Bailhache and Appleby Spurling are to join forces

Legal firms Bailhache Labesse and Appleby Spurling Hunter are to merge on 1 September this year. Mike O'Connell, chairman of the management committee at Bailhache Labesse, said the merger would create the only offshore provider of legal, fiduciary and administrative services with a foothold in four offshore business centres - Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Jersey. The combined group will be known as Appleby Hunter Bailhache and have nearly 600 employees. The new group will offer general company and corporate advice, insurance, funds and investment services, a...