The Kelan buy-out is yet another feather in the cap for solicitors' practice Denison Till which appears to be striking a series of mighty blows for professional services in York.

Andrew Lindsay of Denison Till has been handling the kind of major projects which giant firms in London and Leeds have come to expect to win as a matter of privilege and prestige.

But acting on the principle that intricate corporate deals are as much about application of grey matter as gloss, Mr Lindsay has been stealing the thunder of London and Leeds by handling transactions worth more than a total £12 million and representing a collective turnover of £100 million within three months.

He has achieved it by -

Acting for John Weatherill, the principal shareholder of JWE Telecoms of Pocklington by disposing of his majority holding in the company

Sealing a management buy-out at British Buttons on the Green Park industrial estate, Sutton-on-the-Forest in which managing director Peter Bownes and his wife, Helen, bought the

31-staff factory from brothers Geoff and

Howard Green in just two weeks

Steering the sale of £50 million turnover Internet Software Corporation of Clifton Moor to TrustMarque of Gerrards Cross for an undisclosed sum. Now known as Trustmarque Solutions Ltd, the firm in Amy Johnson Way can expect to add up to 30 jobs to the 90 on its payroll within the next year

Acting for a major York training firm on sale of its business and assets to a high tech organisation

Reorganising a major North Yorkshire-based food manufacturer prior to imminent sale of all its share capital and

Working on other deals still in the pipeline and being kept "under wraps".

Garry Shuttleworth, marketing co-ordinator for Denison Till said: "The high number of quality deals we've transacted reflects the high standard of our expertise on corporate matters .

It proves the long-standing argument - that important York firms don't have to go to Leeds or London to get advice."