Lawyers promoted at Boyes Turner

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Peter Davison

Thames Valley law firm Boyes Turner has promoted five lawyers. The promotions to partner and senior associate come across the Reading-based business in its commercial property, dispute resolution, court of protection, community care and development teams.

Commercial property specialist Philip Jacques (inset) has been promoted to partner. Philip specialises in landlord and tenant work.

Rachel Brown (top left), a specialist in cross-border disputes, has been promoted to senior associate in the dispute resolution team.

In the Court of Protection team, Sue Clark (top right) becomes a senior associate. Sue’s work in the Court of Protection team sees her support vulnerable clients and their families.

James Pantling-Skeet (bottom left)has been promoted to senior associate, community care. James has been ranked by Chambers & Partners as an ‘Associate to Watch’ for two consecutive years.

In the development & house building team, Steph Richards (bottom right) has been promoted to senior associate. Steph specialises in acting for developers, promoters, landowners, land traders and funders in connection with development and land transactions and secured funding arrangements.

Boyes Turner’s managing partner Jonathan Grigg said: “These five lawyers are a brilliant group of people, doing demanding work in their specialist areas. They thoroughly deserve their success, and I look forward to what comes next for all of them.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.