MOVING ON

PRIVATE PRACTICEPartnershipThere has not been a huge amount of partner activity this week, but international moves, particularly involving Clifford Chance, lead what there has been.

The firm's Paris office has hired finance and capital markets partner Diane de Moy from French firm De Pardieu Brocca Maffei & Leygonie.However, Miroslav Dubovsky, who was head of corporate and corporate finance in Clifford Chance's Prague office, has joined Lovells' office in the city.And commercial litigation partner Jonathon Crook is to leave the magic circle firm's Hong Kong office for Eversheds in Manchester.Also in Hong Kong, DLA has brought in corporate finance specialist Andrew Lui from Denton Wilde Sapte.

But Dentons' Hong Kong office has relocated banking and finance partner Ed Marlow from London, where he headed the private finance initiative group.In the City, Watson Farley & Williams has recruited Philip Mason, legal director at Bovis Homes, to head its property group, taking over from Maria Llewellyn.

Ms Llewellyn, who has led the group since 1986, will continue full-time client work.Davies Arnold Cooper has made up Fiona Gill (product liability and group actions), William Allison (reinsurance and professional indemnity) and Madrid-based Ignacio Figuerol (directors and officers liability insurance).

It now has 46 partners.

Surrey firm Stevens & Bolton has beaten off interest from City firms to land tax and trusts partner Peter Snowden, who was until recently solicitor for the wealth and estate planning services of Union Bancaire Privee.Stockport firm Chafes has made up commercial litigator and head of civil litigation John Perez at the age of 27.

PRIVATE PRACTICEAssociates/AssistantsUS firm Jones Day Reavis & Pogue has recruited a four-member employment team from Hammond Suddards Edge, headed by senior assistant Michelle Haste.

She brings Nicola Whiteley, Emmanuelle Ries and Mandy Perry with her.Buckinghamshire firm Moorcrofts Corporate Law has a new head of employment with the recruitment of James Simpson, who was in-house at 3S Technology as commercial manager and legal adviser.Lots of activity at Reading firm Clarks.

Mark Jones (employment) and Mark Izquierdo (commercial property) have been promoted to associate, while employment lawyers Beverley Green and Christopher Syder have joined from Blaser Mills Winter Taylors in High Wycombe and Truro firm Nalders respectively.

Commercial property lawyer Gillian Rennie has moved from the Southampton office of Shoosmiths.

Newly qualified Francis Mulhern has been kept on and joins the technology team.Laytons has two new assistants for its Guildford office: dispute resolution specialist Catherine McKiernan joins from Streeter Marshall in Croydon, while employment lawyer Joy Hankins, a barrister turned solicitor, moves from Welsh firm Hugh James Ford Simey.In Manchester, Kuit Steinart Levy has brought in corporate associate Rob Simpson from Wacks Caller, while commercial property lawyer Andrea Steventon has crossed the Pennines to join north-west firm Mace & Jones from Keeble Hawson in Sheffield.Fellow Manchester firm Branton Edwards has taken Joanne Keen, who specialises in employers liability claims, from Berrymans Lace Mawer.Eversheds' Birmingham office has boosted its property finance team with ex-Blake Lapthorn lawyer Chris Thomas and Lisa Barratt of Martineau Johnson.Spanish firm Jauss Nadal & Vidal De Llobatera has set up an English desk and recruited to run it dual English and Spanish-qualified Yolanda Lobo, who has worked in London at Bird & Bird and Peters & Peters, but joins from De Haan & Mulder in Barcelona.

OTHERSAndrew Daws, the one-time Denton Hall (as it then was) partner who moved to Ernst & Young with the brief of developing its legal strategy, has joined City firm Arnander Irvine & Zietman as a consultant.

He will have a senior management role, assisting with strategic planning, management and marketing.Michael Gardner, a general litigation partner at Morgan Cole, has moved to niche four-partner London firm Judge Sykes Frixou as a consultant.The London office of US firm Morrison & Foerster has a new consultant (or 'of counsel' as they are called in US firms) in the shape of English-qualified corporate lawyer Neil Foster, who moves from fellow US firm Brobeck Hale & Dorr.Family lawyer Sue Robinson has left Hatcher Rogerson in Shrewsbury and signed up with 'virtual' law practice Woolley & Co, which provides its services through a network of technology linked solicitors working from home around the Midlands.David Higham, former head of litigation at Hampshire-based Blake Lapthorn, has become the firm's first head of professional development and research.Alison Matthews, formerly the Law Society's investment business executive, has joined Irwin Mitchell as its compliance officer to oversee the transition to regulation by the Financial Services Authority later this year.Sir Michael Lyons, who will leave his post as chief executive of Birmingham City Council in October, will then join Wragge & Co as a non-executive director.