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• Barclays Corporate has appointed Anthony Donohue as its new corporate director for the Dorset and Solent area. He will be responsible for heading up the Barclays Corporate medium business team of 20 based at the firm’s offices at County Gates, Bournemouth and Ocean Village, Southampton. (For more information see page 28.)
• A 35% increase in road traffic accident (RTA) claims has allowed Moore Blatch Resolve to recruit five new team members who will be based at the firm’s Southampton office. Aaron Fruen (pictured fifth from left), Charlotte Ward (second) and Natasha Rowland (first) will join the pre-issue litigation team as executives. Tara Hills (sixth), who has six years’ experience dealing with routine and complex cases, will be joining the post-issue team. Maxine Ayriss is a litigation executive who has professional negligence experience; she moves from Moore Blatch to Moore Blatch Resolve and will work as part of the pre-issue RTA team. Caroline Browne (third) and Michelle Halsall (fourth), who have both worked within the RTA team for three years, have also been promoted to managers and will help to oversee the new team structure and hold supervisory roles. Lee Harris (far right) will manage the team.
• Wilkins Kennedy has made two new appointments, Paul Hopper as senior personal tax manager and Ian Harding as corporate tax manager in the Winchester and Romsey offices. Hopper, who joins from BDO in Southampton, specialises in identifying income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax planning opportunities for private clients.
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• PwC in Southampton is delighted to announce the promotion to director in the assurance practice of Jennie Candy (left) and Trevor Smith (middle). The Southampton office is also joined by director Teressa Compton (right) from PwC in London who will be leading the human resource services team for the office. Smith is experienced in working on a broad range of clients from smaller family-run businesses to large multinationals across a range of industries. Candy specialises in aerospace & defence clients as well as working on clients from large manufacturing companies to smaller owner-managed businesses. Compton specialises in expatriate tax consulting services to a large range of companies.
• The corporate, banking and commercial teams at law firm Paris Smith have been strengthened by the appointment of two new partners. Michael Moore has joined from Blake Lapthorn, while Crispin Dick, previously with Clifford Chance, has joined and taken over leadership of the commercial team. Moore specialises in public and private company mergers and acquisitions, private equity, bank finance and restructuring in a wide variety of market sectors. Dick advises both large international corporates and smaller owner-managed businesses, with experience covering a wide range of sectors. Experienced family mediators Neil Davies and Sarah Passemard, both partners at the firm, have been joined by associate Daniel Sanders.
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role he will manage a diverse portfolio of clients including high-net-worth individuals, non-domiciliaries, trusts and partnerships. Harding formerly worked for CW Fellowes.
• Blake Lapthorn has expanded its Southampton real estate team with the appointment of partner John Russell and a team of five solicitors. The expansion sees the firm’s real estate and social housing teams on the south coast join forces. Russell specialises in property development and is recognised by Chambers as a leader in the field of social housing development. The other team members comprise two senior solicitors, Marina Wickens and Lara Borrett-Lynch, and three solicitors, Christine Kessler- Robinson, Chris Carr and Daniel Kidson.
• Southampton-based Meridian Corporate Finance has recruited Joe Jeffers, bringing the team to nine. He joins from RSM Tenon where he had spent over four years in the corporate finance teams in Southampton and Reading. At Meridian, Jeffers will work closely with partners Mike Barcia and Darren Thompson on all aspects of the deal process from origination and project management to completion. He will also be involved with Meridian Growth Capital, assessing new opportunities and reviewing investment suitability.
• Grant Thornton has strengthened its team with the appointment of Kerry McKeown as tax director, the latest in a number of appointments to the tax team in the Southampton office. He joins from the London office of a large US restructuring firm, where he was a tax director, working to resolve UK and European tax issues following the collapse of a major global investment bank. Previously McKeown specialised in corporate tax, working with two of the Big Four firms. Stephen Mills, office managing partner of Grant Thornton’s Southampton office, said: “Kerry will be a huge asset to the team and, most importantly, to our clients.“
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