Moving on - Partnership Special

London

Three in-house lawyers going into private practice lead the way this week.

Mark Evans, vice-president and general counsel at Enron Europe, has secured a more permanent future by joining Hammond Suddards Edge as an energy partner from next month.

John Holden Ross, legal director of the private finance division at construction company Carillion, has joined Trowers & Hamlins.

Adosh Chatrath, who was head of legal at venture capital fund Antfactory, is now a corporate partner at Beaumont & Son.

The biggest law firm move this week is top IT partner Christopher Millard, whose career-long association with Clifford Chance has ended with a move to Linklaters.

Newly merged Weightman Vizards has brought in professional indemnity partner John Bennett from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.

More partners for Tarlo Lyons after recruiting two last week from Vizards Wyeth.

Dr Laetitia Moloney (commercial technology) joins from US firm Coudert Brothers, while Richard Stader (dispute resolution) has been promoted.

Lewis Silkin has a new head of employee benefits: Guy Abbiss from KLegal.

Dawsons (formerly Dawson & Co) has recruited corporate/ commercial lawyer Andrew Greenfield from Howard Kennedy and family specialist Suzanne Kingston from Faulkners in Oxford.

Halliwell Landau's London office has added commercial property partner Nichola Armstrong from Finers Stephens Innocent.

Theodore Goddard has captured Keir Barrie, ex-managing partner and head of private equity in the London office of US firm Buchanan Ingersoll.

It has also made up Andrew Rosling (corporate), Mark McQuillan (employment), Jonathan Rickard (property) and Susannah Sheppard (competition).

Lawrence Graham has recruited Jonathan Sellors, who specialises in 'soft' intellectual property and digital media work, from The Simkins Partnership, and made up Susan Wilson (property litigation) and Angela Hayes (financial services regulation).

It now has 83 partners.

South London legal aid firm Fisher Meredith has two new crime partners: Look Chih Wang comes from Lewis Nedas and Joan Mitchell has been promoted.

North-west London legal aid firm Gupta & Partners has been taken over by four solicitors: Ranjan Herath, Gavyn Simpson, Stephen Down and Elvin Blades.

On the promotion front, eight new partners at Ashurst Morris Crisp takes it to 137 partners.

The four in London are Anthony Clare (corporate), Stephen Clark (international finance), Vivienne de Chermont (financial institutions, products and services) and Adrian Welsh (litigation).

Taylor Joynson Garrett has 96 partners after making up five: Richard Clifton (corporate), Nick Moser (insolvency), Niri Shanmuganathan (intellectual property), Neil Smith (pensions), Rob Thompson (commercial property).

Crime and white-collar fraud firm Burton Copeland has 11 partners after promoting Rachel Hubbard and Samantha Moore.

Regional

In the south-west, Malcolm Gilbert, former head of legal at Plymouth City Council, has joined Bevan Ashford as head of the public sector department.

Paul Hardman has left Thring Townsend to become head of corporate/commercial in the Bristol office of Clarke Willmott & Clarke.

After 27 years as a sole practitioner, Hemel Hempstead lawyer Peter Keer-Keer of Keer-Keer & Co has made up two partners: Laura Atkinson (family) and Lionel Turner (family/personal injury).

Davies Lavery's Birmingham office has recruited insurance lawyer Denny Payton from Eversheds.

Nottingham-based niche licensing firm Poppleston Allen has brought in Paddy Whur from Addleshaw Booth & Co to lead its gaming and betting practice.

Personal injury specialist Adrienne de Vos has swapped Slater Heelis Collier Littler in Manchester for Donns.

David Johnson and Dominic Timmons have left Manchester firm James Chapman & Co to open their own personal injury firm in Bolton, The Johnson Timmons Partnership.

On the promotion front, TG Baynes in Kent has 16 partners after making up Patricia Farley (clinical negligence/personal injury), Tamara Gamman (personal injury) and Natalie Skinner (conveyancing).

Fellow Kent firm Furley Page has made up employment lawyer Andrew Masters as its 19th partner.

Surrey firm Heald Nickinson has promoted litigator Dermot Flynn.

Barbara Corbett (family) and Michael Dibben (residential conveyancing) have stepped up at Brethertons of Northamptonshire.

In Hereford, probate lawyer Patricia King has moved up at Beaumonts.

Shropshire firm Lanyon Bowdler has made up Jo Davies, head of crime in its Telford office.

Two new clinical negligence partners at specialist Cheshire firm Alexander Harris: Christian Beadell and Auriana Griffiths, who at 27 is its youngest partner.

International

Hammond Suddards Edge's new Hong Kong office - Li Brandt & Co - has scooped up construction partner Helen Kenyon from CMS Cameron McKenna.

Allen & Overy has a new head of German tax after recruiting Eugen Bogenschtz to its Frankfurt office from Haarmann Hemmelrath.

In Munich, Norton Rose has appointed asset finance and leasing expert Ralf Springer, formerly general counsel at KG Allgemeine Leasing.

Management

Paul Lee has been re-elected unopposed as senior partner of Addleshaw Booth & Co for an as-yet undecided term.

Two new managing partners for the London offices of US firms: Kenneth MacRitchie at Shearman & Sterling, and Andrew Sommer at Debevoise & Plimpton.