Beyond Professional Services—James Flynn

The former Manchester head of Fieldfisher Matt Fleetwood and corporate partner Jim Truscott have announced that Fieldfisher’s head of construction James Flynn will also be joining them in their new boutique venture, the Beyond Professional Services Group.

Matt (centre) and Jim (left) departed Fieldfisher last year to found the Beyond group, which since its inception has gone on to incorporated McAlister Family Law and corporate boutique Atticus Law. The latter enabled the founding of the company’s Beyond Corporate arm, where James (right) will now sit as partner. He will focus on advising entrepreneurial real estate clients on residential and commercial developments, including hotels and student accommodation, as well as working with the firm’s construction client base.

Commenting on the firm’s recent growth, Matt said: ‘The Group has grown rapidly from six to nearly 40 in little more than nine months, and every person we hire really gets what we’re trying to achieve here. We’re not trying to be different for the sake of it, but because we want to challenge the norm and say—just because it’s always been done in a certain way doesn’t mean there aren’t better ways to reach the same goal.  And although we’re deadly serious about the business of law, we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

‘James totally understands, and appreciates, our ethos. We’re disrupting the traditional culture—which constrains many firms and practitioners—in a hugely positive way, and James is a key part of that.’