People: HOW Planning; Exchange Chambers; Zyme Communications

MANCHESTER-based HOW Planning has appointed Rosie Munton and Rachel May as graduate planners.

Munton joins from the University of Birmingham and May from Newcastle University. Both will work in HOW’s planning teams under the guidance of partners Jon Suckley and Richard Barton on a range of residential and mixed use projects.

HOW acts for a number of leading housebuilders including Taylor Wimpey, Redrow and Bloor Homes as well as commercial property clients such as Muse Developments, Barwood Developments and Liberty Property Trust UK.

Suckley said: “We are always looking to add new members to our team and welcome Rosie and Rachel as our latest graduate planners.  Rosie and Rachel  are valuable additions, and will support our planning teams in their work, ensuring we continue to deliver the highest standards of service to our clients in the North West and throughout the UK.”

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EXCHANGE Chambers has continued the expansion of its commercial department in Manchester by welcoming barrister James Malam as a tenant.

Malam, who was called to the Bar in 2002, joins Exchange Chambers from St John’s Buildings, where he has been a member since 2009.
 
Having completed his pupillage at 3 Stone Buildings in London, Malam joined Fishburns Solicitors, where he specialised in insurance, professional negligence and construction work. During 2007 he spent six months working as a Judicial Assistant to the Court of Appeal, where he was assistant to Lord Justice Carnwath.
 
Malam practices in most areas of commercial and commercial chancery law, with a particular emphasis on construction, professional negligence and insurance matters.

He is independently ranked by the legal directories where he is praised by The Legal 500 for his “sound grasp of the technicalities of a legal problem”.

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DR Maree Devine has joined public relations and marketing agency Zyme Communications’ Manchester office as senior account manager.

Devine has more than 16 years’ commercial experience in the biotech and pharma industries and has led strategic marketing, branding, communications and product launch campaigns as well as successful sales and business development programmes across Europe and the US.