Sector Focus
New faces at Clarke Willmott
Law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has enhanced its market-leading social housing team with the appointment of 11 new team members. The team has welcomed partner
Hannah Langford, who was previously a property and contracts lawyer at Clarion Housing, one of the UK’s largest social housing providers. Also joining the team are senior
associates Joanna Jackson, previously a specialist at Devonshires, and Angela Byrne who has 25 years’ experience in Social Housing litigation, as well as associate Muzammel Mian, an experienced social housing solicitor previously with the Metropolitan Housing Trust. New solicitors Sarah Cave, who
previously worked in Devonshires property team, Victoria Smith, who worked for social housing specialists Glazer Delmar, and Alexis Campbell, who comes from Simply Social Housing Limited, together with trainee legal executive Nafisa Bibi, previously in house at social housing provider Guinness, have also joined. The team will also be supported
by new paralegals Ashleigh Draper, Cecilia Fletcher and Laura Rolls.
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Pinsent Masons tops annual law survey
Law firm Pinsent Masons, which has an office in Birmingham, has taken first place in the Planning annual law survey. First published in 1998, the leading trade
magazine’s annual survey helps planners and legal practitioners to identify the solicitors, law firms and barristers best equipped to deal with planning matters. A key project that is being led by the
firm’s Birmingham office is the appointment by Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council as joint landowners of Manydown Urban Extension, West Basingstoke. The project was one of the original Garden Towns
identified and supported by the Government and will ultimately deliver circa 10,000 homes. National Head of Development Planning and
Birmingham-based partner, Rebecca Warren, is leading on this work and she is also the winner of ‘Partner of the Year’ at the Birmingham Law Society Awards this year.
Rebecca Warren (pictured) and the Birmingham team of planning and infrastructure lawyers are working on a number of Midlands based projects such as urban extensions at Hinckley, Wellingborough, Daventry and Coalville as well as the Midland Metro Birmingham Eastside Extension and Arena Central. Ms Warren said: “We are absolutely
delighted to have been recognised again this year. We have an excellent team of lawyers, who
are expert in all areas of planning and environmental law. “In Birmingham, the team has worked hard through
the last 12 months delivering top quality, commercially focused advice on some fantastic projects.” Other key projects for Pinsent Masons include
NuGen’s Moorside nuclear plant in Cumbria, DONG Energy's Hornsea Offshore Wind Farm, the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm in Scotland and FAB Link's cross- Channel electricity interconnector project.
Appointment of partner expands real estate team
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Prominent regeneration and projects lawyer Stephen Chalcraft (pictured) has joined leading UK law firm Shakespeare Martineau as a partner, bolstering the firm’s expanding real estate and projects team across the Midlands and the North West. Mr Chalcraft will work closely
with the firm’s real estate, energy, infrastructure and planning lawyers, delivering end-to-end major projects across higher education, public and private sectors. He has nearly two decades’
experience working with major law firms in the City of London and the North West. Mr Chalcraft said:
“Shakespeare Martineau is an innovative and dynamic law firm and is committed to expanding in the North West and the Midlands with a focus on regeneration and complex projects’ work. “With the Northern
Powerhouse and the Midlands Engine gaining significant momentum, it’s a great opportunity.” Mr Chalcraft has extensive
experience in project managing large and complex public/private projects, and has worked on city centre regeneration schemes, transport and energy infrastructure projects, enterprise zones, and University campus development schemes both in the UK and abroad. Described by Legal 500 as
‘intellectual and entrepreneurial’, Mr Chalcraft is an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is vice-president of
the North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce and chairs both the Chamber’s regeneration and property policy group and its energy group. He is also chairman
of the regeneration and property policy group for
Pro.Manchester.
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