DAC Beachcroft has agreed a formal best friends relationship with Northern Ireland insurance firm McKinty & Wright.

The three-year deal will see DAC and McKinty & Wright refer work to each other from shared clients as well as combining the marketing of the two firms.

DAC has offices across England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland but has no offices of its own in Northern Ireland.

Managing partner David Pollitt said that the agreement would allow DAC to offer an “unrivalled coverage across the UK and Ireland” now that the firm has bases across all five jurisdictions.

Belfast-based McKinty and Wright is a specialist insurance defendant firm and has 19 lawyers and seven partners. The agreement will launch on 1 June.

In April DAC submitted an application to the Malaysian Bar Council for a licence to form a joint venture (JV) in the region. The JV will be set up with DAC’s existing local association firm Gan Partnership. The two firms have worked together since 2012 when Gan Partnership launched after a number of its lawyers left local firm Le Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill.

DAC also has associations in Canada with McCague Borlack and Brrazil through Demarest Advogados. The firm also operates a number of best friend relationships across Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden.

Source: Industry News