People: Advisory firm launches Birmingham hub with Mazars hire; Senior appointment and five promotions at DWF; and more
Alison White has joined the specialist not-for-profit team at accountants and business advisors Beever and Struthers as a senior manager from Mazars.
She will join colleagues at the firm’s new Birmingham hub in The Colmore Building in Birmingham.
This is the first hub opened by Beever and Struthers, offering staff a flexible alternative to travelling to the existing offices in Manchester, London or Blackburn.
White is the latest of several senior appointments to the Beever and Struthers’ NFP team, including internal audit director Narinder Sandher and audit partner Lee Cartwright.
Maria Hallows, executive partner and head of social housing at Beever and Struthers, said: “Our appointment of Alison and our wider recruitment drive prove our commitment to identifying and nurturing talent and having the highest ambitions for our staff and our clients.
“We seized the chance to open in Birmingham, allowing us to provide our Midlands’ based team with the flexibility of a hub from which to work and serve clients.”
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The Birmingham office of DWF has announced the appointment of John Campion as corporate partner and the promotion of five employees.
Campion is a highly experienced corporate lawyer with a track record of many cross-border complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers and equity capital market transactions.
He joins DWF from DLA Piper in Birmingham where he was a corporate partner. Prior to DLA Piper, John had a short stint at Shoosmiths. He began his career at Allen & Overy in London, where he trained and spent seven years in the corporate team.
The business has also announced the promotion of five employees in the Birmingham office. Natalie Osadciw-Louth has been promoted to senior associate; Samantha Chambers and Simon Naylor have been promoted to associate; Jade Hollingworth has been promoted to lead paralegal and Lauren Goode to paralegal.
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A Shropshire law firm has expanded its commercial property team as demand grows across all of its offices – from Oswestry and Telford to Ludlow and beyond.
Clarissa Pritchard is the latest commercial property specialist to join Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors, based at the firm’s head office in Shrewsbury.
She joins the firm from a global multinational law firm in Birmingham where she acted for some national housebuilders, assisting with negotiating and completing conditional and unconditional contracts, option agreements, and other real estate and infrastructure matters.
Praveen Chaudhari, head of commercial property at Lanyon Bowdler, said: “We saw increased levels of activity across all of our offices during last year and with more certainty in the political landscape, it’s likely that businesses will have greater confidence to push ahead with expansion plans during this year.
“Every office has been busy – Shrewsbury, Telford, Oswestry, Ludlow, North Wales and into Herefordshire – the commercial property market is doing well.
“We have worked on numerous new housing developments across Shropshire and Herefordshire. Agricultural property has also been very strong, and we have been assisting with a lot of landlord and tenant legal work.
“It’s likely that we will be looking to recruit across all offices during 2020 to keep up with demand, which just shows how active the property market has been.”
