People: Law firm adds to court of protection team; Lender announces triple hire; and more

Irwin Mitchell hired Libby Hanson as a solicitor at its Leeds office, joining the Court of Protction team.

After graduating in 2013 from BPP University Law School, Hanson joined Gordons in Leeds in 2013 as a private client paralegal before qualifying as a solicitor in 2016.

Prior to her joining Irwin Mitchell, she spent a year focusing on volunteer work, becoming appointed the patient and public voice representative for the hand transplant team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Currently, this is the only NHS Trust that conducts pioneering hand transplants.

Hanson said: “I’m excited to join such a dynamic and leading law firm which puts the care of its clients first. Irwin Mitchell’s focus on delivering the highest standard of client care and unparalleled service is what attracted me to the firm.

“Court of Protection work is very specialist and requires a sensitive touch as you are assisting vulnerable people day in day out, and I am delighted to be a part of a team that is highly respected in this field.

“I look forward to providing our clients with that support and working tirelessly to deliver for them.”

Elizabeth Perry, a partner and head of Irwin Mitchell’s Court of Protection team in Leeds, said: “We are delighted to welcome Libby to Irwin Mitchell. We are always striving to add significantly to the breadth and depth of our team in Leeds, and we believe we have successfully done this with the appointment of Libby.”

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Peer-to-peer lender Assetz Capital has appointed three new starters to increase deal flow in the North West and South Yorkshire region.

Karl Kent joins from Lloyds Bank, where he spent two years working as a relationship director as part of the wider East Midlands and South Yorkshire real estate team. This followed a 20-year spell at RBS in a similar role, supporting existing and new clients in the property sector. Working as a remote relationship director, he will take ownership of the South Yorkshire region.

Jason Roper also joins Assetz Capital as a welationship director for the North West region. Prior to this, Roper worked at Royal Bank of Scotland for 19 years as a Relationship Director in the Manchester-based Real Estate Finance team. He provided commercial, residential and development finance to new and existing customers in the property finance space.

In their new roles, the relationship directors will be responsible for dealing with finance requests from SMEs and constructing facilities that meet the needs of potential clients.

In addition, David Hardman has taken on the role of Credit Manager, and will be responsible for credit sanctioning. He previously spent 35 years at Natwest/RBS, where he took on various roles including credit manager in Manchester and Leeds, as well as a relationship director on the Real Estate Finance team.

Stuart Law, CEO at Assetz Capital, said: “These appointments follow another hugely successful year in 2017 as we continue to grow strongly. We continue to attract highly experienced team members to handle the high level of enquiries that our competitive offering is generating. With companies across the country increasingly looking at peer-to-peer as a viable funding solution, we continue to strengthen our team with the appointments of Relationship Directors in the wider regions as well as continue to grow our credit team.”