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Yorkshire law firm Lupton Fawcett has appointed dispute resolution lawyer Simon Lockley as head of its Sheffield office.
He succeeds corporate lawyer Michele Phillips as the lead partner and will take responsibility for a growing team of specialist lawyers delivering commercial and private client services to the Sheffield City Region.
Lockley has worked with clients in Sheffield for more than 25 years and became head of the Sheffield dispute resolution team in 2013.
He has wide-ranging experience representing both individuals and organisations in high value litigation cases and a reputation as a robust and highly commercial litigator.
Lupton Fawcett’s Sheffield team has recently been boosted by the arrival of a number of key individuals, including commercial property partner Claire Mayfield-Tulip and private client senior solicitor Charlene Vilia.
The firm’s employment team has also been strengthened with the arrivals of experienced partner Glenn Jaques and solicitor Sabrina Rahman.
Lockley said: “I am looking forward to leading the Sheffield team. Having spent my career in the city, the investment we have made in new talent is incredibly exciting.
“It is also a clear demonstration of our commitment to growing our ability to deliver quality legal services to clients in the Sheffield City Region.”
James Richardson, managing partner, said: “I have known Simon for more than 30 years since he walked through the door as a new articled clerk at Dibb Lupton Broomhead.
“Under his leadership the Sheffield dispute resolution team has consistently been one of the strongest performing departments in the firm and I am delighted to congratulate him on his appointment as head of our Sheffield office.”
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L-R: CMS partners Carl Dray, Tim Riordan and Greg Woods.
Woods, who was named a “Recommended Lawyer” by The Legal 500 and is a member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers has significant experience advising large corporate clients and insurers in relation to the investigation and defence of personal injury claims.
Riordan advises corporates and insurers on complex high value reputational claims as well as bulk claims. He has an expertise in costs and claims handling processes and has been involved in test cases around noise induced hearing loss, vicarious liability, fixed portal costs avoidance and qualified one way cost shifting.
Carl Dray, CMS partner in the Insurance and Reinsurance group, said: “Last year, CMS celebrated its 30th anniversary in Sheffield and the firm remains deeply committed to the North of England, evidenced by our pending move to wonderful new state-of-the-art offices in the Heart of the City development in Sheffield. Greg’s appointment, along with the promotion of Tim, invigorates our partner ranks in Sheffield, and we are excited to welcome him to the firm. The breadth and depth of Greg’s experience complements our existing offering, increases our capacity to work with insureds, insures and brokers as business partners, and to mitigate risk when meeting the challenges of a post pandemic world.”
Woods and Riordanwill work closely together to support clients and their appointments further strengthen the firm’s overall dispute resolution offering in the North of England.
CMS Defendant Personal Injury team in Sheffield has also been strengthen by the hiring of Emily Whitehead as a senior associate. Emily joins CMS from DAC Beachcroft.
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Private equity investor Endless LLP has confirmed a further seven promotions across its offices in, Leeds, London and Manchester following the recent announcement of four new partners.
The promotions include Adam Milner to portfolio director at Enact alongside Leeds office colleagues David Isaacs , Stefan Nowakowski , Isabella Costoya-May who are promoted to investment director, investment director and executive assistant respectively.
Garry Wilson, managing partner, said: “We’re delighted to be able to congratulate David, Stefan, Adam and Isabella on their well deserved promotions.
“These are great milestones in their careers and reflects their fantastic contribution to our business.”
These promotions alongside the promotions in Manchester and London follow a year of significant deal activity for Endless, which included investments into Hovis, and Amscan International, an international market leader in party products.
Most recently Endless completed its first investment from £400m Endless Fund V with the acquisition of Findel Education, a leading e-commerce specialist in educational resources.
Enact, the SME fund investing Enact Fund II of £30m, was similarly busy and completed the acquisitions of Realise, an apprenticeship provider, Evolutions, a TV post-production business, Bartoline, a heritage manufacturer of decorating products, and most recently the acquisition of Edbro, a manufacturer of hydraulic cylinders based in Bolton.
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Irwin Mitchell has appointed two new associates to support the success of its West Yorkshire team and contribute to the firm’s post-pandemic growth plans for the region.
Based in the company’s Leeds office, Gillian Kaufman joins as a senior associate solicitor in the Restructuring & Insolvency team and Kathryn Pitters has been appointed as a barrister–associate in the firm’s Regulatory Investigations Group.
With a career spanning 25 years, Kaufman is an expert in the full range of contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters and advises insolvency practitioners, corporate and individual clients.
She is experienced in formal insolvency procedures and informal restructuring, turnaround, refinancing arrangements and advising distressed businesses.
She also has specific expertise in international debt recovery work recovering UK debt for international clients.
Joining the firm’s Regulatory Investigations Group headed by Jason Newall, Pitters is an expert in professional discipline and healthcare regulatory work.
She arrives from Capsticks LLP, where she assisted with the establishment of the new specialist regulator, Social Work England.
Over the last 15 years, she has been a member of Charter Chambers in London, with significant experience of financial regulatory and professional discipline work.
The latest appointments follow Leeds-based banking and finance partner Paddy Sturman joining the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Yorkshire and Humber Council earlier this year.
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Multitask Personnel has added a new permanent recruitment manager to its team following the appointment of Laura Thompson, who joins to lead the Professional division at the specialist recruitment consultancy.
Thompson, who brings over seven years’ experience as a recruitment consultant, senior manager and branch manager, has a background in engineering and construction, two key sectors that Rotherham-based Multitask operate in.
Her key focus is to provide effective recruitment solutions to help existing clients on current vacancies, as well as bringing in new business across a wide range of market sectors that require professional expertise.
Thompson said: “I’m delighted to join Multitask Personnel to lead and develop the professional division alongside the fantastic team already in place.
“After starting out as a resourcer in an ‘any and every’ recruitment environment, I’ve been able to make professional and technical recruitment my home over the past few years.
“My focus will be on working with management and specialist white collar and operations support professionals including, contracts managers, quantity surveyors, project managers, health and safety managers, estimators and HR managers across our specialist sectors such as Construction, Building Services, Environmental and Mechanical and Electrical.
“Understanding my clients and candidates has always been one of my priorities, so building that relationship to understand their requirements is key to making this role a success. Multitask is a great fit for my experience and future ambitions.”
Claire Lee, managing director, said: “As the business community continues to pull together and navigate itself out of the pandemic, we’re finding the requirement for professional management is increasing once again.
“We therefore feel now is the perfect time to strengthen our professional desk with the appointment of Laura, who has all the skills and attributes to hit the ground running looking after a number of our key accounts and developing the division further.
“We would like to wish Laura a warm welcome to the team, and remind our clients our professional recruitment services are still very much part of our future plans here at Multitask Personnel.”
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Leeds-based independent, integrated agency CreativeRace has appointed Tim Donald as executive creative director, further strengthening its team following a number of key hires over the past six months.
Formerly of Social Chain, Donald has extensive experience across a number of major London agencies including Mother and VCCP.
He has worked with high-profile brands including Beats by Dre, KFC, Johnnie Walker, Nike and Sonos.
He has also been at key agencies Anyways and 101 London, and his work includes the Arla Protein ‘20 for 20 Challenge’, GAME ‘Gamerclaus’ Christmas campaign and Johnnie Walker ‘The Man Who Walked Around the World’ feature documentary.
Rob Shaw, CEO at CreativeRace, said: “We’re delighted to continue to deliver on our commitment to recruit the very best talent and combine them into the fully integrated offering at CreativeRace.
“Tim’s breadth of experience from design and advertising to digital and social will enhance our already leading creative outputs across a full-service offering.”
Donald said: “I’m really excited to be joining an agency with such an amazing pedigree. CreativeRace are incredibly ambitious and really focused on building something truly unique, so I’m looking forward to being part of that journey.”
