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• Sean Farrell, director of business development at the vehicle management division of the Leasedrive Group, the UK’s largest independent privately-owned vehicle management group,
has been appointed to the operating
board.partnerships. Farrell joined the Leasedrive Group in November 2003 from Travelex Global and Financial Services, where he was partnership development director. Earlier, he spent eight years at Arval PHH Vehicle Solutions, first as an area sales manager and then as group account director. Previously, he held a number of sales positions with Pallas Rentals (SG Warburg), Barclays Mercantile Credit Company and Mastercard, having served as a senior commercial apprentice at British Aerospace.
• Dr Rami Ranger, chairman of Sun Mark, has been awarded the coveted Export Champion of Britain Award for 2013 by the Growing Business Awards at a ceremony held at the London Marriot Hotel. The Growing Business Awards, supported by the CBI and in association with Lloyds Bank, highlights the nation's most exciting and innovative businesses of all sizes and sectors. Sun Mark itself has connected Britain through trade with over 110 countries and the business is still growing.
• James Simpson has been appointed to the employment team at Blake Lapthorn as partner. Based at the Oxford office, he joins from Henmans Freeth where he was head of employment. An employment lawyer with 20 years’ experience, Simpson represents a strong addition to the employment team bringing with him a great deal of expertise in all aspects of employment law, including the more complex aspects of executive hiring and TUPE, and advising on HR projects, employment-related disputes and good HR practice. His practice covers international business, institutions, SMEs, entrepreneurs and senior director/managers. Simpson qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and has spent most of his practice in the South East and Thames Valley, working for significant regional firms. In addition, charities solicitor Liz Brownsell and succession and tax solicitor Alison Craggs have been promoted to associate. From the London office, banking and finance solicitor Chris Knott, professional regulatory solicitor Venessa Holt and commercial litigation solicitor Alex Shirtcliff have all been promoted to associate. Senior law costs draftsman Neil Sexton and succession and tax solicitor Gavin Holt have been promoted to senior executive.
• Judith Rountree, solicitor in the dispute resolution team at Gardner Leader, has been crowned Young Lawyer of the Year at this year's LawNetawards, the national industry body and standard for independent law firms. The Young Lawyer of the Year award category was open to solicitors with less than five years' post-qualification experience. Aged 30 with four years post qualification experience, Rountree was chosen as winner because of her determination to succeed and advanced legal skills - qualities that have helped her to win complex, contentious probate cases. Since joining Gardner Leader in September
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• Thames Valley accountant Robert Holland took to the Thames last month having been given the prestigious role of rowing the Lord Mayor of London into the City on the state barge Gloriana, starting the annual Lord Mayor’s show. Holland is a partner at Thames Valley accountants and business advisers James Cowper and a member of the Wax Chandler’s Guild. For the past three years he has been part of a team that escorted the Lord Mayor into the City to the Mansion House.
• Charles Brooks, corporate partner at Penningtons Manches LLP’s Basingstoke office, has been elected as the new chairman of Multilaw, one of the world’s largest associations of independent law firms with 8,000 lawyers in 79 member firms in 68 countries. Currently a member of the Executive Council and the Finance Committee and chair of the Commission for the Future, Brooks took over his two-year role as chairman from Mark Lowndes of New Zealand firm, Lowndes Associates, at the Multilaw Annual Conference and AGM held in Buenos Aires, in October. Brooks specialises in advising on corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, MBOs, private equity, joint ventures, reorganisations and start-ups and has a particular interest in legal and business structures. He qualified as a French avocat à la cour at the Paris Bar in 1993 and set up and headed the Penningtons Paris office between 1989 and 1994. Penningtons Manches has played an active role in Multilaw since it was set up in 1990. Partners Jon Heuvel and Saionton Basu are the leaders of the Labour & Employment and India Groups respectively.
2009, Rountree has developed a new fixed-fee programme to help landlords and tenants involved in property litigation. Meanwhile, her work in the charity sector has seen her attract and retain some of the largest charity clients the firm has ever represented.
• Buckinghamshire New University has awarded three new professorships and four readerships to a distinguished group of inspiring academic colleagues. Professorships have been awarded to Margaret Greenfields, Gloria Moss and Alison Shreeve, while the new readers are Elaine Arnull, Neil Brownsword, Helena Chance and Ken Smith. The promotions to professor and reader are in recognition of outstanding contributions to Bucks New University. The promotions are made following candidates’ successful demonstration of meeting the University’s agreed criteria in the areas of research and scholarship, peer esteem, funding and leadership. Professorships are exceptional appointments, made to recognise individual excellence either in teaching, research or knowledge transfer, and readerships are awarded to employees who have made significant contributions arising from research or research-related activities.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – DECEMBER13/JANUARY14
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