header-logo header-logo

30 April 2021
Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
printer mail-detail

Kingsley Napley—two promotions

Double partner promotion in real estate & construction and public law teams

Law firm Kingsley Napley LLP is pleased to announce that Vanessa Rhodes and Nick Wrightson are being promoted to the role of partner in the real estate & construction and public law teams respectively, with effect from 1 May 2021.  

  • Vanessa Rhodes' (pictured) practice spans commercial and residential property. She acts for high-net worth individuals, investors, developers, landlords and tenants on a wider range of property related matters including residential sales and purchases in central London; the acquisition and disposal of residential property developments; commercial lettings; property financing and portfolio management. She will be joining four other partners in Kingsley Napley's real estate & construction team and has worked at the firm for over ten years. 
  • Nick Wrightson specialises in administrative and public law. He acts for prominent private companies, individuals and organisations as well as public bodies – often in contentious, high profile and politically inflected cases. His areas of expertise include judicial review and statutory challenges (particularly in commercial and regulatory contexts); advising on the interpretation of legislation and regulation; representing key participants in major public inquiries and complex inquests; and freedom of information matters. Nick joined the firm in 2017 and is a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings). He becomes the fifth partner in Kingsley Napley’s respected Public Law team. 

Linda Woolley, managing partner of Kingsley Napley, comments: 'I am delighted to welcome Vanessa and Nick to the partnership. They have both made excellent contributions recently to their busy and growing practice areas and their promotions are thoroughly well-deserved.'
 
These promotions bring the total number of partners at the firm to 69 (37 of which are female [54%]). They follow the recent arrival of four lateral hires to the partnership this year (since January 2021)—Peter Metcalfe (real estate & construction); Grant Incles (medical negligence & personal injury); Christina Kelly (corporate & commercial) and Michael Mulligan (dispute resolution). 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nick Vernon, Walkers Bermuda

NLJ Career Profile: Nick Vernon, Walkers Bermuda

Nick Vernon of Walkers on swapping Birmingham for Bermuda and building an employment practice by the sea

Bird & Bird—Christian Bartsch

Bird & Bird—Christian Bartsch

Global firm re-elects CEO for second term

Fletchers Group—Miriam Hall

Fletchers Group—Miriam Hall

Business appoints managing director of operational excellence

NEWS

From blockbuster judgments to procedural shake-ups, the courts are busy reshaping litigation practice. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School hails the Court of Appeal's 'exquisite judgment’ in Mazur restoring the role of supervised non-qualified staff, and highlights a ‘mammoth’ damages ruling likened to War and Peace, alongside guidance on medical reporting fees, where a pragmatic 25% uplift was imposed

Momentum is building behind proposals to restrict children’s access to social media—but the legal and practical challenges are formidable. In NLJ this week, Nick Smallwood of Mills & Reeve examines global moves, including Australia’s under-16 ban and the UK's consultation
Reforms designed to rebalance landlord-tenant relations may instead penalise leaseholders themselves. In this week's NLJ, Mike Somekh of The Freehold Collective warns that the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 risks creating an ‘underclass’ of resident-controlled freehold companies
Timing is everything—and the Court of Appeal has delivered clarity on when proceedings are ‘brought’. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ, Stephen Gold explains that a claim is issued for limitation purposes when the claim form is delivered to the court, even if fees are underpaid
The traditional ‘single, intensive day’ of financial dispute resolution (FDR) may be due for a rethink. Writing in NLJ this week, Rachel Frost-Smith and Lauren Guiler of Birketts propose a ‘split FDR’ model, separating judicial evaluation from negotiation
back-to-top-scroll