Wed, 14 May 2025 | MERGER
Harrowells Solicitors, a 120-strong Yorkshire law firm with seven offices across the region, has merged with Harrogate-based specialist private client and property law firm The Garfitt Law Partnership.
The deal will see Garfitt Law Partnership co-owners David Garfitt and Sally Robinson join Harrowells as consultant solicitors and enable them to offer a broader range of advisory services, while continuing to look after their existing clients.
The enlarged practice will benefit from the additional technical expertise gained through the merger, which builds on a series of senior level lateral hires that Harrowells has made over the past year.
Harrowells, which has offices in York, Clifton Moor, Haxby, Easingwold, Thirsk, Malton and Pocklington, provides an array of specialist legal services to both businesses and individuals.
Commenting on the merger, Harrowells Head of Private Client Ed Ryder said: "David and Sally are well known for their formidable technical expertise and very high standards of client service in their respective fields of private client and property law. Their approach is very much at one with ours and we look forward to welcoming them and their clients into the wider practice.”
"Clients of The Garfitt Law Partnership are drawn from across Yorkshire, including Harrogate, Ripon, York and East Yorkshire. David and Sally will now be able to use our branch network to meet contacts and colleagues, as well as continue to see clients at their businesses or homes, as they have previously."
The merger sees David Garfitt join Harrowell’s Private Client Department, which has grown to become one of the largest across North and East Yorkshire. Sally Robinson, meanwhile, will continue to advise clients on agricultural, residential and commercial property matters as part of Harrowell’s Agricultural Property Department.
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