Lawyers

Chris Rawstron

Chris Rawstron

Irwin Mitchell, West Midlands

Work Department

Corporate and commercial.

Position

Partner. Birmingham head of business legal services and national head of corporate and commercial.

Career

Trained Edge & Ellison; qualified 1986; Edge & Ellison 1984-97; partner 1990; head of corporate 1994-96; DLA Piper 1997-2010; Birmingham office managing partner 1999-2010; consultant 2010-11; Marie Curie Cancer Care 2010-13; volunteer chairman West Midlands Capital Appeal; Irwin Mitchell LLP 2013 to date; partner, Birmingham head of business legal services. Current directorships: Birmingham Patron for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Memberships

Law Society.

Education

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School; Birmingham University (graduated 1983); Chester College of Law.

Leisure

Running, cycling, golf.