Holland Beckett has named Luke Stewart as the latest addition to its team of partners.
Mr Stewart is the fourth addition in four years, bringing the number of partners to 11. Other recent partners include Lara Burkhardt (2011), Mark Beech (2013) and Peter Lewis, from this year's acquisition of McKechnie Quirke & Lewis.
Mr Stewart joined Holland Beckett in 2006 and specialises in company, commercial, property and employment law.
He worked for Langley Twigg in Napier, then spent two years in London before returning to the Bay of Plenty, where he had grown up. Mr Stewart is well-known in the Tauranga business community and is Tauranga Chamber of Commerce vice-chairman.
Senior partner Bill Holland said the decision to build new premises had been a major turning point for the firm.