This week's Yorkshire appointments: Featuring Headstar, Andrew Jackson Solicitors LLP & UKIFC

This week’s round up of Yorkshire appointments includes Headstar, Andrew Jackson Solicitors LLP & UKIFC. Read on to find out more.

Katy Ashdown, Headstar

Leeds-headquartered finance recruitment consultancy, Headstar, has made a senior hire to its 22-strong team as it looks to keep up with growing demand amongst businesses for interim finance professionals.

Specialising in senior interim finance roles, Katy Ashdown joins the team as a manager within Headstar’s burgeoning Interim Finance Division.

The role will see Ashdown, who has more than 14 years’ experience of the finance recruitment market, work with businesses of all sizes, including larger corporates, across West and North Yorkshire, to resource their interim needs and connect them with high-quality senior finance professionals. In particular, she will focus on sourcing finance business partners, financial controllers and specialist project-based roles.

Her appointment comes as the interim market continues to go from strength to strength, with Headstar’s Interim Finance Division reporting a 51 per cent increase in revenues over the first five months of 2023.

David Clark, director and senior finance recruitment specialist at Headstar, said: “Katy joins us as one of the most well-known interim recruiters for finance in the region. She is the ideal person to help us grow our interim division, possessing the contacts, market knowledge, experience and, most importantly, the signature Headstar ‘down to earth’ character we look for in all our consultants.”

Grace Moreton, Andrew Jackson Solicitors LLP

Regional law firm Andrew Jackson Solicitors LLP is delighted to announce that Grace Moreton has been promoted to the position of senior solicitor in the corporate recovery and insolvency team.

Grace trained and qualified as a corporate solicitor, gaining valuable experience of acting for a range of businesses across different sectors before specialising in restructuring and insolvency work for clients based in the UK and overseas. Her broad client base includes company directors, corporate stakeholders, financial institutions, and insolvency practitioners.

Grace’s work focuses on non-contentious insolvency and restructuring matters, which require specialist knowledge of company procedures including share allotments and transfers, and the preparation and completion of company documentation.

She is particularly experienced in drafting and advising on asset sales and purchases, bank security reviews, insolvent property and real estate work, and commercial contracts.

Azher Quyoom, partner, and head of corporate recovery and insolvency at Andrew Jackson Solicitors, said: “Grace is committed to the provision of trusted legal advice in a commercial and practical manner, which is consistently recognised in our client feedback right across the firm, and there is no doubt that she is an asset to the practice.”

**Shakeel Adli, UKIFC

After recently ramping up its UK operations, Zunikh’s founder and CEO, Shakeel Adli, has been appointed to the UKIFC Advisory board. In this new role Shakeel will be lending his experience to help to promote and enhance the global Islamic finance industry.

Established in 2005, the Islamic Finance Council (UKIFC) is a not-for-profit organisation focussed on the establishment, promotion and regulation of Islamic finance. It promotes co-ordination between Islamic finance and the broader ethical finance arena, whilst improving awareness and understanding of the world of Islamic finance.

Shakeel joins UKIFC at an exciting time professionally. His property development and investment business, Zunikh, has significantly expanded its operations within the UK earlier this year. Based in London and Sheffield, Zunikh’s model embraces the Islamic principal of ethical investment and gives 50 per cent of its profit to local communities.

Shakeel was formerly the global head of Islamic Finance at top international law firm CMS, and brings this experience, alongside his work at Zunikh, into his role at UKIFC.

Shakeel Adli, founder and CEO of Zunikh, said: “I am honoured to be appointed to the UKIFC Advisory board and cannot wait to get started building relationships to promote the awareness of Islamic finance.”

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