Appointments: Exchange Chambers; BCL Legal; Lloyds; ITM Power
EXCHANGE Chambers has continued its expansion in Leeds by welcoming former solicitor Steven Fennell as a new member.
Fennell qualified as a solicitor in 1996, as an insolvency practitioner in 1999, and a solicitor advocate in 2013. He has now transferred to the Bar having most recently been in private practice at Kennedys.
His practice focuses on commercial, financial and insolvency litigation and professional negligence and regulatory matters for the legal and accountancy professions. He has acted for a wide variety of clients, including financial institutions, accountants and insolvency practitioners, solicitors, government departments, directors and shareholders.
He said: “It’s been a long standing ambition of mine to pursue a career at the Bar and Exchange Chambers is a truly first rate Set.
“I am looking forward to developing and expanding my commercial and financial litigation practice.”
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LEGAL recruitment consultancy BCL Legal is continuing its growth after appointing Annette Hinchcliff as a senior associate in its Yorkshire and North East team.
Hinchcliff will be recruiting solicitors, paralegals and legal executives into law firms across Leeds and the rest of Yorkshire. She started her career within legal recruitment in 1999 after qualifying as a solicitor and joins Leeds-basedBCL Legal from Selection Group.
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LLOYDS Bank Commercial Banking has bolstered its presence in Yorkshire by appointing Ralph Edwards to the role of relationship director.
Edwards will be joining the Lloyds Bank team at its Leeds headquarters. He will look after clients based in the North and West Yorkshire areas with turnovers in excess of £100m, offering financial guidance and direction to support growth.
He moves to Lloyds Bank from Barclays, where he was a relationship director responsible for a portfolio of clients with turnovers of up to £400m. Prior to that, he spent four years developing specialist expertise as associate director for Barclays Corporate leveraged finance, overseeing all aspects of corporate leveraged deals for transactions typically valued at between £10m and £300m.
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YORKSHIRE energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power has announced the appointment of Sir Roger Bone as a non-executive director.
Sir Roger has been president of Boeing UK since September 2005. He is a non-executive director of F&C Investment Trust and a non-executive director and Trustee of the National Centre for Universities and Business. Sir Roger is also one of the Prime Minister’s honorary UKTI ambassadors for British Business.
He previously had a career in the British Diplomatic Service. He was Ambassador to Brazil from 1999 to 2004 and to Sweden from 1995 to 1999. He was an assistant under secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1991 to 1995, and at earlier stages in his career served in Moscow, Brussels and Washington.
Professor Roger Putnam, chairman of Sheffield-based ITM, said: “I am extremely pleased to welcome Roger to the board of ITM Power. He brings a broad wealth of experience to the team which is already one of the strongest in the sector as is demonstrated by the way the company has driven hydrogen fuelling and energy storage into global markets.”
Sir Roger, a graduate of Oxford University, a former Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and also a Trustee of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), added: “I am very excited to join this highly innovative company, and look forward to working with it as it grows its business footprint and expands into new markets.”
