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• Penningtons Solicitors LLP has announced three new partners. Three associates within the firm – Saionton Basu (corporate and India groups), Pat Saini (immigration) and Mike Busby (commercial property) have been invited to join the partnership bringing the total number of partners at the firm to 71. Basu jointly heads Penningtons' India group with Rustam Dubash. He is an experienced mergers, acquisitions and projects lawyer with a particular focus on cross-border transactions as well as projects focusing on Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Saini manages the case work team within Penningtons' market leading immigration practice. She has over 15 years of experience practising in immigration and nationality law and currently advises education and corporate clients on sponsor compliance matters. She acts for Tier 4 sponsors in relation to UKBA changes, HTS applications and the immigration aspects of joint ventures, and often liaises with senior UKBA officials on behalf of clients to ensure that their proposed business plans meet UKBA requirements. Busby, who originally joined Penningtons as a trainee and now works out of the firm’s newly opened Guildford office, acts for a wide range of organisations across the commercial property spectrum, specialising in landlord and tenant issues. He regularly advises on sales and purchases of all types of developments and is part of the firm’s hotels and leisure sector group. The appointments come in the same week Penningtons has confirmed turnover for 2011-12 has exceeded £32.3 million, an increase of nearly 35% over the previous financial year's £24m.
• Jelf Employee Benefits has appointed Ronjit Bose as its commercial director. Bose joined Jelf in April having previously held the position of head of healthcare at Standard Life at the time of their acquisition by PruHealth. He also has experience in pensions, flexible benefits and international PMI and has held senior marketing positions. Bose will take responsibility for leading Jelf Employee Benefit’s marketing, proposition development, lead generation and telemarketing activities. He will be a member of the Jelf Employee Benefits senior management board and as part of the management team contribute to the development of the employee benefits strategy. He will report to the managing director Glenn Thomas.
• Clifton Ingram LLP, the Thames Valley law firm, has announced the appointment of John Barker as a partner in its corporate services department. He will be based in the firm’s growing Reading office. Barker brings with him over 20 years’ experience in advising businesses, banks and investors on a wide range of loan and finance arrangements. As part of Clifton Ingram’s corporate services team, Barker will work on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters including M&A transactions, property and equity funding/ investments, shareholder agreements and consumer credit issues, in addition to his finance practice. Trained at a City firm, Barker was previously a partner at both Boyes Turner and Osborne Clarke in Reading, and is ranked as leading individual in the Thames Valley region in both The Legal 500 and Chambers directories.
• Ruth Corkin, head of VAT services at Thames Valley and south coast accountants and business advisers James Cowper, has joined the Joint VAT Consultative Committee (JVCC).The addition of this new role is further testimony to Corkin’s skills after she was elected chairwoman of the VAT Practitioners Group (VPG) National Technical Committee last autumn. Corkin attended her second meeting mid-April. Hot topics included the consultations on the VAT anomalies announced in the Budget – the so-called 'pasty tax' – and the tax on alterations to churches and other listed buildings. First established in 1990 and designed to be a platform to discuss the operation of VAT policy and law, the JVCC comprises senior HMRC policy unit staff and representatives from trade and professional organisations. It also presents an opportunity for feedback on changes in the department at a national level.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – MAY 2012
• High Wycombe-based chartered accountants The Fish Partnership have made a new appointment to management accounts department. Marion Ive has extensive experience in the book-keeping and management accounting field, having worked for many types of businesses including manufacturing, distribution, retail and service industries. She has worked for many years in an accountancy practice, where she had her own portfolio, while being experienced in using numerous software packages including Sage, QuickBooks, Access Accounts and Excel. Ive said: “I’m pleased to be joining such a forward thinking and dynamic firm of accountants.
• London Oxford Airport has appointed Tony Farmer to a new role as head of sales and route development. Farmer brings 30 years’ experience in commercial aviation to the airport’s management team, having worked in sales and marketing with a variety of airlines, including Saudi Airlines in London, for whom he served for 10 years steering the airline’s marketing strategy in the UK. He also held a similar role with South African Airways and was UK manager for Hellenic Imperial Airways, based out of Birmingham Airport. Most recently, Farmer was a key appointee at two year old VIP Avro RJ business jet operator Cello Aviation, where he served as sales and marketing manager.
www.businessmag.co.uk
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