Led by its team of Partners, GHP Legal Solicitors of Wrexham, Oswestry and Llangollen is a multi-disciplinary practice employing around one hundred people and serving a client base stretching across more than 10 counties in England and Wales.
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Gwilym Hughes & Partners
1970 The Success Story Began
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Partner
Gwilym Hughes
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Partner
Gethin Davies
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Partner
Clive Jones
The success story of GHP Legal began in April 1970 when Gwilym Hughes, Gethin Davies and Clive Jones, all of whom were Partners in the Wrexham & Shotton Practice of Cyril Jones & Co, joined forces to establish Gwilym Hughes & Partners.
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1980
Peter Butler became a Partner
Peter Butler, served his Articles with Gwilym Hughes & Partners and became a Partner in the firm in 1980.
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1984
Stephen Edwards became a Partner
Peter Butler's partnership was followed in 1984 by that of Stephen Edwards, who also served his Articles with the firm
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1991
Acquisition of Charles Richards & Sons
In 1991 the partnership expanded further with the acquisition of the long established Llangollen firm, Charles Richards and Sons.
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1996
Pamela Whitley joins Gwilym Hughes & Partners as a Partner.
A merger in 1996 with Edmund Pickles and Upton of Wrexham saw Pamela Whitley join Gwilym Hughes & Partners as a Partner.
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Following the merger, the Partnership owned all the buildings in a large triangular area at the junction of Grosvenor Road and Rhosddu Road. The Wrexham site was then redeveloped with the buildings being connected to form one large office complex.
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1999
John Lancaster became a Partner of the Firm
John Lancaster became a Partner of the Firm in 1999, following the retirement of Gwilym Hughes.
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2000
Merger with Brown & Lloyd
In 2000 the Firm merged with Brown & Lloyd of Oswestry, formerly A W Brown & Co which was established in 1980. The Partners, Richard Lloyd and John Hulme, continued to work from The Albany, 37/39 Willow Street, Oswestry, the current GHP Legal premises.
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Partner
Emyr Richard Lloyd
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Partner
John Hulme
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2001
Robert Williams and Alun Williams became Partners.
Gethin Davies retired as a partner.
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Partner
Robert Williams
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Partner
Alun Williams
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2008
Llangollen Office Relocation
Gwilym Hughes & Partners relocated to new offices in The Malthouse Business Centre, Llangollen.
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Rebranding
In 2009 the Management Team of Gwilym Hughes & Partners evaluated the very substantial and far reaching successes of the Firm and, rather than merely consolidate this, commenced strategic planning for the next stage of development. As a part of this they decided to formalise the abbreviation of the Firm's name to which members of the Profession, Clients, the Media and others, had been referring for some years, and rebrand as "GHP Legal" - a fresh and modern approach that aptly reflects the Firm's position as one of the premier law firms in the region.
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2012
2012 saw the appointment of Euros Jones, John Marshall and Nathan Wright as Equity Partners.
Peter Butler and Pamela Whitley retired as equity partners.
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Partner
Euros Jones
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Partner
John Marshall
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Partner
Nathan Wright
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2013 - 2014
2013 saw the return of GHP Legal to it's original Old Bank Buildings in Llangollen
Mr Alun Williams retired as a Partner.
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2015
Saw the appointment of Victoria Wilson, Alison Peters and Natalie Roberts as Equity Partners
following the retirements of John Lancaster, John Marshall and E Kerfoot.
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Partner
Victoria Wilson
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Partner
Alison Peters
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Partner
Natalie Roberts
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2015
Fifteen years after the merger with Brown & Lloyd of Oswestry, GHP Legal acquired the Chirk and Oswestry practices of Stevens Lucas
The staff from there moved over to our Willow Street offices. Former Senior Partner, Patrick Stevens, became a Consultant with the Firm and Linda Hill, another former partner joined us as a Senior Solicitor.
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2017
Saw the appointment of Emma Simoes as an Equity Partner.
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Partner
Emma Simoes
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2018
Saw the appointment of Michael Keeling and Hywel Jones as Equity Partners.
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Partner
Michael Keeling
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Hywel Jones
Partner
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2018
Acquisition of Milton Francis and Hughes
Three years after the acquisition of Stevens Lucas, GHP Legal acquired the Oswestry practice of Milton Francis and Hughes. Former Senior Partner Richard Hughes became a Consultant with GHP Legal. Jeremy Case and Kellie Lewis joined GHP Legal.