The Managing Partner of Clyde & Co's Manchester office is to leave the firm.

Dene Rowe's career at the firm has been fleeting. He joined the soon-to-be-defunct Barlow Lyde & Gilbert in 2010, having been IT director at the collapsed Halliwells. He certainly knows how to pick them... He was promoted from Operations Director to Managing Partner of the office in May last year, seven months before it too went south and was taken over by Clyde & Co. And just five months on, he's on the move again. Insiders say that he's off to Keoghs. Which will no doubt be hoping that he brings more luck than he brought his previous firms.

     Jonah yesterday

Rowe's departure follows that of seven legacy BLG partners from the firm's Hong Kong office. More are bound to follow. Predictions at the time of the takeover that it would take its inevitable toll on BLG partners seem to be coming to pass.

A spokeswoman said that "Dene is leaving..."


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