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• Guildford-based Stevens & Bolton has hired partner Stephen Rockhill to join its expanding construction and engineering practice. He joins the firm from Charles Russell Speechlys, where he was a partner. Rockhill began his career as a chartered engineer running his own consultancy before qualifying as a lawyer and joining the legacy City firm Charles Russell. He has worked in contracting and construction in the UK and Canada for over 25 years. He joins Stevens & Bolton’s highly regarded construction and engineering group, which is headed up by Matthew Needham-Laing, who is also dual-qualified as both a lawyer and architect. Rockhill is a leading construction lawyer, well known in the market. He is ranked in the top tier of construction lawyers in Chambers UK, where clients praise his "commercial attitude" as well as his “impressive” breadth of knowledge. His
practice covers both contentious and non- contentious construction work across high-value procurement and contractual construction matters. He represents private and public sector clients on a range of issues. His mandates include project rescues for corporate clients, representing ultra-high-net-worth private clients on property acquisitions and high-end fit- outs and acting for developers on large residential schemes.
• Haines Watts chartered accountants has welcomed Kapil Davda to its High Wycombe office as a partner. Davda previously spent several years working for a top 50 practice in London. He offers a proactive service to SMEs in these changing and challenging times and is particularly knowledgeable in the creative, media, technology and property sectors. Davda said: “It’s exciting to be part of this successful and growing team, which has a solid reputation for supporting all types of SMEs in the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire regions through all stages in their lifecycle.” Gary
Heywood, managing partner, said: “Kapil brings valuable experience to the business and we look forward to him being a central part of our growth over many years.”
• Adrian Moss, a trust and personal tax specialist and one of Eprivateclient’s 2014 ‘Top 35 under 35', has been promoted to associate director in the Penningtons Manches’ private client team. He joined the firm in 2002 and manages the personal and trust tax compliance services for the firm’s clients. Based in the
Godalming office, Moss has considerable experience in the taxation of UK trusts, individuals, beneficiaries of non-residence trusts and remittance basis users. His expertise covers a wide variety of family situations for which he and his team provide a full legal and administrative service to trustees, executors and individuals. Commenting on his promotion, Penningtons Manches private client team partner Clare Archer said: “Adrian’s promotion is much deserved. He and his team are the unsung heroes who provide valuable support for one of the largest legal private client teams in the country, giving our clients much-needed reassurance that their tax position is returned to HMRC promptly and accurately.”
• HMT LLP has announced that Paul Read (left) has been appointed to partner from April 1. Read is a due diligence specialist and has been working in HMT's transaction support team since joining in January 2013. Read’s appointment as a partner, working alongside Andrew Thomson, confirms HMT's position as a leading due diligence provider in the Thames Valley and London market complementing its
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successes in lead advisory and tax. HMT has also promoted Peter Wear (right) to director. Wear has been working in HMT's corporate finance team since May 2013 and he advised on major HMT transactions in the past two years including the MBI of Cooper Callas, the acquisitions of Envirofone, Mobilepoint and Insitu by Redeem Holdings and £15 million fundraising for Redeem.
• Caroline Waldron has moved from the Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) London office to join its Maidenhead and Slough team at a time when the market there is set for exciting growth. Demand is increasing as a result of Crossrail and WRAtH infrastructure improvements, and significant funding announcements will see the area flourish as a business, retail and residential centre. With five years’ experience in the West London market, Waldron will concentrate on office agency in Maidenhead, Slough and the
surrounding area, including acquisitions, lettings and disposals on behalf of both tenants and landlords.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – MAY 2015
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