Tenon Group has hired a senior partner from Beachcroft Wansbroughs to build a corporate practice, just weeks after the professional services consolidator’s ground-breaking acquisition of West End boutique Statham Gill Davies.

James Beshoff – who led Beachcrofts’ respected water practice and had been at the firm for 18 years – will join Tenon Statham Gill Davies with a mandate to launch a serious corporate capability for Tenon’s new legal arm.