After three years of mergers and acquisitions Birmingham-based CPBigwood has appointed Brett Williams as its new managing partner.
A chartered surveyor and past chairman of the Association of Residential Managing Agents, Williams is also a Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors management committee member.
He takes over from Nigel Curry who oversaw Bigwood’s 2011 merger with Curry and Partners — which created the CPBigwood name — and the firm’s first London office opening.
Lloyd Property Management in Leicestershire was bought out a year later to establish an East Midlands’ base and last year CPBigwood acquired DMA Chartered Surveyors in Hampshire, extending its presence across the south of England.
“This is a natural progression for the firm as Brett was always intended as Nigel’s successor long term and we are very grateful for the work that Nigel has put in to bed down a merger of two very busy companies and oversee the merger of both staff and systems as we have expanded in the East Midlands, the south and London,” said CPBigwood senior partner Rory Daly.
Property firm Sanderson Weatherall — which employs around 200 staff at its offices in Leeds, London, Newcastle, Manchester, Teesside and Bristol — has made its sixth appointment to its Tyneside office in as many months.
Darren Naylor is joining the Newcastle valuation team as senior surveyor and will carry out commissions for banks, corporate and private clients across the region.
Other recent recruits include Martin Smith, Jade Hadden and Amanda Haldane who have all joined the building consultancy team as associate partner and graduate surveyors.
Emily Seager has joined the asset management department as an associate partner to deal with landlord and tenant matters and Charlotte Marshall has been recruited to the commercial and retail agency team on a year’s placement from Northumbria University.
Among the office’s recent promotions are Alex Slack, who is now a senior surveyor from surveyor, while Kevin McGorie, Victoria Bollands and Kenny Hiles have all been made associate partners, from their previous posts as senior surveyors.
Returning north of the border, Caroline Shand is leaving Nabarro LLP’s London operation to join Tods Murray Solicitors’ Edinburgh office as a partner.
The property finance and investment specialist will work on the Scottish side of cross border portfolio investment and finance business.
Shand joins Tods Murray’s recently appointed head of real estate finance, Iain Wishart, who was hired by the firm earlier this year from Barclays Bank Plc where he was vice-president in charge of legal matters.
After completing a commercial real estate MA at the University of Sheffield, Ross Jackson is joining CBRE’s Leeds office as graduate surveyor within its valuation team which has recently worked on portfolios for the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC as well as advising on major assets including The Pinnacle, Leeds and Thorpe Park.
Story: Cliff Goodwin
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