Marie-Louise Hamilton to be Managing Partner at Wrigleys Solicitors LLP
Marie-Louise Hamilton has been appointed managing partner and will start the role in May 2019.
Marie-Louise is also the joint head of the private client team and a member of the Wrigleys' Board. She succeeds Paul Nash, who has been managing partner since 2010.
Marie-Louise has been with Wrigleys for 21 years. She qualified in 1995 and joined the London private client department of law firm Alsop Wilkinson – now DLA Piper – before moving to Lawrence Graham. She provides specialist tax and estate planning advice for individuals and their families, concentrating mainly on entrepreneurial clients and those with family businesses. Marie-Louise is included in the 2019 Chambers High Net Worth Guide which features the world’s leading advisers in this market.
Paul Nash, will remain as a partner at Wrigleys in the property team. His comments on the developments are: "I am very pleased with Marie-Louise's appointment as my successor and have great confidence in her leadership. We have been working together for the past year to ensure that the transition is a smooth one and that Wrigleys continues to provide top quality legal advice for which it has developed a national reputation."
Marie-Louise Hamilton said "I am very proud to have been appointed to lead this progressive firm through the next phase of its expansion. Paul has ably led the firm's continued growth over the last nine years and his work on the firm's governance and succession has provided an excellent and exciting platform for the future."
We are proud to be at the forefront of championing leading women in law with a 63% female partnership, a figure well above the average.
Left to right: Marie-Louise Hamilton and Paul Nash