The Birmingham office of global law firm DLA Piper has run a large round of promotions.
Lisa Hodgson and Samantha Haglington of the practice’s employment team became Legal Director and Senior Associate, respectively.
Gemma Rooney and Neetu Sehdev (finance, projects and restructuring), Taryn Jones and Joe Cater (litigation and regulatory), Michael Stead (intellectual property and technology) and Pieter Claussen (real estate) also advance to the senior associate level.
Trevor Ivory, Birmingham Managing Partner, said, “DLA Piper has a unique role in helping businesses in the area. Recruiting and retaining the best talent is key to our ability to play that role.”
“To be able to announce these promotions at the end of such a tumultuous year is a testament to that talent.
“These promotions are part of our ambitious growth plans for Birmingham, which the pandemic will not change and which will accelerate as we near our move to a prestigious new office in Two Chamberlain Square in July.”
The Greater Birmingham Apprenticeship Awards are back for 2021 and can now be submitted here.
The event will take place on Thursday November 11th at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham and will celebrate apprentices, employers and training providers across 12 categories, including our total Apprentice of the Year.
The closing date for entries for the awards is Friday, September 17th. Sponsorship opportunities are now also available.
Please email richard.edwards@reachplc.com for more information and follow the hashtag # GBAA21 for updates on social media.
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Also in the Birmingham legal sector, Irwin Mitchell has added four new faces and 15 new senior executives to its partnership.
The new partners are Amy Keogh (restructuring and recovery), Donna Seferta (employment), and Jenna Harris and Laura Daly (medical negligence).
The new Senior Associates are Tom Fletcher and Mark Cawley (medical negligence), Jon-Paul Casati (commercial dispute resolution), Leanne Moretta (employment), Lucy Bloom (protective court) and Steven Baylis (public law).
The new hires are Abbi Copson and Kate Fellows (Employment), Leanne Leighton and Jen Shipley (Medical Negligence), Tara Smith and Lucy Todd (Family), Gabrielle Kinsella (Expenses), James Riley (Serious Injury) and Michelle Chapman (Wills) , Trusts and estate disputes).
Irwin Mitchell recently announced that it has a “flexible approach of choice,” where colleagues are free to choose how and when to work based on the needs of their role and their clients.
Birmingham-based telecommunications company Flomatik has appointed a new managing director.
Dean Checkley has over 35 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and began his career at the age of 16 as an apprentice at GEC Telecommunications in Coventry.
Before that he was interim managing director at Rural Optic.
Flomatik operates its main design and planning facilities at Fort Dunlop in Castle Bromwich.
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Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership has appointed a new director of economic strategy.
Henriette Breukelaar has a background in economic development and was Marketing and Communications Director at High Value Manufacturing Catapult and Head of the Project Portfolio at Innovation Birmingham.
She spent ten years with the now defunct regional development agency Advantage West Midlands, where she became director.
Accounting firm Azets has promoted Ben Sheldon to director of their Birmingham business.
The company created a new audit team in the city in 2019, which was joined by Mr Sheldon from PwC.
He also supports Azets at the national level and sits on the national audit committee.
“I am very pleased to have contributed to the continued growth of the Birmingham office and I look forward to taking the first step in my new role as Director,” he said.
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Shoosmiths law firm has announced three partners in their Birmingham office.
Elinor Sanbach (real estate), Lucy Taylor (asset protection) and Sarah Tedstone (data protection, privacy and cybersecurity) have joined forces.
Shoosmiths said the promotions meant that 38 percent of the company’s partners were now women.
The financial services company BDO has appointed a new senior corporate finance specialist.
Drew Johnson will lead a new wealth-based lending advisory service in the Midlands.
He joins PNC Business Credit, a major US financial institution, as a Director, where he served as a director of business development initiating, structuring and executing large SMB and medium-sized transactions in the £ 1 million to £ 150 million range.
He has 20 years of corporate finance and banking experience.