The niche corporate/commercial firm has also increased their staff numbers creating 28 new jobs over the past two years.

Hackett Windle's partners, Adrian Hackett, Jamie Windle and Daniel Corker, have forged close and productive relationships with many of the UK's largest and most successful companies and also with complimentary professional practices in both the UK and around the world.

Adrian Hackett, solicitor and chartered tax adviser, recently assisted NG Bailey, one of the UK's leading building services companies, with their acquisition of the specialist IT services business s2s Ltd, providing them with corporate tax advice. Adrian also regularly works as a tax consultant for some of the larger law firms as well as many local and national accountants and a number of UK and offshore trust providers in the UK who don't have specialist internal tax expertise.

In the financial year ending April 2008 Daniel Corker and his team of associate solicitors completed the acquisition or disposal of businesses with a total value well in excess of £60,000,000 the majority of which transactions were carried out in the healthcare and hotel sectors.

The firm was formed in May 2005 by Adrian Hackett and Jamie Windle, initially working from one small office in Chesterfield. Daniel Corker joined in February 2006 and Hackett Windle branched out into their Sheffield city centre offices later that year. The firm's principal areas of expertise are mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, tax, property and commercial litigation.

Hackett Windle's staff numbers are set to increase further in the near future with three of the firm's trainee solicitors, Kate McGovern, Michelle Upton and Nicola Hewitt, due to qualify this summer and with LPC graduates from around the country currently vying to secure a training contracts due to commence in the early summer. Hackett Windle aims to develop the next generation of talented corporate/commercial solicitors and in the provision of tax and corporate expertise unique to this region.