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• Oxfordshire’s longest-established firm of architects, town planners and urban designers has appointed Alex Pratt OBE as non-executive chairman of the partnership. A serial entrepreneur, Pratt is chairman at Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and chairs Buckinghamshire Business First. Since March 2014, he has also chaired the management board of the national LEP network of all 39 LEPs, bringing together private, public and civil sectors in a focused mission to drive stronger economic growth and business development across the UK. He was previously a director of the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA). Pratt’s appointment is intended to give strategic guidance to the partnership at a time of considerable growth and opportunity, particularly within the housing and transport sectors.
• Law firm Gardner Leader has made three new appointments to its residential property teams in Maidenhead and Newbury. Emma Jones (left), licensed conveyancer, and Ben Baccas (right), paralegal, will both be based in Newbury, while Wajid Ashraf (centre), also a paralegal, will work from the Maidenhead office joining Fiona Tighe, an associate solicitor who has been with the firm in Newbury since 2006 and will be moving over to head up the property team in Maidenhead. Jones has 12 years' experience
in residential property conveyancing and is a member of the Council for Licensed Conveyancers. She previously worked for a large firm of solicitors in Newbury. Baccas and Ashraf, who recently graduated from BPP Law School in London, will be supporting the property teams in Newbury and Maidenhead respectively as they work towards their goals of becoming qualified solicitors. Tighe qualified in 1983 and deals with a wide variety of property work from first-time buyers to high- value properties.
• Partners at commercial property firm Vail Williams have appointed Matthew Samuel-Camps as its new chief executive. Ian Rudland, the firm’s current CEO, is stepping down after 17 years at the helm as part of the firm’s continued development and succession planning. He will continue as a partner in the business. Samuel-Camps said: “I am honoured to have been asked to lead the firm as it enters an exciting period in its development. After a tough period, the property market is gaining in
• Josie Palmer, a chartered surveyor and local partner of Fisher German in Thame, has become a fellow of the Agricultural Law Association (ALA) having successfully passed her fellowship examinations. The ALA is an independent inter-professional organisation dealing with all matters arising in connection with rural business. It is regularly consulted by government on legislative and policy changes, and provides impartial practical comment on proposed measures, as well as educating its membership on current issues, legislative changes and important recent cases. Palmer joined Fisher German’s Thame office last November to meet the growing demand in the area for rural property services. She joins from the Harewood Estate, having previously spent 10 years with Smiths Gore and Cluttons. She provides a broad range of professional consultancy advice to farmers, landowners and landed estates.
confidence and Vail Williams is well placed to continue to take advantage of that renewal.“
• Marlow and High Wycombe-based independent commercial property practice Deriaz Slater has appointed Peter Wilder as associate partner. Wilder qualified as a chartered surveyor in 2004 and has over 12 years’ experience working with occupiers and landlords. Having started his career as a City agent, specialising in large pre-let acquisitions for clients such as Man Group, Barclays and Bloomberg, he has spent the past six years managing the corporate real estate portfolios for Deutsche Bank and Sony. Wilder will be based at the company’s Marlow office, working closely with existing associate partner Mark Potter, and will be responsible for a mixture of agency and professional work.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – APRIL 2015
• Solicitors Parrott & Coales LLP has expanded its commercial and residential property team as the green shoots of the UK's housing market continue to grow. Solicitor Lorraine Wilde
joins the residential arm of the Aylesbury-based firm just two months after the appointment of Brinder Randhawa, associate solicitor. This latest appointment now takes the property team to seven solicitors. Wilde has nine years' experience in property law. Her training and experience started when working for a major law firm in London where she stayed for five years before joining a solicitors in Maidenhead. She specialises in all matters related to buying, selling and leasing all types of property, but has a particular interest in residential property matters.
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