Moving On

Private PracticePartnership Not for the first time in their lives, twin sisters Anna and Della Burnside have a double celebration after both achieved partnerships at their respective firms.

Anna has been made up in the private client department of Penningtons' Newbury office, while Della, an intellectual property litigator, has been promoted in Osborne Clarke's London office.

The 31-year-olds received identical A-level grades in the same subjects, matching the feat in their law degrees and at law school.

Elsewhere, leading personal injury solicitor Mark Harvey, secretary of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, leads the way this week with his move from Swansea's Smith Llewelyn Partnership to the Cardiff office of top Welsh firm Hugh James Ford Simey.

Mr Harvey worked closely with Hugh James on the Gerona air crash litigation.Across the Severn, Clarke Willmott & Clarke's Bristol office has brought in sports lawyer Ian Smith from Osborne Clarke's London office.

He drafted the regulations to help prevent match-fixing in cricket and will head Clarke's sports team with David Powell, who is best known for his rugby work.

West country firm Bevan Ashford now has 81 partners with two recruits - Chris Wade (private finance initiative) from Masons and Gordon Bon (insolvency) from Laytons - and two promotions in the property department, Alison Buckingham and Ken Mortimer.

Assistant Claire Cole is moving with Mr Bon.Plymouth firm Gill Akaster now has 13 partners after appointing family lawyer Martin Leech from Goldbergs.Top news in the City is the election of Anthony Cann as senior partner at Linklaters from 1 September.

The former head of its corporate department will succeed Charles Allen-Jones, who is retiring after 37 years with the firm.

Having lost its private client team to Farrer & Co (see page 8), Nabarro Nathanson has suffered the further blow of tax partner Huw Witty - head of its asset leasing group - exiting to join Richards Butler.

Nicholson Graham & Jones has hired non-contentious insolvency and corporate partner Robin Tutty from Fox Williams.

He will jointly head the insolvency group with litigator Tony Griffiths as fellow partner Paul Oughton, who was the day-to-day group leader, is leaving later in the year 'to seek a new challenge'.Two international swoops for Denton Wilde Sapte.

Its Moscow office has been boosted by Daniel Marti, who started Andersen Legal's Moscow operation.

Back in London, the firm has been joined by Indian-qualified DK Singh, responsible for Hammond Suddards Edge's India business group.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has added to its US securities capability with Ken Martin, who was regional head of Goldman Sachs' special execution group in Europe.US firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher now has ten partners in London after appointing dual UK/Canadian-qualified corporate partner Wayne McArdle - one-time chief counsel for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - from fellow US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker.Shipping litigator Ben Browne has left Clyde & Co to become a partner at niche shipping and commercial firm Shaw & Croft.Former barrister John Hayes, who joined Bracher Rawlins to build the employment department three years ago, has become the firm's sixth partner.Knightsbridge firm Pemberton Greenish has recruited Laura Blackwell as a partner for its residential estate property department.

She joins from Boodle Hatfield.

Hammond Suddards Edge has received a major boost in Manchester by luring top property partner Stephen Goodman from Halliwell Landau.

Private finance initiative partner Russell Jarvis has crossed the Pennines from the Leeds office of Berrymans Lace Mawer to Manchester firm Cobbetts.Back in Leeds, specialist travel firm Mason Bond has made up Sarah Lacy as its sixth partner.

Private PracticeAssociates/assistantsClinical negligence specialist Gill Edwards, also a registered nurse, has moved across Manchester from Donns to Pannone & Partners.Leeds-based private client firm Wrigleys has appointed pensions lawyer Leigh Holmes as a solicitor from Eversheds, where he was a senior solicitor.

Corporate lawyer Mark Henry is making the trek from Bond Pearce in Exeter to Birketts in Ipswich.In the City, Kemp & Co has recruited employment lawyer Michael McCartney from Dawson & Co.Nicholas Davies has joined Rosenblatt's property department from Kennedys.Niche media firm McNieve has tempted advertising and technology lawyer Rupesh Chandrani from Theodore Goddard, where he was an associate.Leaving the City is commercial property lawyer Stephen Ball, who has joined Surrey firm Stevens & Bolton from Lovells.