Long-serving Hill Dickinson chief executive to step down as successor named

The chief executive of law firm Hill Dickinson is to step down in 2024, it has been announced.

Peter Jackson will be succeeded in the role by business services group head, Craig Scott, on April 30. Mr Jackson, a marine and transport specialist, he has been with the Liverpool-headquartered firm since 1983, where he was made managing partner in 2005 and became CEO in 2016.

Mr Jackson will be staying with the firm in an advisory capacity and will become a member of its board. Mr Scott will become CEO following more than 13 years as a corporate partner and is a former head of corporate at the practice.

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Fiona Parry, partner and head of the commercial litigation team, who has also been at the firm since 2010, has been named as the new head of BSG. Established in 1810, Hill Dickinson is an international commercial law firm which employs around 950 people across 10 offices, six of which are in the UK and four in Hong Kong, Singapore, Piraeus and Monaco.

Mr Jackson said: "The past 18 years at the helm of the firm have been both exci