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Blandy & Blandy LLP has welcomed Amber Knight to its corporate and commercial team as a newly-qualified solicitor, having completed her training contract at the firm. Knight advises businesses, charities and educational institutions on all aspects of commercial law.
National law firm Shoosmiths has expanded its wealth- protection team with the appointment at the Reading office of Melissa Maple (left) as a partner and Louise Nelson (right) as an associate, complementing other specialist hires in Southampton, Birmingham and Edinburgh. Both join the firm from Oxfordshire-based Hedges Law where Maple was a director and head of private client. The new appointees bring considerable experience and expertise in advising wealthy business leaders and professionals on their personal affairs including trusts, wills, inheritance tax planning, creation and registration of lasting powers of attorneys, Court of Protection work and the administration of high- net-worth estates.
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Tuffin Ferraby Taylor (TFT), independent property and construction consultancy, has announced four appointments as it continues to deliver its strategic growth ambitions over 2016. The Guildford office has appointed Gary Holister as a senior project manager. Holister is a member of the Association for Project Management and associate member of the Chartered Institute of Building.
The corporate team of law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys has grown with the advent of new partner Mary Pears who will be based in the Green Park office but also work with the team in Cheltenham. She has a wealth of experience both in the Thames Valley marketplace and beyond in all aspects of corporate and company law, and she advises on a wide variety of legal issues for businesses ranging from family-run firms to national companies.
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conveyancing specialist and head of the Thatcham office of Gardner Leader solicitors, has retired after 39 years with the firm. Patrick Stewart, a senior associate who has over 20 years’ experience in both residential and commercial property, and Michelle Challis, an associate who has worked for 10 years in residential sales and purchases, will take over the running of the office.
Gardner Leader has also promoted three of its solicitors: Judith Rountree, who won LawNet’s Young Lawyer of the Year Award 2013, to senior associate in the dispute resolution department in Newbury, and Andrew Shipp and David Finnerty to associates.
Mark Charter, head of the Oxford office of Carter Jonas, has celebrated reaching 25 years with the business. He joined the company 25 years ago in 1991 as a graduate in its rural-property team in the Marlborough office, having graduated from the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester.
Top-20 accountancy firm MHA MacIntyre Hudson has appointed Justin Moss as partner in its High Wycombe office. A chartered accountant, he joined the firm in 2009 as a graduate trainee and has steadily grown his client portfolio. Today he advises clients of all sizes, from owner-managed and family-run businesses to publicly-quoted companies.
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