Moving On

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

City firm Lewis Silkin leads the way this week, with the promotion of four partners bringing the tally to 37.

Gareth Brahams (employment), Helen Emly (corporate), Dominic Farnsworth (intellectual property and advertising) and Sally Johnson (commercial litigation) are all made up from senior associates.

Howard Kennedy now has 45 partners after making up media and entertainment lawyers Paul Miller and Leighton Lloyd, along with company and commercial specialist Hakan Kousetta.

There are 14 partners at Rooks Rider after the promotion of Clare Archer (private client) and Anthony Shalet (commercial property).

Highest-profile recruit of the week is Peter Kavanagh, the former managing partner of Theodore Goddard, who has joined US firm Hunton & Williams as a senior corporate partner.

The London branch of Bristol-based Osborne Clarke has scored a coup by bringing in Adrian Bott, formerly head of corporate at Olswang, as a partner.

Syndicated lending specialist Isaac Felberbaum has left Allen & Overy to become partner at Denton Wilde Sapte, bringing the banking and finance team up to 34 partners.

Home counties firm Blaser Mills now has 13 partners with the promotion of four associates: Magda Bennett and Darren Rogers (criminal) join Salima Manji and Seema Vyas (residential property).

Three new partners for midlands firm Browne Jacobson take its total to 45.

In the main Nottingham office, Mark Aldrich (head of the property litigation unit) and defendant insurance expert Kay Sudbury take the step up, as does the head of insurance in the London office, David Maggs.

Manchester firm Wacks Caller has recruited Gareth Dodds from DLA as an insolvency and corporate recovery partner.

A practice has been set up in Yorkshire by Andrew Worger, formerly a partner at Bradford firm Kennington Underwood Armstrong, and Nicholas Howcroft, previously a partner at Waddington Howcroft in Keighley.

Bingley-based Worger Howcroft will be a general practice.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

It is all happening in the north-west this week.

Halliwell Landau has recruited IT associate Peter Budd from Masons.

Family solicitor Tricia Robinson has joined Laytons' Manchester office from that of Mace & Jones, which in turn is strengthened by Sarah Walton qualifying into its commercial department.

Well-known Manchester claimant firm Amelans has promoted solicitor Nick Upright to head the employers' liability team and taken on newly qualified Kerry Millward in its road traffic department.

Bolton-based Keoghs has promoted associate Rachel Senior to head of property in the company and commercial team.

Employment specialist Daniel Bickerstaffe has been promoted to associate at Lancashire firm Forbes.

Moving to the midlands, the Birmingham office of Pinsent Curtis Biddle has snapped up two associates: Alice Broadfield (banking) joins from Eversheds, and Sukh Ahark (property and acquisition finance) leaves Herbert Smith.

Black country firm George Green has promoted private client lawyer Chris Rudge to associate.

Bristol-based TLT has taken on newly qualified Nicola Clarkson in the family team.

Four promotions at Brighton-based DMH: Douglas Stewart (corporate and commercial), Michael Halsey (employment), John Milverton (tax) and Camilla Doring (commercial litigation) all become associates.

IN-HOUSE

Promotions at troubled music company EMI.

Chris Ancliff has been promoted to the new role of senior vice president, legal affairs and general counsel, for EMI Group.

Reporting to general counsel Charles Ashcroft, he will work on EMI Group's general corporate legal work.

Meanwhile Gareth Hopkins has risen to senior vice president, legal and business affairs at subsidiary EMI Recorded Music.

Also reporting to Mr Ashcroft, he will have worldwide responsibility for EMI Recorded Music's business affairs.

Robin Saphra has been named general counsel and company secretary of BTG, which finds, develops and commercialises technology.

Joining from T Mobile International, the mobile division of Deutsche Telecom, he will join BTG's executive committee.

Mark Chidley has left his role as national head of banking at Addleshaw Booth & Co to become director, group legal services at the Royal Bank of Scotland.

He is replaced at Addleshaws by Richard Papworth.

The Newspaper Society, which represents 1,300 local and national newspaper titles, has appointed South African lawyer Jeanne Rossouw as human resources adviser within its political, editorial and regulatory affairs department.

CORRECTION

Patric Sankey-Barker has not joined Thomas Eggar Church Adams from Vizards Wyeth along with Graham Chrystie, as reported in [2002] Gazette, 11 April, 9.

He has been at Thomas Eggar for some years.

Similarly, Vernon Holgate, who is actually a non-solicitor director of Eggar Trustees, has also been with the firm for some time.