People on the move: Together; Savills; Slater & Gordon Pareto FP; Emirates Old Trafford; Vincents Solicitors
People on the move is sponsored by family law firm Hall Brown
Specialist lender Together, based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, has appointed commercial lending expert Steve Luty as its corporate development director.
Luty will handle client relationships for Together’s highly-successful lending operation, focusing on the commercial and buy-to-let markets.
Luty, whose career in property and finance spans 30 years, was previously head of business centres at Nationwide, managing a large team and overseeing commercial property lending in the North and Midlands.
He has dealt with all types of lending during his impressive career, with previous roles at Lloyds and the Bank of Scotland, where he was area director for Liverpool, Chester and North Wales. He was also head of business centres for Alliance & Leicester prior to joining Nationwide in 2009.
Luty said: “My aim is to continue to enhance Together’s position as a leader in the specialist finance industry. The business has more than 40 years of successful trading; providing finance to markets underserved by mainstream lenders and it’s a really exciting prospect to be joining Together at this time, as it continues to reshape what we think of as traditional financial services.”
Chris Baguley, commercial director at Together, added: “Steve has a wealth of experience in managing corporate relationships, across the North West and nationally, and helping businesses secure the funding they need to invest in commercial property, so we’re delighted to welcome him at a time when we are realising our future growth plans.”
Together has a current loan book of £2bn, with total new lending for the year ended 31 December 2016 at just under £1.1bn.
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International real estate advisor Savills has announced 16 fee-earner promotions at its Manchester office.
Spanning seven divisions, the promotions will see one person move up to director level, six become associate directors and a further nine take on the role of associate.
The full list of promotions is as follows:
Alex Palfreyman, business space – industrial, director; Paul Crowe, building & project consultancy, associate director; Rosalind Ellis, Stuart Longden, Craig McCall, Tom Morris-Chippendale, Aliston Tollerefield, all property management associate directors; Richard Mitchell, building & project consultancy, associate; Laura Mackay, development, associate; Berit Rose, development, associate; Jonathan Ainley, planning, associate; Peter Whittingham, planning, associate; Andy Ellis-Lomas, property management, associate; Olga Lipniski, property management, associate; Freddie Guest, UK investment, associate; Stewart Clark, valuation, associate.
James Evans, head of Savills Manchester, said: “I would like to congratulate these 16 individuals on their very well deserved promotions, which recognise the vital contribution each has made to the success of their divisions and the Savills Manchester office as a whole.”
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Six new recruits have joined the travel team at the Manchester office of law firm Slater and Gordon.
The expansion follows a rise in demand for specialist lawyers to represent clients who have been seriously injured or fallen ill as a result of negligence abroad.
Headed up by Paul McClorry who has more than 11 years’ experience in the field, the department deals with cases relating to incidents that have happened overseas where the laws and jurisdiction are often different to the UK.
Saira Hussain, formerly of Clyde & Co, had more than seven years’ experience in all types of personal injury cases that have occurred outside of the UK.
Danielle Rand, formerly of Horwich Cohen Coghlan Solicitors, has more than five years’ experience of representing clients who have suffered serious injury.
Alexandra Eaves, who moves from DWF Solicitors, specialises in cases of holiday illness and James Griffin joins the team from Simpson Millar LLP, with experience in complex cross-jurisdictional matters.
Caitlin Dunn and Faisal Latif have also joined the city centre firm as litigation executives, as well as a further four internal promotions within the team.
Paul McClorry, head of travel litigation at Slater and Gordon, said: “Going on holiday should be a relaxing experience, a break from the stresses of everyday life, but unfortunately sometimes injury or illness gets in the way.
“Over the last few years we have seen a marked increase in the number of people contacting us for advice, which is why we have made the decision to expand.
“Our new colleagues bring a wealth of experience and we are delighted to have them on board so we can continue to provide expert advice and support to those who need it most.”
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Financial planning consultancy Pareto FP is building its team to build on a record-breaking 2016.
Independent financial advisers, pictured, Anthony Bruchez and Alex Savage, financial services administrator Simon Hawkins and paraplanner Maura Zara have all joined the Manchester firm. 
Pareto took on eight new employees during 2016, its best-ever financial year that saw turnover increase to £3.4m, up 26% on 2015.
Leeds-born Savage is now working out of accountancy introducer Alexander & Co, having spent the last six years as an IFA in the region.
Bruchez, who has 10 years’ experience in financial services, will be looking after Pareto’s portfolio of existing clients.
He said: “I couldn’t be more pleased to be working for Pareto, a premier firm of financial planners.
“I’m passionate about providing truly independent fee-based advice, and for that there is nowhere better to be.”
Hawkins joins the employee benefits team from Friends Life, while Zara is now part of the paraplanning department working closely with Pareto’s team of advisers.
The four new hires take the headcount at Pareto FP, based on St John Street in Manchester city centre, close to 40.
Pareto will be expanding its accountancy network this year and expects to take on three more Independent financial advisers – two to work out of existing accountancy connections and the other to link up with a recently won accountancy practice, all based in the North West.
The firm was founded nine years ago by John Stevenson and George Chantry.
Stevenson said: “We are expecting 2017 to be another record-breaking year for Pareto FP and feel our four latest recruits will help us drive the business towards that goal.
“The challenge now is to continue to recruit high calibre professionals to meet increasing demand for our services, from both our existing clients and new professional introducers.”
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Emirates Old Trafford has welcomed Janice Barrington-Wood as sales manager of the new Hilton Garden Inn which opens this summer.
Barrington-Wood brings more than 20 years’ sales experience and arrives from the Hilton at Manchester Airport where she was sales manager for four and a half years.
Prior to that, she worked at the Etrop Grange and the MacDonald hotel in Chester working as Regional Sales Manager and Revenue Manager respectively.
Daniel Gidney, chief executive at Emirates Old Trafford said, “I am delighted to welcome Janice. She brings valuable experience and knowledge within the hotel sector and will be a great addition to our team.”
The Hilton Garden Inn at Emirates Old Trafford will be the crowning glory in the Venue’s re-development plans, following on from the construction of The Point, AJ Bell Players and Media Centre and the redevelopment of the Pavilion.
The Hotel will have 150 bedrooms; 85 of which will be pitch facing, a restaurant, fitness centre and adjoining coffee shop, it cements Emirates Old Trafford as a truly world-class sporting, music and business destination.
The hotel replaces the Old Trafford Lodge, demolished in January 2016, and is due to be completed in the summer of 2017 in time for the Fourth Investec Test Match between England and South Africa, starting on Friday, August 4.
Barrington-Wood said, “I am absolutely thrilled to join the team at the Hilton Garden Inn at Emirates Old Trafford. I really feel very privileged to work at this amazing venue and it is incredibly exciting to have the chance to help launch this new hotel.
“I have settled in really well over the last week and the team here have been amazing. Nothing has been too much trouble for them and I look forward to an exciting few months leading up to the opening of the hotel.
“The potential for this hotel and venue is limitless. With international and domestic cricket, concerts and a growing conference and events business here at Emirates Old Trafford, this was an opportunity that was just too good to turn down.”
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Preston-based Vincents Solicitors has appointed senior solicitor Debora Harrison to its clinical negligence team within the firm’s personal injury department.
Harrison joins the company from Linder Myers in Lytham St Annes. Prior to that she was with Birchall Blackburn in Preston.
An experienced clinical negligence solicitor, Harrison handles cases involving surgical mistakes, GP or nurse errors, misdiagnosis or diagnosis delay, with fatal and life-changing outcomes.
During her career she has successfully secured settlements for clients and their families, including two of £1.5m and a number of six figure sums.
She said: “Clinical negligence is one of the most tragic areas of the law, where clients have been let down by the professionals in whom they placed their trust.
“Often their injuries are so life changing that only a significant settlement can allow them to get the on-going care and support they need and try to find a way to live with the physical and psychological effects of what has gone wrong, or to provide for the family they leave behind.”
