Law firm announces new department heads and key promotions
Law firm Lodders has appointed new partner heads for its company commercial and real estate teams, a new equity partner and two associate promotions.
Partner Kim Klahn will lead the company and commercial team in Stratford upon Avon, while commercial and residential property and land development specialist and partner, Mark Miller, is appointed head of Lodders’ real estate team.
James Mottram, a residential development specialist, is promoted to equity partner after three years with Lodders’ real estate practice.
Klahn is a company and commercial law specialist, and trained and qualified at Lodders. She became a partner in the business group in 2015, and specialises in advising on a range of company and commercial matters.
She takes over as team head in Lodders’ Stratford office from Victor Matts, who has been with Lodders since 1990 and led the firm’s business group for more than 20 years. He will continue as a partner at the firm.
Miller joined Lodders as an equity partner in 2016. Known for his niche specialism in strategic land work in particular, he acts for landowners, developers, investors and end users including large national and multinational organisations.
He will head the real estate practice with support from Paul Mourton – Lodders’ managing partner – Nick East and James Mottram.
The team, has thirty specialist real estate, commercial property, planning, construction and highways legal experts, including nine partners, operating from Lodders Stratford upon Avon, Cheltenham and Birmingham offices.
Mottram joined Lodders in 2015 from Gateley in Birmingham and became a partner six months later. He specialises in residential development work and has acted for many of the top 10 UK house builders and now works with many of the country’s largest and most active housebuilders.
Meanwhile,Cheryl Payne and Laura Taylor of Lodders’ real estate plot sales team have been promoted to associate.
Senior partner Martin Green, says: “These promotions are a clear sign of Lodders’ commitment to its future and our robust succession plan that embraces the next generation of young talent at the firm. Each of these promotions demonstrates the firm’s vision and ambitions to maintain our position as a premiere law firm of choice in the region.”
