Liverpool-based Hill Dickinson has merged with 14-partner local property specialist Bullivant Jones, making it one of the largest firms in the northwest with 111 partners. The merged firm will take the Hill Dickinson name with Bullivant Jones senior partner Pamela Jones taking a seat on the firm’s board. This is the second acquisition that Hill Dickinson has made recently. In November the firm took on Manchester firm George Davies’ clinical negligence team.

First reported on www.legalweek.com (11 December).