Lawrence Graham, the London-headquartered law firm, has bolstered its finance practice with the addition of Iain Shurwood as a partner.

Shurwood will join the 36-strong finance team at Lawrence Graham at the end of this month, having previously been with Squire Sanders Hammonds.

Before joining Squire Sanders Hammonds in the summer of 2008, Shurwood had been with Denton Wilde Sapte. His career has predominantly focused on acquisition finance, corporate lending and workouts.

“We are very much growing the finance practice generally at the moment. Iain’s hire is designed to push us into more corporate banking work, get us acting for the lenders, and grow our corporate banking portfolio. We have not been over-exposed as a practice to the financial crisis, so we are now looking to take advantage of that by investing,” said Nick Turner, head of banking at Lawrence Graham.