MOVING ON ; ; ;PRIVATE PRACTICE ;Partnership ;A busy week all over the country and all over the world for English firms.

;Starting in the City, Denton Wilde Sapte has a new energy partner, David Birchall, who joins from Herbert Smith.

;Tarlo Lyons is the latest to pick up from the dissolving Barnett Alexander Chart, taking managing partner and dispute resolution partner Peter Moody and his team.

;Withers has boosted its international private client group with former Dechert partner Ian Marsh.

;Television, film and multi-media lawyer Ruth Gladwin, who left Finers Stephens Innocent earlier this year, has set up as a sole practitioner in her back bedroom.

;Outside of London, Marlow, Buckinghamshire firm Gordons have made up Bob Bhalla (volume remortgaging) and Susannah Brown (banking/commercial property) as its sixth and seventh partners.

;Cambridge firm Taylor Vinters has launched a family and matrimonial service with the appointment of former Mills & Reeve partner Jackie Wells.

;In Nottingham, Masser & Co has brought in commercial partner Peter Johnson from Nelsons, while licensing specialists Poppleston Allen have made up Lisa Sharkey to partner.

;North-west firm Davies Wallis Foyster has recruited its 50th partner, dispute resolution lawyer Peter Moore from Peter Rickson & Partners in Manchester.

;Martin McKervey, former head of construction at Sheffield firm Russell & Creswick, has joined Nabarro Nathansons Sheffield office as head of construction litigation (north).

;North-east firm Crutes has promoted professional indemnity lawyer Andrea Ward and insurance litigator Rod Searl to partner.

;Two new senior partners in the south-west: former managing partner Richard Challands has taken the step up at Bond Pearce in succession to Nigel Theyer, who has returned to his commercial property practice at the end of his four years in charge; and company/commercial lawyer Richard Wynn-Jones is to take over as senior partner of Burges Salmon in Bristol on 1 May 2001 when David Marshs term as senior and managing partner ends.

Banking specialist Guy Stobart is to become managing partner once more, having held the role from 1995-99.

;Robert Wilson has taken over as senior partner at City firm Holman Fenwick & Willan following the retirement of Archie Bishop.

;Ahead of the merger between Linklaters and German firm Oppenhoff & Rdler next month, the two firms have jointly made up seven new partners in Germany, taking the total number of partners at the two firms to 344 (259 Linklaters and 84 Oppenhoffs).

;Allen & Overy has doubled the size of its Bangkok office with the recruitment of four partners from Thailand: Marcus Collins, Dumnern Subpaisarn, Arunee Mahathorn and their former colleague Orawan Tejapaibul, who moved to become general counsel at Standard Chartered Bank Bangkok.

The firm has also added corporate partner Pieter Riemer to its Amsterdam office.

He joins from Trenit van Doorne.

;The Hong Kong office of Surrey-based construction firm Shadbolt & Co has made up to partner dual Hong Kong/English qualified construction and engineering lawyer Peter Turner.

; ;PRIVATE PRACTICE ;Associates/ ;Assistants ;Joining Peter Moody at Tarlo Lyons (see above) is his team of litigation assistants from Barnett Alexander Chart: Richard Stader, Emma Stockdale and Ashkhan Candey.

;Family assistant Fiona McLeman has moved from Mills & Reeve to Taylor Vinters with Jackie Wells (see below).

;A lot of activity in the north-west: Manchester firm Cobbetts has recruited Joanna Dean (commercial litigation and insolvency) from Peter Rickson & Partners and Louise Oldfield (private client) from Addleshaw Booth & Co.

Fellow Manchester firm Donns has promoted Gill Edwards, a nurse turned clinical negligence solicitor, and personal injury lawyer Amanda Anson to associates.

;As well as 50 partners, north-west firm Davies Wallis Foyster has 10 new assistants, including two, Ben Goodman (intellectual property) and Beccy Scott (insurance), who have just qualified with the firm.

The others are: ;- barrister Marc Asquith (insurance); ;- Stephen Foster (employment) from Davies Arnold Cooper; ;- Helen Fyles (dispute resolution) from Morgan Cole; ;- Martin Gray (insolvency) from Wacks Caller; ;- Mike Jones (corporate) from Gorvin Smith Fort; ;- Steve Lynes (employment) from DLA; ;- Kate Sherville-Payne (insurance) from CMS Cameron McKenna; and ;- Jim Truscott (corporate) from Laytons.

;West London firm Turbervilles with Nelson Cuff has two new property development assistants for its Harrow office: John Brand, formerly a partner at Ealing firm Prince Evans, and Marilyn Hobbs, who was in-house at developer Prowting.

;Renouf & Co, a Brussels-based niche European law firm run by English solicitor Michael Renouf, has appointed Spanish lawyer Monica Alfaro who is returning from maternity leave.

; ;OTHER ;As well as new partners in Germany, Linklaters & Alliance has a new head of EU and competition in Italy, Alberto Pera, who was secretary-general of the Italian Antitrust Authority for a decade.

Although head of the department, he is technically a consultant.