[New] Ampa announces West Mids promotions

Legal and professional services group Ampa has announced promotions in the West Midlands across its house of brands including Shakespeare Martineau and Marrons.

Promoted to associate within Shakespeare Martineau is Elaine Hart, Fatema Miah and Victoria Kirkpatrick.

Elaine, associate within the private client team in Solihull, is an expert in probate matters including inheritance tax bearing estates.

Fatema is an experienced real estate lawyer advising on a range of high value and complex transactions. She specialises is Islamic finance and provides a professional and knowledgeable service to real estate finance clients, while Victoria deals with a wide range of commercial disputes including contractual, shareholder and partnership disputes, both at the Birmingham hub.

Planning experts Sachin Parmar and Alasdair Thorne, who work within Ampa’s non-legal planning, design and development consultancy brand Marrons, have been promoted to planning director and associate director respectively.

Sachin, who also recently supported the set-up of Marrons’ Birmingham base, will be responsible for driving the growth of the Birmingham hub, supported by Alasdair. They will continue to support clients with complex planning applications and appeals, offering expert planning advice and formulating strategies that ensure development proposals have the best possible chance of obtaining planning permission.

Joanna Deffley, West Midlands regional head for Shakespeare Martineau, said: “It’s really important to our brands that we retain talent and empower our people to develop at a pace that suits them.

“Recently we have updated our promotions process, offering more opportunities within the year for people to take on greater responsibility and receive the recognition they deserve. Congratulations to all our people who have been promoted.”

All brands across Ampa are recruiting lateral hires and teams.