This week's London appointments: Featuring Simpson Millar, Your Tribe & CPP

This week’s round up of London appointments features Simpson Millar, Your Tribe & CPP. Read on to find out more…

Six appointments, Simpson Millar

Law firm Simpson Millar has welcomed experienced Solicitor, Rachel Scales, and five new Paralegals to its award winning, national Education Law team.

Rachel has more than 10 years’ legal experience and previously owned her own business working as a freelance solicitor specialising in SEN. She joins the firm’s London-based team where she will support clients working across a range of education law cases.

As part of the continued expansion Simpson Millar’s Education Law department, which forms part of the firm’s wider Public Law division, the team has also welcomed five new Paralegals, including Shea Kelly, Emily Chalk, Clara Jenkins, Mia Cappabianca and Elena Funnell, all of whom will be based out of the firm’s London office.

Sarah Woosey, a Partner within the team, welcomed the new arrivals, saying that their ‘experience and expertise’ would allow the firm to take on more cases, and support more families with ‘urgent and often distressing’ matters relating to accessing education.

Sarah Woosey, added: “It is an honour to welcome all six of our new starters to the team, all of whom bring with them a real passion and commitment to supporting families to access the right education and support needed for their loved ones.”

Duncan Palmer, Your Tribe

Premium London student accommodation developer Your Tribe has appointed Duncan Palmer as the new director of student accommodation following £29.6m recent funding from Paragon Bank for their upcoming Old Kent Road development and as the company prepares to launch their first live development on Ilderton Road this Autumn.

Your Tribe are an all-inclusive student accommodation developer who pride themselves on creating five star places to fit the student lifestyle. All Your Tribe developments are designed for community style living which provides advanced well-being for students’ first experiences living away from home.

At Your Tribe Duncan’s role will be to enhance the standard of residential student accommodation and communal facilities to ensure its ‘Best in Class’ to meet the changing expectations of students – re-defining what student living means.

Duncan will work with university partners to enable open and transparent dialogue in order to create truly exceptional accommodation that delivers the best for students and universities. Duncan will ensure the services provided by Your Tribe meet high standards focused around well-being and community living, ensuring anyone who lives in a Your Tribe development thoroughly enjoys their time.

Duncan Palmer, director For student accommodation at Your Tribe says: “I am delighted to begin my role at Your Tribe at such an exciting time for the business.

“Our recent successful finance package provided to us by Paragon Bank for our Old Kent Road development is just the start of the exciting investments and student living opportunities to come ahead of the highly anticipated launch of our new Ilderton Road development at the end of this year, meaning we are well on our way to changing the face of student living.”

Richard Wright, CPP

Richard Wright, Director at UK property consultancy Commercial Property Partners Ltd (CPP) has become a Shareholder at the firm.

Since joining CPP, Wright has concluded over £1bn investment transactions alongside fellow directors, including the £98m acquisition of a Sainsburys distribution unit in Tamworth last year.

Wright will continue to lead and expand the national capitals market remit in his new position, focusing on the Logistics and MLI markets. Wright recently concluded deals with a number of key clients including Cabot, ARA Dunedin, Columbia Threadneedle, Clearbell, Industrials REIT, Vengrove and Railpen.

Commenting on the announcement, Wright said: “CPP offers a highly entrepreneurial and industrial focused firm, which I am proud to be part of. I am excited about the ongoing development and ambitious growth aspirations of CPP over the coming years in my new role as Equity Director, spearheading our capitals market offering.”

Roger Haworth, co-founder of CPP, commented: “Richard’s experience has been instrumental to the success of CPP’s national footprint over the past few years. Richard’s move to Equity Director is reflective of the growing ambition at CPP, building on our work and accomplishments to date.”

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