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Rapid growth sees firm extend Qld presence
A national firm has expanded its Brisbane office after announcing its headcount has grown by 272 per cent since 2013.
Emma Musgrave
Despite poor market conditions, Colin Biggers & Paisley has decided to increase its office to cater for more recruitments and the demand from clients.
Since then the firm has also added expertise in the areas of construction, insurance, property, planning, banking, corporate, restructuring and dispute resolution through a number of strategic hires.
“The reason we set up an office in Brisbane is because our clients wanted us to and we had to listen to them. In the last three years our Brisbane team has gone from strength to strength,” said Dunstan de Souza, managing partner at CBP.
“As our reputation in the Queensland market has grown, we've found that we've been able to attract the best lawyers from other firms in a variety of practice areas.
“Our growth strategy has been to ensure that we hire lawyers who will enable the Brisbane team to mirror the strengths of our Sydney and Melbourne offices, which have been in existence for longer. By any measure, our expansion into Queensland has been a spectacular success.”
Over the past 12 months CBP has appointed nine partners, including property and development partner Rebecca Castley, employment partner Megan Kavanagh, construction partner Victor Borzillo and restructuring partner Damien Butler.
Emma Musgrave
Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.
Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences.
Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.
She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University.
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