Q4 Property and Built Environment Economic Update and festive drinks

Jeremy started his career in taxation, working for three of the "Big Four" accountancy firms.
His firm, Primondell, is a specialist consultancy advising on taxation, share schemes and rewards.
The company advises FTSE companies on communication matters.

Rufus Ballaster is the senior partner of Carter Lemon Camerons LLP’s having spent most of his career it its commercial property team, and is a recognised authority on landlord and tenant issues. His detailed technical legal knowledge and ability to crunch numbers are great assets both transactionally and withing the firm. Increasingly he nurtures relationships with lender and investor clients which often require him to travel through Asia for face to face contact. One of Rufus’s career highlights was the purchase by an off-shore company of a City office block let to a blue chip investment bank at a price exceeding £300 million.

Rufus combines client focused views of legal issues with more holistic ones. This is clearly visible from his writing (having contributed to many journals and been a co-author of the Landlord and Tenant Factbook) and from his lectures, leading seminars on commercial property issues and being on panels with major course providers. Rufus was educated at Reading School, Wadham College Oxford and Chester College of Law, qualifying as a solicitor in 1988.

In a career spanning over 15 years in financial services, Scott joined the Hampshire Trust Bank in December 2021, tasked with working alongside our senior stakeholders to grow the profile and proposition of the Banks Development Finance products within the developer market across England and Wales, working together with intermediaries HTB has delivered some uniquely structured facilities to clients in the most challenging of times.