MOVING ON

Private PracticePartnershipsThree of the five magic circle firms head the list this week with a deluge of partnership appointments.Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced the appointment of 43 partners worldwide, taking the firms partnerships to 474.

The 12 City-based appointments are: l Competition and trade Nicholas French; l Corporate David Higgins, Martin Nelson-Jones, Michael Raffan, Claire Wills and James Woods; l Dispute resolution Jonathan Rawlings; l Finance Peter Hall, Rex Rosales; l IP/IT Chris Forsyth;l Real estate Ursula Harriss; and l Tax Jonathan Cooklin.The addition of six partners at Slaughter and May has upped its total to 121: David Bicknell (finance), Charles Cameron (pensions and employment), Cathy Connolly (IP/IT), Padraig Cronin (corporate), and Bertrand Louveaux and Michael Rowe (both competition).

Linklaters has announced 38 partners worldwide, taking its total to 393.

The 23 London appointments are: l Corporate Duncan Barber, Roger Barron, Aedemar Comiskey, Clodagh Hayes, Jon Hayes and Jonathon de Lance Holmes;l Capital markets Carson Walsh;l Real estate Antonia Musgrove, Anne Byrne and Jonathan Evans;l Banking Trevor Clark and Stuart Thomas; l Employee incentives Gillian Chapman; l Restructuring & insolvency Rebecca Jarvis; l Tax Jan Birtwell; l Litigation James Gardner and Philip Parish;l IP Benedict Bird and Roland Mallinson;l Pensions Mark Blyth;l IT and communications Graeme Maguire; l Projects Stuart Rowson; and, l Employment Jean Lovett.Gianni Origoni & Partners, the Italian member of Linklaters & Alliance, has acquired three new partners.

Two of these, Eugenio Grippo and Stefano Peroni, have the Milan office of Simmons & Simmons (which practises in Italy as Simmons & Simmons Grippo), which they founded, and are joined by a further 12 lawyers.

Meanwhile, tax partner Ugo Tribulato has joined from top local firm Chiomenti.Back in the UK, south-west firm Bond Pearce has promoted six associates to partner, taking its total to 53: Alison Bell (employment), Lea Brocklebank (insurance), Michael Gunn (commercial dispute resolution), Stephen Pierce (corporate), James Robins (insurance) and Tony Woodward (financial services).

Staying in the west country, Paul Woods has become senior partner at Plymouth firm Wolferstans, replacing the retiring David Gabbitass.Peter Brooks has been appointed a partner at Bristol-based Bevans.

He is to become head of the conveyancing department, which he has spent the past few years developing.

In London, US firm Dorsey & Whitney has recruited capital markets partner John Basnage from Freshfields.The City office of Beachcroft Wansbroughs has scooped up property lawyer Peter Richardson, the former London managing partner of Manchester-based Halliwell Landau.Insurance and reinsurance specialist Bill Jarvis is taking his team from Hextall Erskine to become a partner in Elborne Mitchell.There are two more intellectual property partners at Bristows, where Alastair McCulloch and Ralph Cox have been promoted.City firm Shaw & Croft has promoted Michael Moon to partner in its dry shipping group.

Savio DCosta has left Park Nelson to become a partner in the property and construction group of Maxwell Batley, where he will be joined by former barrister Alistair Henry.

Ipswich has a new specialist employment firm: Quantrills is headed by Simon Quantrill, previously a partner at Chelmsford practice Wollastons.

Nottingham-based Browne Jacobson has three newly promoted partners, talking its total to 48.

Adrian Shardlow and ChrisWebb-Jenkins specialise in defendant personal injury work, while Sharon Jones is a company/commercial lawyer.North Cheshire firm Forshaws has appointed family lawyer Ruth Hetherington as a partner.

In the north-east, Dickinson Dees has increased its partnership to 57 with five promotions: Iain Greenshields (projects), Mark Pearce (IP), David Rewcastle (corporate), Jeremy Smith (corporate tax) and Neil Warwick (competition).

Private PracticeAssociates/Assistants Moving with Bill Jarvis from Hextall Erskine to Elborne Mitchell are insurance lawyers Paul Cha and Deanne Wood.Also in the City, Nicholas Johnson has been appointed a senior solicitor at Sinclair Roche & Temperley.

He joins from being head of the Prague office and head of the European law department at TGC International.Strengthening its employment law team is Leeds firm Lupton Fawcett.

Doug Hart has become assistant solicitor, leaving Nabarro Nathanson, while Ben Wood has been promoted to associate.

Across the Pennines, Manchester firm Olliers has recruited Mark Carter as a senior assistant solicitor.

A specialist in fraud and white-collar crime, he moves across the city from Tranters.

Brobeck Hale and Dorr, the only US firm with a UK office outside London, has added David Andrews to its human resources department in Oxford.

He joins as an associate from City firm Lawrence Graham.Aylesbury-based Blaser Mills Winter Taylors has made Jeanette Redway-Harris an associate solicitor in its family department.

She joins from Labrum Miller in St Albans.There are four new property solicitors at Bristol firm Burroughs Day.

Luke Weldon joins from City firm Graham Harvey to head the property dispute team, while both Martin Crighton (residential conveyancing) and Caron Chappell (private client and conveyancing) join from fellow Bristol firm Wards.

Hannah Suggett joins the commercial property department after completing her training with Needham & James in Stratford.Another Stratford-based firm, virtual practice Woolley & Co, has appointed family barrister Paul Rippon to act as a self-employed consultant.