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• B P Collins has promoted (from left) Mike Wragg, Chris Brazier Vicky Johnson and Lucy Fisher to associates. Johnson joined the firm in 2015 and specialises in trusts, inheritance-tax planning and estate administration as well as managing wills, powers of attorney and probate for her clients. She is dual qualified in Scottish law. She is joined as a senior associate in the private client team by Fisher who specialises in wills, lasting-powers-of-attorney and court-of protection work. Wragg, who joined the firm in 2014, is promoted to senior associate in the property team. He specialises in residential property including freehold and leasehold work, re-mortgages and transfer of equity. Brazier, who has a wealth of experience in employment matters, completes the promotions group. He has a particular focus on advising corporate clients on business immigration issues and particularly on the obtaining of sponsorship licences.


• Gateley plc, the UK’s first publicly-quoted commercial law firm, has made its first moves towards establishing a full-service offering from its new Reading office with the appointment of three partners: Andrew Peddie, Nicola Kirk and Owen Reynolds. The new hires will join Christopher Avery, head of Gateley’s Reading office, at the firm’s new offices in 'The Blade'. Peddie, formerly head of corporate at Pitmans, has joined Gateley as corporate partner. He specialises in M&A and corporate-finance work, joint ventures, equity fundraisings and complex reorganisations. Kirk joins the firm as corporate recovery partner, having been a partner at Pitmans for more than 20 years. She has been charged with building a corporate recovery team. Reynolds, a partner at Pitmans since 2014 has been appointed as partner to head up Gateley’s private client offering in Reading. Further appointments are Mark Metcalfe and Sarah Lake who join the corporate team as associate and solicitor respectively; Madeleine Young who joins the private client team as legal executive; and Charlotte Gorley, a newly-qualified commercial lawyer, who will be working with a range of clients.


• Magdalen College has appointed science and business park specialist Piers Scrimshaw-Wright to the new role of managing director at The Oxford Science Park. He will be responsible for asset management and the ambitious development plans for an additional 300,000-plus sq ft of office and laboratory space over the next 10 years. Scrimshaw- Wright is a qualified chartered surveyor with over 20 years’ experience of development and asset management,


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• International legal practice Osborne Clarke has appointed Jeffrey Chang a partner at its Thames Valley office in Reading. This is one of three partner promotions in the UK. Chang has experience of a broad range of corporate work, with a sector focus on digital business, technology and automotive, and acts for companies and financial institutions of all sizes. These range from entrepreneurs through to some of the largest companies operating in the Thames Valley region and beyond.


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• Following a vote of all the partners, Paul Eagland has been elected as the new managing partner of accountancy and advisory firm BDO LLP. From October he will succeed the current managing partner, Simon Michaels, who will then have completed his maximum of two four-year terms. Eagland comes to the role with a wealth of experience. He has been at BDO for 29 years and a member of BDO’s leadership team since 2008. He has held a number of senior-leadership positions during that time,


• Top-20 UK accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy has appointed David Kitson as a tax partner in its Amersham office. He has more than 20 years’ experience, including more than 10 years at a top-10 accountancy firm. He will oversee the Wilkins Kennedy offices in Amersham, Hertford and Southend. Kitson specialises in working with owner-managed businesses and entrepreneurs, with both corporate and individual tax affairs and restructuring. His specialist sectors are manufacturing and travel, including tour operators.


• 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.


including head of national tax, head of national audit and, most recently, head of national professional services.


and nine years as a principal at Arlington Securities and Goodman Group.


• Charles Russell Speechlys’ Guildford office has appointed three new partners. William Marriott, private property; Ben Smith, employment; and Jamie Cartwright, commercial dispute resolution. In addition, Rebecca Burford, William Rollin, Jonathan Thompson and Gareth Walliss have been promoted to senior associates. Cartwright specialises in handling commercial and corporate disputes, as well as providing advice, particularly to in-house counsel, on contentious and potentially contentious matters. Marriott heads the private property team in Guildford, and acts on behalf of clients in relation to all their private-property requirements. He specialises in the acquisition and disposal of property across the south and has considerable experience in dealing with country houses and properties on private estates. Smith advises on a wide range of employment matters, both contentious and non-contentious. He has particular expertise in providing practical commercial advice to corporate clients on the whole range of HR issues.


THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – JUNE 2016


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