Appointments: Barclays; Stage One; Irwin Mitchell
THE Yorkshire corporate team of Barclays has appointed Rob Lawrence as a client acquisition director.
He joins the team from Lloyds and will be responsible for driving business across the region for larger corporates with turnover in excess of £25m.
Lawrence, who is a chartered accountant, qualified with Deloitte and then moved to PWC whilst working in the corporate recovery space. His banking career started in 1996 and has spanned various organisations. Barclays said he is currently ‘Corporate Banker of the Year’ for the region and has historically led transactions for notable names such as Amber Travel, Allied Glass, Andrew Page, Zenith and the Card Factory.
Lawrence said: “Barclays has a very strong platform in Yorkshire and a clear supportive approach to the corporate market. I am looking forward to enhancing this through increasing connectivity and focused relationship building to ensure that Yorkshire corporates can access the financial solutions they require to succeed.”
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STAGE One, the creative company which built the 2012 London Olympic Cauldron, has announced three new appointments to its senior management team.
Alan Ellis, Tim Leigh and Andy Smith join the business as performance director; client services director; and head of projects respectively.
CEO of the York-based firm, Mark Johnson, said: “The last two years have been fantastic for Stage One. The London 2012 Olympics firmly established us as world leaders in the design and manufacture of automated control systems for large scale public events.
“We were thrilled to receive a Queens Award for Enterprise earlier this year, in recognition of ten years of Continuous Innovation. And it’s great to be so busy now, working on contracts to deliver complex elements of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic ceremonies.
“However, we are keen to build on these fantastic foundations and do what we do even better and more competitively. Our aim is to respond to the call for our collaborative and innovative skills in new areas and develop partnerships that can bring ever more challenging ideas to life.
“In short, we want to become the world’s most creative construction and manufacturing company, and believe our three new colleagues will help us to do just that. We are delighted to welcome them to the team.”
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IRWIN Mitchell in Leeds has appointed partner Alex Newman from Squire Sanders to its intellectual property and information technology group.
The move, which is part of Irwin Mitchell’s continued drive to invest and significantly develop its litigation and commercial practices across the UK, follows the announcement that it has also appointed IP Partner, Georgie Collins, from Brown Rudnick. Newman marks the firm’s ninth lateral business partner hire since the beginning of 2013 and the 17th since the beginning of 2012.
Newman, who previously led Squire Sanders’ intellectual property practice in the North of England, specialises in contentious IP work.
Newman, who will be joining the firm in early November, will be based at Irwin Mitchell’s Leeds offices on Wellington Place and will work alongside partner, Joanne Bone, who specialises in non-contentious areas of IP.
He said: “There are significant growth opportunities for the firm’s IP/IT practice across multiple sectors, and I look forward to working with the existing team and the firm’s senior management to drive the practice forwards while the wider firm continues to invest in its litigation and commercial offerings.”
