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• The Romans Group has strengthened its growing property management division with the recruitment of Louise Griffiths in a new directorial position. She joined Romans in March, and is stationed at the head office in Wokingham. With 15 years’ experience in the property industry, she has previously worked as a regional director at both Savills and Hamptons International. She sits on the Association of Residential Lettings Agent’s board. As part of the senior management team and leader of some 85 staff across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Middlesex, she
will have overall responsibility for property management within the group’s lettings division, including the integration of mergers and acquisitions.
• David Thomas of Reading-based McKay Securities has revealed his plans to step down as chairman after nine years in the role. This will be effective following the company's annual general meeting in July. Richard Grainger, who has been a non-executive director since May 2014, has been named by the real-estate investment trust as Thomas’ successor following the conclusion of the AGM. A qualified chartered accountant, Grainger is chairman of Harrington Brooks, a leading provider of debt management plans; a non- executive director of Palmer and Harvey (the UK’s leading delivered wholesaler); and a senior advisory board member of MHP (the financial PR and lobbying business). He was previously a non- executive director of Safestore plc from 2007 and chairman from 2008 to 2013. Prior to that he was chief executive of Close Brothers Corporate Finance from 2001 to 2007, and then chairman until 2009.
• At Pitmans LLP, Matt Heyworth (pictured) and Oliver Kelly have been promoted to partners. Heyworth works in the family and matrimonial department at Reading and specialises in all aspects of family law, including divorce, matrimonial finances, the preparation of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and children matters. Kelly works in the corporate department in Southampton and specialises in mergers and acquisitions, private-equity transactions and general corporate and commercial matters.
• Justin Read, who was appointed group finance director of Segro in August 2011, has informed the board of his intention to retire later this year, and the board is commencing a search for his successor. Segro’s chief executive officer David Sleath added: “Justin has been a key member of the executive team during the repositioning of SEGRO over the past five years. His stewardship of the finances of the company has placed SEGRO in a strong position to take advantage of opportunities to come.“
• Ascot Racecourse has appointed Rory Renwick as head of business development. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the sports industry, having led new business and sponsorship teams across a number of sports. Most recently he was head of sales for the Extreme Sailing Series and he was previously senior director of business development at the Women’s Tennis Association with responsibility for developing commercial partnerships across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
• Nicholas Rodriguez is being promoted to partner by Clifton Ingram LLP from this month. He qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and advises on divorce, dissolution and financial relief for high-net-worth clients. His private law children-work includes complex cases with multiple parties.
• Reading-based Blandy & Blandy LLP has appointed Brenda Long as its first female chairman, making her one of very few women to hold a similar role in the region and indeed nationally. It has also appointed four new partners. Long commented: ”Last year I was delighted to attend the Women in Business Awards evening, where Blandy & Blandy was named a finalist in the ‘enlightened employer’ category.” She added: “Nine of our firm’s 19 partners are female – a flagship balance that we are very proud of and committed to maintaining. The firms four new partners (pictured from left), John Dingle, Joanne Frears, Jonathan Williamson and Claire Dyer, have experience in areas including inward investment, which entails working with clients ranging from overseas banks and lenders to large companies moving into the UK, and intellectual property, with a focus on working with hi-tech developers and innovators.
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• Law firm Penningtons Manches has promoted James Went, Gavin Stenton and Gemma Woodhouse to partners; and Sabrina Furneaux-Gotch, Bill Smith and John Chater to senior associates in its Oxford, Basingstoke and Reading offices. Went (Oxford office) is a highly experienced corporate lawyer specialising in M&A and venture-capital work, with a particular focus on technology, life sciences and publishing. Stenton (Oxford office) is a dual-qualified trademarks specialist providing strategic brand protection advice to international brand owners. Woodhouse (Basingstoke office) specialises in both contentious and non-contentious employment law in the education, technology, publishing and media sectors. The new senior associates also have a range of specialities. Furneaux- Gotch of the Oxford office is an experienced litigator specialising in real estate disputes. Smith of the Oxford employment team has in-house and private practice experience of a full range of employment matters. John Chater is a member of the Reading banking and finance team and his expertise includes new-money lending to investment-grade borrowers and the restructuring of distressed businesses and insolvency procedures.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – MAY 2016
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