Recently expanded law firm Colin Biggers & Paisley (CBP) has recruited Nigel Watson from TressCox Lawyers as a partner based in Melbourne. He becomes the firm's third lateral hire at partner level in as many months, in addition to the six partners who joined when CBP merged with Monahan + Rowell last month.
Watson was chairman of the Hunt & Hunt legal group before he joined TressCox and prior to that he was a partner with Norton Rose predecessor firms for more than 20 years. As chairman of the insolvency and reconstruction committee of the Law Council of Australia, he established a national focus on reform and a common working agenda. He is also a member of the Law Institute of Victoria Commercial Litigation Law Specialisation Advisory Committee and recommended in numerous legal guides for his expertise in both insolvency and restructuring and in dispute resolution.
"Our five year strategic plan focuses on developing the firm's expertise in our core areas of dispute resolution, insurance, construction and property,” said CBP managing partner Dunstan de Souza. "Nigel's work in defending solicitors and barristers in professional negligence claims on behalf of their professional indemnity insurers is a particularly good fit with the work of Patrick Monahan, our Melbourne senior partner, and Peter Moran, our insurance practice group leader. Nigel also brings us an insolvency and reconstruction practice that will complement and support our expertise in those areas in Sydney."
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