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Aspen Legal expands NSW offering with senior hire from HPX Group
Melbourne-based secondments business Aspen Legal has strengthened its Sydney presence with the addition of a head of secondments NSW, who joins from HPX Group.
Lauren Croft
Most recently, the director of clients at HPX Group, Felicity Lyall, has been appointed as the head of secondments NSW at Aspen Legal.
Commenting on the appointment, Aspen Legal co-founder and director Nat Parbhu said the addition would continue to drive growth opportunities for the firm in Sydney and NSW.
“Felicity brings a wealth of experience in growth and business development to the Aspen legal business, and we’re delighted to welcome her to the team at this pivotal point in Aspen Legal’s growth trajectory. Aspen has experienced rapid growth within the Sydney legal secondments market, and we’re excited to be able to better connect our Sydney-based in-house clients with top legal talent,” he said.
“In addition to this newly created role, we have also recently relocated Alys White, our head of talent acquisition, to Sydney. This reflects both the importance of Sydney to our growth agenda, as well as the current state of the secondments market there, which is the most active I can recall in nearly 10 years of running legal secondment businesses in Australia.”
Aspen Legal has clients ranging from ASX 200 and multinational corporations to higher education institutions and start-ups, and it features an advisory “law firm” style business providing legal advice in an in-house manner.
“Corporates have become increasingly sophisticated in how they resource their individual legal service requirements rather than reverting to an outdated panel law firm model in the hope that one size fits all,” Parbhu said.
“Specialist legal secondment providers such as Aspen Legal are no longer regarded as alternative legal services providers but more as the providers of bespoke resourcing solutions.”
Lauren Croft
Lauren is a journalist at Lawyers Weekly and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Macleay College. Prior to joining Lawyers Weekly, she worked as a trade journalist for media and travel industry publications and Travel Weekly. Originally born in England, Lauren enjoys trying new bars and restaurants, attending music festivals and travelling. She is also a keen snowboarder and pre-pandemic, spent a season living in a French ski resort.
