This week’s national appointments: Featuring rradar, Aaron & Partners and MAC Construction Consultants

This week’s round up of national appointments includes rradar, Aaron & Partners and MAC Construction Consultants. Read on to find out more.

Emma Yates, rradar

Litigation and commercial law firm rradar has announced the appointment of Emma Yates as its new head of intellectual property. Emma’s appointment sees the strengthening of the Intellectual Property practice area for the multi-awarding winning and fast-growing law firm.

rradar’s head office is in Hull, with other UK offices in Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham and Leicester, with the firm now employing over 160 staff across its locations.

Richard Crabb, rradar’s chief operating officer, commented: “I am delighted to announce that Emma Yates has joined rradar as head of intellectual property. She brings a wealth of expertise, having established herself as an intellectual property (IP) law specialist, with a particular focus on disputes.

“Before joining rradar, Emma was a senior associate (IP Litigation and Defamation) with Irwin Mitchell in Leeds where she represented the full spectrum of clients from small owner-managed businesses, to large corporations in relation to IP and defamation disputes and advisory matters in the UK and EU (prior to Brexit).

Emma added: “I am delighted to be joining rradar at such an exciting time, particularly at a critical part of its growth . After meeting the leadership team, it’s clear to me that the firm is committed to offering a different, smarter and competitive way of managing intellectual property issues for its clients.

“rradar has a fantastic reputation within the legal sector in the UK and it is a privilege to be joining such a well-respected firm. This is a tremendous opportunity for me and I look forward to establishing rradar as one of the leading and most-respected IP advisers in the north of England and beyond.”

Hugh Strickland, Aaron & Partners

Aaron & Partners has appointed a new head of its Shrewsbury office. Corporate finance partner Hugh Strickland, who has worked in the business since 2014, will take on the role following significant growth in terms of people and revenue for the firm’s Shropshire based office in recent years.

He succeeds Stuart Haynes, a corporate & commercial partner, in the role. Stuart continues his focus on growing the firm’s international practice, in addition to supporting his clients. Stephen Taylor, a partner in the dispute resolution team, has been appointed as deputy head of the Shrewsbury office

Nick Clarke, senior partner and head of dispute resolution, commented: “We’ve been pleased with the outstanding growth of our Shrewsbury office and Stuart has played a key part in that, as well as being a driving force for our international work. We’re extremely grateful for his huge contribution to the growth of the Shrewsbury office to this point.

“Hugh’s reputation in the Shropshire business community together with his understanding of the business and its culture mean he’s the perfect fit for the Head of Shrewsbury role and we look forward to him leading The Shrewsbury office through our next phase of growth.”

Hugh, who moved to Aaron & Partners after spending many years working for a large legal firm in the East Midlands, is partially deaf in both ears and is a long-term wearer of hearing aids. Over the years he has been very involved in fundraising for hearing loss charity, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People.

Hugh (pictured right) added: “Stuart has achieved so much in this role and has laid firm foundations for future success. Under his leadership, we have grown from three to 38 people in our Shrewsbury office. I’m delighted to take the role on from him and continue to push forward with the development of the Shrewsbury office.”

(L - R): Mathieu Ducry, Anahita Mohammadkhani and Sandra Ochuba, MAC Construction Consultants

MAC Construction Consultants has strengthened its client offering with the appointment of Mathieu Ducry as associate director, architectural designer Anahita Mohammadkhani and project manager Sandra Ochuba.

Joining the firm with immediate effect as an associate director, based out of London, Mathieu brings with him more than 22 years’ experience to the role having worked for a high-profile private sector financial organisation and public sector consultancy firms.

Anahita joins the firm having worked previously as a part II architectural assistant for Fabric Space, and a teaching assistant at the Manchester School of Architecture. In addition to her role at MAC, she is currently studying part-time for her Part III Postgraduate Diploma Professional Practice in Architecture at the University of Westminster.

Sandra joins the firm’s Manchester office as an accomplished project management specialist with over five years professional experience supporting successful delivery of a portfolio of multi-disciplinary projects throughout the UK & Europe.

Commenting on the appointments, MAC Director Nicolas Maari said: “I am thrilled to be able to welcome Mathieu, Anahita and Sandra to the team across our London and Manchester offices. I believe all three will make brilliant additions to MAC.

“Mathieu’s years of experience, at director level, in both the private and public sectors brings beneficial knowledge to the team. I speak on behalf of everyone at MAC when I say we are delighted to have him on board as an associate director.”

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