People: Honey; Tyr; Minster Law; and more
Housebuilder Honey has made three new appointments to complete the senior management team for its Central regional office in Sheffield to support the delivery of its ongoing expansion.
Dean Cutts and Richard Short have been recruited as technical director and commercial director respectively, while Nadine Trigg has joined as head of customer service.
With 28 years of experience within technical positions, Cutts joins Honey Central from residential developer Harron Homes.
His new role sees him head the region’s technical delivery, from house type and development design to supporting land, commercial and construction teams.
Short, who has 26 years’ experience in the housebuilding industry, joins from Avant Homes. At Honey, he is responsible for overseeing the commercial function of the Central region.
Trigg joins from residential developer Persimmon Homes and has more than 10 years’ experience in the property and housebuilder sectors.
She is responsible for Honey Central’s customer service output, including supporting and managing customer queries.
Since being launched in October 2022, Honey has secured 18 sites across Yorkshire and the Midlands that will deliver 2,250 homes and a combined gross development value of £609m.
The company is backed by private equity firm Alchemy Partners and its Alchemy Special Opportunities Fund IV which has £937m of fully committed capital.
In March this year, the business confirmed the launch of its two regional offices, Honey Yorkshire and Honey Central, following the appointment of Chris Coley as managing director.
Honey Central is based out of the housebuilder’s existing premises on Ecclesall Road in Sheffield.
Chief executive, Mark Mitchell, said: “We are in position to accelerate growth plans across our Central operating region through securing additional sites and providing more people with the opportunity to own a Honey home.
“The appointments of Dean, Richard and Nadine are integral to this. They bring a wealth of experience within their respective fields which will prove invaluable as part of our expansion strategy.
“I am very pleased to welcome all three of them to Honey and look forward to working with them to build on the momentum we have already gathered across South Yorkshire and the Midlands.”
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Leeds-based commercial law firm, Tyr, has grown its Business Restructuring & Insolvency team with the recruitment of senior associate, Rebecca Dods, supporting Alistair McHenry and Ashley Jaques.
Dods joins following a successful trajectory at Walker Morris from paralegal through to senior associate; a role she retains at Tyr.
Specialising in a range of corporate and personal insolvency litigation work, she manages high value complex disputes acting for office holders, litigation funders and directors of insolvent companies in bringing and defending claims and dealing with any subsequent litigation.
She was elected as chair of the R3 Yorkshire New Professionals Committee in July 2022 and organises social events and technical seminars for insolvency new professionals in the region.
The Sports team will also benefit from Dods’ recruitment with her supporting on all aspects of Tyr’s growing sports specialism in contentious integrity, regulatory and general dispute work.
McHenry, partner, said: “Rebecca is an exceptional recruit for Tyr. She already has a growing reputation in the market for the excellence of her all-round insolvency work but has the application, versatility and skill set to establish a similarly strong reputation in sport.”
Dods added: “I am happy to be joining Tyr and to be supporting the growing Insolvency and Sport practices at the firm.
“I am super excited to get involved in a wide range of litigation work at Tyr and to work alongside exceptional lawyers at the firm.”
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Stuart Hanley has been promoted to director of legal practice at Wakefield-based Minster Law.
His new role is effectively immediately and he will report to CEO Shirley Woolham.
Woolham said his promotion comes after the successful conclusion to Minster Law’s transformation programme, with the business projecting a return to profit this year and ready to capitalise on a market sector that has emerged from a long period of reform.
She added: “We are in exceptional shape to assist insurer partners achieve great outcomes for their injured customers and Stuart will play a pivotal role in helping them get to grips with the legislative and regulatory environment where together we operate.
“His legal expertise will be a critical asset in giving our partners the insight they need to plan for the future, especially with further reform on the agenda and the increasing scrutiny around Consumer Duty.
“In bringing an additional dimension to assessing and interpreting the impact of regulatory and legislative changes on their businesses, he will help partners de-risk their regulatory exposure with the claims supply chain.”
Hanley will head Minster Law’s collaboration with trade bodies, including ACSO and APIL, industry stakeholders such as the Ministry of Justice and the MIB, as well as playing an increased role in engagement with the media, business partners and other relevant parties.
He said: “It’s an honour to be able to take up this expanded role for Minster Law. I’m tremendously proud of being a personal injury lawyer and of working for a business that is so dedicated to the work they do to help injured people and their families.
“We really do have a privileged role, which can make a real difference in people’s lives. I’m looking forward to re-establishing and demonstrating the value of legal expertise in volume claims to the market.
“I believe our ability to marry this legal expertise with an efficient and outcome-driven claims process marks Minster Law out from our competitors, and bringing this approach to the claims industry will be a key factor in achieving our longer-term strategic aims.”
Hanley has been a claimant personal injury and clinical negligence solicitor for over 30 years, dealing with a wide variety of claims.
He was previously a member of the SRA/Law Society Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Panels and the AvMA Clinical Negligence Panel. He has been part of the Minster Law team since 2012.
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Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest and leading ports operator, has appointed Andrew Dawes to the position of regional director, Humber to succeed Simon Bird when he leaves ABP at the end of October.
Dawes will be part of the Executive team and will report directly to Henrik L Pedersen, ABP’s CEO.
Dawes began work at the Southampton Container Terminal and has progressed his career to become a seasoned maritime executive, amassing almost 30 years of experience from the global ports and terminals industry with companies such as DP World, APM Terminals and ICTSI.
He brings with him a wealth of experience in safety, operations and commercial activities. His experience also includes managing director roles with P&L accountability for terminals plus wider regional portfolio responsibility.
Dawes said: “This is an incredible time to be joining ABP as the next five-year business strategy is launched.
“I am pleased to be joining the Humber Region which has some really exciting projects and growth opportunities.
“The Humber plays a key role in delivering ABP’s twin missions of Keeping Britain Trading as well as Enabling the Energy Transition here in the UK.
“I am very much looking forward to meeting and working with my Humber colleagues, customers and wider stakeholders and to bringing my family to live in this fantastic region.”
Pedersen said: “We’re happy that someone with Andrew’s breadth and depth of port sector experience has chosen to join us.
“ABP’s four Humber ports collectively provide the UK’s largest gateway for trade with the world and are the corner stone of the Humber area’s potential as the UK’s preeminent ‘super cluster’ for the energy transition and industrial decarbonisation.
“Continuing to grow our Humber activities and delivering major infrastructure projects will be key to ABP achieving its twin missions of “Keeping Britain Trading” and “Enabling the Energy Transition”, building on the strong foundations laid down by Simon Bird during his tenure as regional director.”
Dawes will join ABP on 1 October 2024, allowing a period of handover with Bird, who will be stepping down from the role at the end of the month.
ABP operates four ports on the Humber estuary – Immingham, Grimsby, Hull and Goole – and is the Statutory Harbour Authority for the whole estuary.
