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• Leading Newbury and Thatcham-based law firm Gardner Leader has employed three paralegals as the business continues to grow. Claire Andrews (left), Elinor Clifford (right) and Kate Lewis (centre) will work closely with the firm's residential property, litigation and family teams respectively, to support the partners and solicitors in those teams. Gardner Leader is a leading law firm in the South East, and was listed last year in The Legal 500 UK as one of the most recommended firms in the South East for the fifth year running. First founded over 120 years ago, it offers a wide range of legal services to businesses and individuals.
Grass Roots Meetings & Events has appointed Hannah Wilkinson as client services director. Wilkinson previously held a senior role at Zibrant, where she was responsible for managing a team of account managers; overseeing and leading the development of pharmaceutical accounts; and the delivery of a key event – the Healthcare Meetings Forum. This appointment is the latest of several within the events businesses and the Grass Roots Group. Managing director Des Mclaughlin commented: “Hannah is highly regarded by all who have worked with her and has a proven record of success in everything she has done. She will play a pivotal role in bringing our account teams together and helping to cement our meetings and events business as
• Sarah Jelinek has been appointed as sales manager at Stoke Park. She joins from one of the finest hotel representation companies in the UK, GP Associates, where she has worked on the Stoke Park account for several years along with other UK five-star properties. Stoke Park sales director Joanne Scott said: "Sarah's experience in the five- star sector is invaluable."
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one, in line with our plans. We always aim to recruit the best in our industry and Hannah’s appointment fully reflects this." Wilkinson will join the board of Grass Roots Meetings & Events and divide her time between the Marlow, Fleet, Putney and Worcester offices, in addition to working with the wider Grass Roots Group teams overseas.
• Leading corporate and private client law firm Manches LLP is further expanding its Oxford office this month with the arrival of two qualified lawyers. Kathy Hills (right) joins the firm’s corporate team in Oxford as an associate and tax specialist with five years of post-qualification experience. Hills is an expert in UK and international tax and advises commercial clients on corporate tax, VAT, pensions, employment and SDLT property tax, as well as tax relief schemes and entrepreneur tax. She joins from Blake Lapthorn in Oxford and is well versed in all areas of business tax advice, including employee and director share-option schemes and complex cross- border international tax. Also joining the firm this month is one-year qualified lawyer Caroline Shephard (left), who joins the property team, also from Blake Lapthorn
in Oxford. Shephard joins as an associate and will be based at the Oxford office, working alongside experienced residential property lawyers Nick Owens and Amanda Lloyd, both of whom have extensive experience of working for clients in London and the UK. Managing partner of Manches Thames Valley Richard Smith commented: “It’s great to have recruited new people for the second time in just a few months. Kathy and Caroline join our growing Thames Valley practice, building on the previous recruitment of partner Simon Knott from Shoosmiths (real estate), senior associate Duncan Bain from Morgan Cole (employment and immigration) and senior associate Claire Clarke from Stevens & Bolton (family and matrimonial) who all joined in May.”
• Chartered tax adviser and chartered accountant Penny Bowen has been appointed by Shaw Gibbs LLP in Oxford to manage the personal tax team. In recent years Bowen has been honing her skills working with professionals in the dental sector assisting them with tax advisory services such as determination of the financial savings on building works, practice acquisition or disposal, and practice incorporation, as well as tax compliance. She has also specialised in assisting clients with questions about the NHS Pension Scheme. She trained as an accountant and qualified ACCA, and subsequently went on to work in the higher and further education sectors, running course programmes and lecturing in accountancy, tax, finance and management, having also qualified as lecturer. Her return to accountancy practice focused on the taxation of high-net- worth individuals, many of whom ran owner-managed businesses. Bowen is currently working towards the STEP Diploma in Trusts and Estates to enhance her skills.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – OCTOBER 2013
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