the
past 20 years for providing high-quality advice
on a range of business law matters including
mergers and acquisitions, intellectual
property, employment and pensions,
business immigration, commercial property
and corporate recovery from its headquarters
at Teesdale.
Endeavour Partnership was again
recognised as one of the North East’s top
corporate and commercial practices in the
prestigious Legal 500 and Chambers guides
with every department highly ranked this
year.
To build on its impressive growth over the
last two years, Endeavour Partnership has
now identified Aycliffe Business Park as a key
growth area.
Co-founder and managing partner Paul
Bury said: “We already work with a number
Endeavour Partnership has worked closely
with Norman and Craig Peterson, of
Aycliffe-based Growth Capital Ventures.
of key clients in Newton Aycliffe, and we
want to expand on that.
“We’re also very committed to the
business park and its community. We’re keen
to get involved in local initiatives and we’ve
already agreed to sponsor the business
park’s Make Your Mark awards for a third year
running.
“We know there’s very much a community
feel to Aycliffe, but we also know there are a
lot of firms who don’t know about the level
of services we provide.
“You don’t need to go to Leeds or
Newcastle to access so-called city-level
legal services. We have a team of highly-
experienced corporate lawyers who can
cover every aspect of business law.”
Endeavour’s Aycliffe office, within the
Xcel Centre at the heart of Aycliffe Business
Park, is being headed up by lifelong Aycliffe
resident Sharon Hutchinson, who knows the
area well and is also managing director and
chair of the Darlington Business Club.
“I’ve lived in Newton Aycliffe all my life, so
to see this excitement and optimism around
the business park is fantastic,” added Sharon.
“There’s so much good stuff going on in
the area and we feel we have a contribution