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End of an era for Travers as Reed to succeed Patient as managing partner

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Nathalie Tidman
16 November 2020
Law firm management

David Patient is to hand the Travers Smith managing partner baton to private equity partner Edmund Reed, the firm announced this morning (16 November).

Reed, a partner in Travers’ private equity and financial sponsors group and member of the firm’s partnership board since 2013, will assume the role on 1 July 2021.

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