Firms merge to create multi-service professional platform
Leeds-based private client and corporate advisory law firms have today merged with wealth management firm, The Lawrence Scoffield Group, to form Progeny, a new multi-service professional platform.
Consisting of Progeny Private Law—co-founded by former partners at Gordons LLP, Frances Davies, Martin Hasyn and Simon Glazebrook, and solicitior Suzannah Farnell, Progeny Corporate Law—formerly Mark Burns Legal Services (MBLS), founded by ex-Clarion managing partner Mark Burns, and Progeny Wealth—formerly The Lawrence Scoffield Group, Progeny is an integrated platform and extensive network of private client and corporate solicitors and wealth planners, to meet the needs of individuals, families and businesses.
Frances Davies, director of Progeny Private Law, says: “We are really excited to be part of combining the disciplines of private and corporate legal advice with wealth management expertise, to create a working environment where we have the opportunity to place clients’ interests at the centre of everything we do.”
Mark Burns, managing director of Progeny Corporate Law, comments: “Progeny is a unique opportunity to provide private client legal and wealth management advice to our corporate clients. This addresses a need our corporate clients have to integrate their advice across multiple disciplines.”
Neil Moles, managing director of Progeny, comments: “Progeny provides a unique combination of wealth management and legal advice for private clients, corporates and family offices. Progeny was born out of an ambition to create the first multi-service professional platform designed to match client goals with those of the professionals advising them.”
