Rapleys has bolstered its commercial team with three new hires from Alison Young.
Pippa Harrison has joined the business as head of hospitality, Sam Gough has joined as associate partner and Imogen Bellfield has joined Rapleys as senior surveyor.
Gough, who has more then seven years’ experience in transactions and advisory was an associate at AY, specialising in hotels as part of the wider capital markets group. Bellfield has two years of experience of the hotel market, both in advisory and capital markets.
Daniel Cook, head of commercial at Rapleys, said: “Sam and Imogen and Pippa are fantastic additions to our commercial division, building on our recent diversification with strong retail and office teams serving a broad client base alongside our existing market leading automotive, roadside and future fuels team.
“We are extremely happy and excited to have their specialist hospitality and operational real estate expertise within the business and to have them on board as part of the wider commercial team where we can collaborate across the sectors and divisions to enhance our services offered to our clients. We will continue to strengthen our position with specialist, experienced teams, and services in line with our ongoing strategic growth plan over the coming months, both for commercial and the other divisions within Rapleys.”
Harrison added: “I am delighted to welcome Sam and Imogen to Rapleys to help me build the hospitality team, having worked closely together on supporting clients on investment transactions, development, and strategic advisory in our former roles with great success. Rapleys is incredibly supportive of embedding our capital markets team within both the commercial division and wider business and continuing to explore further opportunities to help deliver specialist advice in Hospitality and also the wider operational real estate sector as part of a joined-up approach.”
