New model law firm gunnercooke has launched a litigation practice with the hire of a six-strong team including four new partners.

The partners include Mike Kenyon, a Hill Dickinson financial crime consultant and former commercial fraud partner at Burton Copeland, and former DLA Piper and Irwin Mitchell partner Sarah Sharpe, who joins the firm from Sinclair Sharpe, which she launched two years ago. Sharpe specialises in corporate crime and regulatory work.