ACE affiliate Beale & Co is delighted to announce the arrival of Paul Henty as a new partner in the firm’s corporate and commercial practice.

Paul joins from Charles Russell Speechlys LLP where he was co-head of the EU Competition Law practice.

Paul is a highly regarded with significant expertise advising on a wide range of regulatory issues, including competition law, public procurement and the Modern Slavery Act 2015. He also has extensive experience advising on more general corporate and commercial contracts, GDPR, the filing of regulatory complaints and assisting businesses of all sectors to achieve compliance.

Paul joins Beale & Co’s specialist team of leading legal advisors to the construction, engineering and infrastructure sector. With a strong background in this sector, Paul will work closely alongside corporate and commercial Partner James Hutchinson, to service the firm’s construction sector client base, including ACE members.

Paul said: “I am delighted to be joining Beale & Co at a time of exciting growth for the firm across a number of areas. I will add my regulatory and competition law expertise to the firm’s practice but also provide additional bandwidth to James’s public procurement and corporate/commercial practice."

"Construction and engineering has been an important part of my practice to date and I am very aware of Beale’s impressive work with regard to large, international infrastructure projects.”