People: Seven lawyer promotions at Clarion; Two senior hires at WSP; New MD at architects’ practice; and more

Seven lawyers at Leeds-based firm Clarion have been promoted.

Deborah Warren, Fiona Marr and Rachel Dean have all risen to the position of legal director; while Kayleigh Fantoni, Victoria Clark, Russell Stevens and Joanne Chase have become senior associates.

Roger Hutton, joint managing partner at Clarion, said: “While we are continuing to recruit the brightest talent, growing the team by 17% last year, it is vital that we also provide a supportive environment where people enjoy working.  A key part of this is enabling the team to develop their skills and grow their careers with us, and I’m very proud that so many of our lawyers are being recognised with these promotions.

“Well done to all of them, it is well-earned appreciation of their hard work and achievements for their clients and the firm.”

 

 

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Professional services and engineering consultancy, WSP, has recruited two senior hires to its 55-strong development team at the company’s White Rose Business Park office in Leeds.

Damian Meehan

Damian Meehan has been appointed as technical director, with more than 22 years’ experience in the industry specialising in the transport and highways discipline with expert knowledge of the logistics and distribution sector. He joins the team from his previous role as associate director at RPS Group PLC, where he led the highways and transport team from the company’s Newark office.

Meehan’s career highlights include advising and overseeing the relocation of mass media corporation, News Corp, and its businesses – 20th Century Fox, News UK, Dow Jones & Harper Collins – from their existing offices spread across London to a new headquarters at The News Building in London Bridge.

Meehan said: “There are a growing number of opportunities in the logistics and distribution sector, especially across the north and the midlands with international companies like Amazon planning to open new distribution centres across the region.

“I’m impressed with the strength and depth of talent within the Leeds office of WSP and look forward

Adrian Malone

to combining this with my expertise to help us to secure more business in these growing markets.”

Also joining WSP’s transport and infrastructure team is Adrian Malone, who has been appointed as head of digital

project delivery and BIM. Malone spent a decade with Atkins where he took on numerous roles including group head of knowledge management and collaboration.

 

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Yorkshire-based chartered architects’ practice Race Cottam Associates is restructuring its senior management team.

The new leadership at Race Cottam, which specialises in the health, schools, university, energy and waste sectors, will be spearheaded by director David Speddings, who succeeds company co-founder David Cottam as managing director.

Joining Speddings on the company’s new board of directors will be Laurie Cottam, who will take the lead in the company’s civic, public sector and commercial projects, and Pauline Lake, who is responsible for business development and specialises in the school sector.

The changes come on the back of a period of sustained growth for the practice, which was established in 1993. Recent projects include the University of York’s landmark International Pathway College, development of the UK’s first integrated cataract unit at Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital and the final commissioning of North Yorkshire’s Allerton Waste Recovery Park near Harrogate.

Speddings said: “It’s an honour for me personally to be succeeding David Cottam as managing director. Having spent such a large portion of my career at Race Cottam Associates, I’ve learnt an awful lot from David and owe him a great deal for helping shape my progression.

“I’m delighted to be joined on the new company board by Laurie and Pauline. Together, we will work to build on the solid foundations that David and Peter Race laid down almost 25 years ago – foundations which have seen the business grow from strength-to-strength.”

Co-founder Cottam, who as part of the new management structure will take on a more strategic role, said: “I’m very excited at the direction the business is heading following a period of sustained growth and success. “Race Cottam Associates is in safe hands. David Speddings and I have worked with Pauline and Laurie closely in the build-up to this announcement and are confident in their complementary abilities and their strong commitment to take the business forward into the next period of its development.

“This is part of a planned strategic transition for the business which we have been working on for three years – and although I will remain on the board for the foreseeable future I am, to use a well-known phrase, ‘handing over the reins’.”

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BWD, a specialist recruitment firm dedicated to the financial services industry, has announced three new appointments as part of their continued expansion plan.

Graeme Winn, Matilda Emerson and Bret Jackson have all joined the group. Winn has joined the Wealth Management division, specialising in the Financial Adviser market. Emerson will focus on the Investment Consulting sector, within the Pensions & Benefits team.

Jackson has joined BWD as Marketing and Communications Manager and will be working closely with the board to assist in growing the business, the brand and progressing into new markets within the Financial Services industry.

James Walker, director at BWD, said:  “Having three experienced individuals all join BWD at this exciting time for the group, is a real coup for BWD. The calibre of these appointments demonstrates our ambition and vision to really be the financial services recruiter of choice.”

 

 

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