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‘A good time to take over’: Stephenson Harwood appoints new head of corporate as H1 revenues up by 17%

With Stephenson Harwood’s chief executive Sharon White this month reappointed for a further three-year term, the high profile transactional lawyer has relinquished her dual role as head of corporate to Andrew Edge, who concedes that ‘it is a good time to take over’, with the department’s revenues up by 17% in the first half of the 2013/14 financial year.

Edge (pictured) formally takes over on April 1 2014, with the firm’s City corporate practice’s revenue on an upward trajectory, having risen to £14.3m in the 2012-13 financial year, up nearly 7% from £13.4m in 2011-12.

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