Mills & Reeve brings in more experience to its real estate team

LAW firm Mills & Reeve has made a series of appointments to strengthen its real estate offering in Leeds.
Simon SherwoodSimon Sherwood
Simon Sherwood

Partner Simon Sherwood will lead the team of property law experts, which will also include Alison Howarth and Celia Pavitt. Mr Sherwood is the former head of real estate at DAC Beachcroft in Leeds. Ms Howarth also joins the team from DAC Beachcroft in Leeds, while Ms Pavitt joins Mills & Reeve after nearly six years at Addleshaw Goddard.

Mills & Reeve said that Mr Sherwood has considerable development experience in the commercial and residential property sectors, asset management, real estate investment and the private wealth sector, while he also works extensively in the primary healthcare sector.

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Also in the legal sector, Harrogate-based Kirbys has welcomed private client lawyer Amanda Lee to its team. She joins from joins from corporate Leeds law firm Clarion.

Irwin Mitchell has boosted its wills, trusts and estates disputes team with the appointment of Julia Burns (née Pearson), who will work in Leeds and Sheffield. She has eight years’ post-qualification experience at Clarion in Leeds and has worked in the area of disputed wills and trusts for the last six years.

She previously worked as a contentious sports and regulatory lawyer and in general commercial litigation.

Oxley & Coward Solicitors in Rotherham has announced the appointment of Abigail Watson, its new company commercial solicitor, who worked at DLA Piper for several years, where she specialised in non-contentious company and commercial law matters.

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Elsewhere, car dealer JCT600 has appointed a new general manager at its Bradford BMW and Mini dealerships. Phil Wardle was previously at Ringways Motor Group, where he held roles as general sales manager for Ford in Leeds, as dealer principal of Ford and Mazda in Doncaster and latterly as group sales director.

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