PRIVATE PRACTICEPartnershipIt has been a busy week, particularly outside London, with international firms moving people around their international offices.But City moves continue.

Richards Butler has appointed a new managing partner, commercial disputes head Roger Parker, following the resignation of non-lawyer chief executive Chris Schulten.Gouldens has recruited insolvency practitioner Adrian Owen from Freshfields.Two partners are leaving Stephenson Harwood's Hong Kong office: Simmons & Simmons has picked up a corporate finance partner Richard McKeown, while corporate partner Peter Bradley joins KPMG's associated law firm Klegal.Klegal in London has recruited corporate partner Moray Macpherson from Bond Pearce's Southampton office.Ernst & Young's associated law firm, Tite & Lewis, has recruited finance partner Tamara Box from the London office of US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.Norton Rose has lured two new pensions partners, Peter Ford and Lesley Browning, from Nabarro Nathanson to co-head the pensions department when head Stuart Lippiatt retires.

Property partner Tom Symes is going in-house to property and finance group Mill Group, where he will be commercial director.Elsewhere in London, Magrath & Co has promoted two partners, Ben Sheldrick and Shamila Mehta, in its commercial immigration department.

Bevan Ashford has recruited commercial and property partner John Chapman from Capsticks.Campbell Hooper has brought its partners to 17 by making made up three senior assistants: Graham Atkins (media and new media litigation), Stuart Jordan (construction) and Bryan Rickman (mergers and acquisitions).Birmingham firm Martineau Johnson has recruited banking and corporate partner Hugh Edmunds from Hammond Suddards Edge for its new London office.

The firm is also boosting its Birmingham base with two partnership promotions: Stuart Farr in commercial disputes and Simon Laight in pensions.Former Berrymans Lace Mawer managing partner Aidan Wilcox has left to join Cheshire firm Lyons Wilson as its personal injury head.Addleshaw Booth & Co has taken Michael Blackburne, a senior equity partner at Berwin Leighton, to lead a construction litigation drive from its London office.

But back home in Manchester, Addleshaws has lost property partner Alan Walker to rival Cobbetts.Also in Manchester firm Wacks Caller has added two corporate partners from Hill Dickinson, Andrew Smithson and Paul Stedman.

Kuit Steinart Levy has appointed head of corporate Robert Levy as its first executive partner.

Jonathan Marks remains as managing partner.Leigh Day & Co's personal injury (PI) head Jenny Kennedy has joined the London office of Cheshire-based health litigation firm Alexander Harris in the same role.Former Roythorne & Co partner Nigel Davis, who chairs the Agricultural Law Association, has set up as a sole practitioner advising farmers and other rural dwellers.

Private practiceAssociates/AssistantsIt is not just at partner-level that the Manchester recruitment scene is busy.Kuit Steinart Levy has brought in Adrian Leslie from DLA's Liverpool office as a corporate associate.

Stephen Ellis is joining the firm as a commercial property assistant from fellow Mancunian firm Betesh Fox & Co.

Kuits has also made trainees Helen Ferguson and Jan Winstanley assistants in the corporate department.

Manchester-based Lopian Wagner has also recruited three assistants.

PI associate Carin Bradley moves from Dootson Eckersley Hope, while PI lawyer Louise Turner and housing disrepair specialist Vicki Johnson joined from Anthony Hodari & Co.Yorkshire firm The Max Gold Partnership has recruited assistant solicitor Amanda de Winter from Hull-based Rollit Farrell & Bladon to launch an employment department.

City firm Simmons & Simmons has sent two corporate finance assistant solicitors, Paul Browne and Harriet Unger, from London to Hong Kong.

They will join Francis Nwokedi, former head of Asia-Pacific securitisation at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi.Staying in London, Wallace & Partners has three new assistant solicitors.

Property litigator Simon Jones moves from Lee & Pembertons and commercial property lawyer Rosalind Davis from Taylor Joynson Garrett.

Newly qualified Amber Blake joins the corporate department.US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has set up a German desk in its London office with the recruitment of senior associate Stefan Schmitz, former general counsel at Munich digital TV broadcaster Premiere Medien.

OtherNews International has promoted corporate counsel Fiona Richards to the position of corporate legal affairs manager.Burton Copeland partner Mark Haslam has been elected president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association.

June Venters of Venters Reynolds takes over as vice-president and Peter Binning of Peters & Peters has become treasurer.Liverpool-based national insurance firm Weightmans has recruited Tony Cannon to the new position of finance director from US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, where he headed the London finance operation.London firm Radcliffes has recruited Vincent Denham, chief executive of St Philip's Chambers in Birmingham, as its first chief executive.