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• Gerrards Cross-based law firm B P Collins LLP is celebrating a double success on the awards front this week. Rebecca Huxford, an associate solicitor in the family law team, has won top honours in the European Chapter Annual Award for young family lawyers. The essay competition, which was organised by the prestigious International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML), was open to lawyers across Europe and challenged them for their views on whether foreign law or national law should be applied by courts in Europe in the division of assets in family matters. Huxford’s powerful argument in favour of adopting the English approach of applying national law in all courts across Europe struck the right chord with the judges, and she won the top prize of €1,000 and an expenses paid trip to the IAML conference in Bordeaux this month. The 28-year-old qualified
less than two years ago after studying law in both England and France, and regularly works on the increasing number of international family law cases handled by the B P Collins family law group. In addition to Huxford’s personal success, B P Collins’ private client team has become one of the first law firms to be given the Wills and Inheritance Quality Scheme Award (WIQS) from The Law Society.
• Chartered accountancy firm TWP, based in Weybridge, has strengthened its tax team with the appointment of tax consultant Gemma Marshall. Marshall specialises in private client tax, including non-resident and non- domiciled individuals, as well as providing support for individuals and families with tax planning, trusts and estates. She also has considerable experience of advising on business tax and expatriate tax, having spent part of her professional training with a Big Four firm. Commenting on her new role, she said: “I am delighted to be working for such a forward- thinking firm. There is a greater emphasis on personal service here than there is at the big firms, so I am looking forward to developing strong, long-term client relationships and helping take TWP’s tax offering forward.”
• Shaw Gibbs has appointed chartered accountant Paul Wilson to its corporate finance team, based at the firm’s office in Oxford. Wilson will be working with Shaw Gibbs partner Peter O’Connell with a focus on mergers and acquisitions activity, including trade sales, management buyouts and fundraising activities such as raising seed capital, development capital and working capital primarily for the SME market. In a career spanning 20 years, Wilson has held senior finance roles in industry and lead advisory roles in corporate finance in firms including Lime Technology Group, Watersheds,
The Nuffield Press and Grant Thornton. In that time he has performed management buyouts, refinancing activities, disposals and acquisitions and is widely experienced in raising funds from and working with venture capitalists and private equity houses.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – MARCH 2014
• Regional law firm Brethertons LLP has appointed three senior healthcare industry lawyers to join its expanding commercial healthcare department. Commercial lawyer and healthcare centre restructure consultant Colin Witherall is supported by health sector commercial property lawyers Colin Frowd and Andrew Watts. Collectively, they have nearly 70 years’ experience in commercial law and join Brethertons as a fully-fledged, successfully- working team from Alsters Kelley, a large, regional West Midlands’ firm. A senior corporate and commercial lawyer, Witherall has successfully developed a regional and national niche and reputation in healthcare practice corporate structuring – including some of the country’s largest and most impressive healthcare practice restructures. Before joining Brethertons, he was respectively consultant, partner and head of commercial law at Alsters Kelley. Frowd has acted on around 50 healthcare developments to date for both owners and lenders; both where GPs are building their own health centre, or where third- parties are developing with the GPs moving in upon completion of the build. Accordingly, he has an in-depth understanding of the requirements of both the NHS and funders, which is paramount in terms of processing the complex property, lease, loan and construction documentation. Watts has considerable expertise in advising GPs and other health professionals on new developments of multi-use primary care centres and pharmacies. Equally, he regularly acts for lenders, which gives him a dual perspective of the many issues to be considered in order to successfully complete builds or redevelopments.
• WK Corporate Finance LLP has appointed Jane Orme as corporate finance manager. Orme joins from the Southampton office of law firm Trethowans LLP where she worked as a corporate finance solicitor. She has experience in M&A transactions ranging from £1 million to £50m including acquisitions, sales, investments and a number of private equity-backed management buyouts. Based predominantly at the firm’s Winchester and Southampton offices, Orme will work on deals across the UK alongside corporate finance director Philippa Robinson and the London-based team led by Andy Coghlan.
• Williams Advanced Engineering, part of the Williams Group of companies that includes the Williams F1 Team, has appointed Craig Wilson to the position of managing director. Wilson will have overall operational and delivery responsibility for existing projects within Williams Advanced Engineering, oversee all business development activity, and take a strategic lead as the company continues to commercialise Williams' F1-derived technology and knowhow for the motorsport, automotive, transport and energy sectors. As a highly successful executive within the automotive industry, he brings a wealth of experience to an exciting and rapidly-growing business.
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