This week's Yorkshire appointments

Yorkshire lawyer Philip Ashworth is joining regional law firm Andrew Jackson as part of the firm’s continued expansion into York.

Mr. Ashworth is a well known and respected figure in the Yorkshire corporate finance market having advised on a wide range of deals including the sale of Energas in Hull to Air Liquide; the acquisition of Uquifa, a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Spain and Mexico for Indian conglomerate, Vivimed; and the sale of the UK and Irish manufacturing assets of Finnish chemicals group, Dynea.

Andrew Jackson has already expanded its team this year with the appointments of commercial property partner, Helen Mellors, who has over 25 years’ commercial property experience in the York market, tax consultant Fiona Phillips and paralegal Grace Howell, all of whom will also be working from the firm’s York office, with further appointments already lined up for later in the year.

Mark Pearson-Kendall, managing partner of Andrew Jackson said: - “Philip is a significant addition to Andrew Jackson. His reputation, experience and commitment to York and the surrounding region is unparalleled and is exactly what we have been looking for.

“I am delighted that Philip, Helen, Fiona and Grace have all chosen to join Andrew Jackson and their combined wealth of experience will further supplement our existing corporate and commercial property offering throughout the region.”

Mark Rose, Patrick McCourt and Alan Coleman, Projex Building Solutions

Leeds-based project manager and cost consultants, Projex Building Solutions, has announced a trio of new appointments.

Patrick McCourt, a data centre construction specialist, joins as director to establish a new division focusing on the data centre market and with a wider remit to develop and enhance the current Projex project management offering.

Formerly European construction director with Global Switch, one of the largest colocation data centre providers in the Europe and before that as project director with Sentrum (now part of Digital Reality Trust), Patrick brings fifteen years’ experience working in this dynamic and fast growing sector on multi-million pound projects both in this country and across Europe.

He is joined by Alan Coleman and Mark Rose, who join as building surveyor and quantity surveyor respectively.

Alan was formerly with Jones Melling in Warrington and brings nearly ten years’ experience, including nationwide building surveys for organisations such as HMRC.

Mark is a graduate from Leeds Metropolitan University and has spent the last four years with EC Harris, part of Arcadis, and will strengthen the quantity surveying team in Leeds.

Phil Tomalin, Projex director, said: “We are delighted to welcome Pat, Alan and Mark on board. This is an exciting time in our development as we start on site this year with some of the leading mixed use and retail schemes in the UK. Pat’s experience is fairly unique and will open up new markets for us in what is a highly specialised construction sector. “

Charlotte Pinfold, Ryden

Property agent Ryden has announced six promotions across its UK offices, with one being Leeds-based Charlotte Pinfold, who has been promoted from surveyor to senior surveyor within the growing Project & Building Consultancy team.

Also promoted in the same team is senior surveyor Rob Pearson (Edinburgh based) to associate.

Industrial specialist Alan Herriot moves up from associate to partner. Alan is a regular winner of the Estates Gazette Most Active Deal Maker in Edinburgh title.

In Aberdeen, two senior planning consultants promoted to associate: Claire Coutts and Michael Lorimer; both are based in the firm’s Consulting team in Aberdeen.

Edinburgh Property Management team member Andrew Trumper was also promoted from surveyor to senior surveyor.

Bill Duguid, managing partner of Ryden, said: “I am proud to reward the hard work and results achieved by these outstanding individuals after an encouraging year for Ryden, where early indications show a strong year despite challenging economic factors.”

“In our most recent client survey, 100% of clients said they were happy or very happy with our service and we are committed to retaining and developing our people so that we can maintain these high standards.”

Philip Goldsborough, Irwin Mitchell

Law firm Irwin Mitchell’s Leeds office has boosted its Corporate team with the appointment of high profile dealmaker Philip Goldsborough from Pinsent Masons.

Philip joins as a Partner and specialises in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and corporate finance work. He has many years experience, advising many high profile UK and international public and private companies on a wide range of transactions, including equity capital markets transactions and general corporate matters.

He is the sixth Partner to be recruited by Irwin Mitchell’s fast-growing Business Legal Services (BLS) division since the start of 2015 and joins a Yorkshire-based Corporate team which already consists of five Partners.

Niall Baker, Partner and Chief Executive of Irwin Mitchell’s BLS division said:

“Philip is a first class hire for the Leeds office and his recruitment is another clear signal of our intention to build one of the region’s leading and most respected business legal services team. We are excited about the growth opportunities that are presenting themselves in the market and are confident that we are in a strong position to take advantage.”

Other Partner hires in 2015 are Yorkshire-based Employment specialist, Kirsty Ayre, who like Philip Goldsborough, moved to Irwin Mitchell from Pinsent Masons.

Restructuring Partner, Stephen George, Real Estate Partner Ben Acheson and Commercial Litigation specialist, Simon Ellis, have also arrived at Irwin Mitchell since the turn of the year.

Grant Edmondson, Wykeland Group

Yorkshire commercial property developer Wykeland Group has appointed Grant Edmondson to its board of directors.

In his new role as Property Director, Mr Edmondson will oversee the management of the company’s growing £65m commercial property portfolio and manage sales and lettings at the Wykeland’s three Humber-based business parks – Europarc near Grimsby, Bridgehead adjacent to the northern approach roads to the Humber Bridge and Melton West on the A63 ten miles west of Hull.

Commenting on the appointment, Dominic Gibbons, managing director of Wykeland Group, said: “Grant joins the board at a very exciting time for the business.”

“Wykeland Group currently has a number of fantastic developments ongoing including @thedock in Hull’s Fruit Market which features at its centre C4DI, a building that will have a transformative effect on the city’s digital and tech economy, and Flemingate in Beverley.

“Our Humber-based business parks offer some of the best commercial premises in the north and continue to attract a lot of interest and activity. In his new role Grant will play a hugely important part overseeing and managing them.”

Sarah Ball, Creative Marketing Services

Leeds-based advertising agency group, Creative Marketing Services, has expanded its team of account managers with the appointment of Sarah Ball.

Offering a wealth of experience through previous positions in media sales at Newsquest Media Group and Johnston Press, Sarah has joined the recruitment advertising department to manage several major accounts. She will be planning print and online recruitment advertising, employer branding and candidate attraction for some of the UK’s busiest HR departments.

Commenting on the appointment, Sarah said: “The employer brand has never been more important. When considering prospective employers, candidates are increasingly thinking ‘what would it do for my image if I worked for you?’ Those companies which understand the importance of the employer brand attract and retain better staff.”

Now in its 33rd year, Creative Marketing Services is judged to be a UK top-twelve provider in recruitment advertising and employer branding.

Added to its other departments, which work together to provide full-service capability, the group is well established as one of the north’s leading marketing agencies.

Bridget Spence, Angela Sansom and Rachael Doyle, Consumer Credit Compliance

Harrogate’s CCC (Consumer Credit Compliance) – launched just over 12 months ago by compliance expert Ian Beardmore – has appointed Bridget Spence and Angela Sansom as senior client engagement managers, whilst Rachael Doyle joins the firm as a compliance account manager.

CCC clients include credit brokers, retailers, lenders, debt management and debt collection firms as well as many other industry sectors.

Mr Beardmore, who started the business with IT expert David Petty, said: “I’m delighted to welcome Bridget, Angela and Rachael to the team, which has grown like topsy over the last six months.

“In addition to servicing our existing clients, we also need to ensure we can look after the compliance needs of new business as it arrives through the door, hence these three appointments.

“And, in order to accommodate our growing workforce, we have expanded into two offices within Windsor House. This will give us the flexibility we need to comfortably increase the CCC team without the worry of looking for a new base.”

Wayne Walker, Williamsons Solicitors

Wayne Walker, who worked as a paralegal and trainee solicitor, while also running the Ringside bar in Hull, is now fully qualified and recently joined Williamsons Solicitors’ leading clinical negligence team.

After graduating with a law degree from the University of Hull in 2004, Wayne, who grew up, and still lives, in Bransholme, north Hull, gained a Legal Practice Certificate from the University of the West of England in 2013.

Medical negligence cases he has worked on include that of a woman from Hull who died in 2009. He volunteered to give her family support and they then instructed him to act on their behalf, winning the family a six-figure sum in compensation.

A recent high profile case he was involved in, before joining Williamsons Solicitors, is currently being heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and involves a claim against an NHS trust.

Tim Slow, head of Williamsons Solicitors clinical negligence department, said: “Wayne has a great track-record in securing compensation for clients with a vast number of awards, ranging from a few thousand pounds to a million plus.

“He has put great effort into achieving the results his clients truly deserve.”

Commenting on the appointment, Wayne added: “At the Ringside I’d come across people there who had suffered from medical negligence. While working there and as paralegal, I was able to help them and in the process built up my medical negligence knowledge.”

“I wanted to do something to help people, but in an area of law that genuinely taxed me mentally.”

Williamsons Solicitors clinical negligence team consistently appears in the leading legal guides, Chambers and Legal 500.

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