Appointments: Mills & Reeve; Icelolly.com; JCT600 Contracts
NATIONAL law firm Mills & Reeve has announced Justin Ripman as new senior partner and Claire Clarke as new managing partner.
Ripman and Clarke who have served on the Mills & Reeve board since June 2012, will officially take over from Mark Jeffries and Guy Hinchley respectively on June 1 2015. Clarke is the first female managing partner at Mills & Reeve.
Ripman joined Mills & Reeve in 1991 and is a private tax and landed estates expert. He has previously headed-up the firm’s private tax team and has been a key player in building private client work as a core sector at Mills & Reeve.
Clarke joined Mills & Reeve in 1996 and has been a partner since 1999. A corporate lawyer focusing on education and business clients, she is also leader of the firm’s corporate and commercial services division.
Hinchley will remain a partner, working on a number of projects to provide the wider management team with the benefit of the many skills and experience which he has acquired over the last eight years as managing partner. This will include progressing the delivery of the firm’s growth plans in Leeds and Manchester. Jeffries, who has been with Mills & Reeve for 35 years and was also managing partner from 2001-2007, will also continue with the firm as a consultant, which will include work in the health sector and on client care and development programmes.
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HOLIDAY comparison website Icelolly.com has announced that Andrew Latham is to become its chief executive.
Latham has been appointed following a successful six-month interim role that has seen him have a significant impact on the business and its operations.
Latham said: “We have made a great deal of progress recently at Icelolly.com and I very much look forward to continue working with our fantastic team and portfolio of leading independent travel agents. Together we will keep delivering great holiday offers to the tens of millions of people who visit our site annually to compare deals and find their perfect holiday. We are confident that our plans will deliver great success going forward.”
Palatine Private Equity backed Icelolly.com in a £17m management buyout in September 2013. Partner Andy Lees and investment director Beth Houghton led the deal and both joined the company’s board as non-executive directors.
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PAUL Walters has been appointed sales director of JCT600 Contracts, the specialist leasing and fleet management division of Yorkshire-based motor firm JCT600.
With over 24 years’ experience in the vehicle leasing industry, Walters joins from GE Capital EMEA, Fleet Services, where he has spent the majority of his career. His roles include eight years as pan European strategic accounts manager; and, latterly, nine years as pan European strategic accounts director, managing 14 European customers with a combined vehicle fleet in excess of 50,000.
Andrew Mann, managing director of JCT600 contracts, said: “Paul is a welcome addition to the team; he is vastly experienced and will bring a new dimension to the progress of our company. Having celebrated our 25th anniversary last year, JCT600 Contracts is continuing to go from strength to strength and it is vital that we keep investing in new talent in order to ensure we are able to provide the best service and value to our customers in a very competitive sector.”
