68 | Tees Business
VISION
Tees law firm
marks 20th year
with restructure –
and looks ahead
to next 20 years
WORDS BY JOANNE BARRETT
PICTURES BY CHRIS BOOTH
O
ne floor in a Teesside office
building, 10 staff and a vision –
that’s how Endeavour Partnership
started out 20 years ago.
Two decades later that vision to provide
the best commercial legal solutions for their
clients remains exactly the same, but things
are on a much bigger scale.
‘Business, taken personally’ is the mantra
of the Teesdale Business Park-based firm
which, as its 20th anniversary approaches,
has announced a brand-new management
structure to take the company forward.
Lee Bramley, previous head of the
commercial disputes and insolvency
teams at the business law firm, has been
appointed Endeavour Partnership’s new
managing partner.
The Teesside University graduate has
been with the company for 17 years and
takes the reins from retiring head and
founding partner Paul Bury.
He’s joined by a management team
consisting of five other partners who all
have a stake in the business and their own
responsibilities within it.
Simon Wake is head of commercial
property, Stephen Elliott is head of the
employment department, HR partner
Ged Flanagan is head of commercial
disputes, Nik Tunley is head of corporate
and commercial and finance partner and
fellow partner Nigel Williams will manage
Endeavour’s business development and
marketing strategy.
The new structure is a major change for
Endeavour and one which the team is very
much relishing.
“Twenty years ago, four partners started
the firm and Paul Bury, the last of the
founding four, has retired, which is the main
reason for the change in structure,” says
Lee.
“You could say it is a handing over of the
reins to a younger generation, a new team
ready to lead us forward in to the next 20
years.”
Put the six all together in a room and fire
questions at them and what comes across
is just how committed they are to the area
they serve and how passionate they are
about the job they do.