Zarenna is a solicitor in our Company Commercial team.
Zarenna joined Machins in December 2021 as a paralegal in the Dispute Resolution team. She qualified as a solicitor in July 2024 and is now in the Company Commercial team.
She graduated from the University of Leicester with a first class law degree in 2018 and completed the Legal Practice Course and Masters in Law, achieving a distinction in 2019.
Before joining Machins, she worked as an Investigator at the Financial Ombudsman Service for SMEs in the banking team.
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Machins Solicitors has demonstrated once again its ability to deliver to its clients, maintaining its position as a top-tier firm for family law for the sixth consecutive year. We are also proud to announce that our multi-faceted practice has been recommended in a further seven practice areas in The Legal 500 2025 edition.
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