Montagu Evans has appointed Victoria Boateng, previously head of rating at Allsop, as a new partner in its rating team.
Boateng (pictured) also previously worked with Westminster City Council and other central London billing authorities, including a decade as the prosecuting court officer in liability order hearings for a number of London boroughs.
She began her career in private practice in 2012, when she joined Allsop as an associate. She became a partner there in 2017, before her promotion to head of rating last year.
During this time she focused on landlord work, including large-scale portfolio management and advisory activity incorporating appeal work stretching to the Upper Tribunal, and developed rate management solutions for a number of major property owners.
She has worked on major schemes in London including Angel Court and Gresham St Pauls in EC2, White Collar Factory in EC1, 25 Cabot Square in E14, the Brunel Building in W2 and the former BBC Television Centre and White City Place in W12.
She also advised on around £325m of rateable value for clients including ABP, BMO, Capital REP, Columbia Pictures and Sony Entertainment, Derwent London, the Premier League, Hines, Mapps, Max Barney Estate, MHA, Mitsubishi Estates, Mizuho and Stanhope.
Boateng co-founded Women@Allsop, a focus group that later became a diversity and inclusivity group centred on cultural change. Additionally, she sits on the BPF’s rating committee.
Josh Myerson, partner at Montagu Evans and head of its rating team, said: “As the market is facing unprecedented challenges and businesses are under growing pressure, people like Victoria come into their own.
“With experience of five rating lists and a track record of complex negotiations, she has proven many times how to turn rapidly changing commercial environments to her clients’ advantage and will be an enormous asset to our growing team as we move towards the next revaluation.”
The news comes after Myerson became president of the Rating Surveyors’ Association in November.
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