Moving On

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

It may be the middle of the promotion season, but there are plenty of partners on the move in London as well.

Manchester-based Halliwell Landau has boosted its London office by adding construction/ commercial property lawyer Simon Hardwick, formerly managing partner of City firm Hardwick Stallards.

He brings with him assistant Annmaria Forbes, who will head the commercial property department.

City IT firm Tarlo Lyons has brought in a four-partner corporate/property team from Vizards Wyeth, taking it to 28 partners: lead partner John Hargreaves, Andrew Taylor and Martin O'Donoghue (property) and Martin Kay (corporate).

Shashi Rajani, formerly head of business recovery at Nicholson Graham & Jones, has jumped ship for Davies Arnold Cooper.

London firm Stringer Saul has brought in Justin Ede from Nabarro Nathanson to head its litigation and dispute resolution group.

There are 39 fresh-faced partners at international law firm Clifford Chance after this year's promotion round, taking the firm to 668 globally.

There are 15 in London: Kate Alliott, Adrian Cartwright, Debashis Dey (capital markets), Spencer Baylin, Oliver Bretz, Nigel Hatfield, Laura O'Neill (corporate), Charles Cochrane, Philip Hertz, Stephen Lucas (banking and finance), Robert Davies, Helen Smyth, Sarah Squires (tax, pensions and employment), and Alex Panayides, Stephen Surgeoner (litigation and dispute resolution).

Linklaters now has 490 partners after making up 29 worldwide.

The nine in London are: Paul McNicholl, Dominic Welham (corporate), Christian Ahlborn (competition), Jason Manketo (capital markets), Anne Hoe (structured finance), Richard Bussell, Sushma Jobanputra (banking), Lynne Walkington (tax) and Andrew Hughes (litigation).

Seven new partners for Simmons & Simmons, taking it to 200 worldwide, including Mike Nash (environmental) and Rhys Williams (commercial) in London.

However, litigator Robert Johnson has left Simmons to become the 25th partner at home counties firm Taylor Walton.

Nine new partners for Hammond Suddards Edge take its total to 199: Prew Lumley and Nick Green (property), Francois Barker and Wendy Hunter (pensions), Simon Sale (corporate), John Emerton (construction), Nilam Sharma (commercial dispute resolution and commercial insurance), Tim Jarvis (tax) and Edward Borovlkov (trade law).

Seven additions for Russell Jones & Walker makes 56 partners across the country: Judith Seddon, Damian Kelly (criminal and investigations), Richard Crabtree, Richard Geraghty (personal injury), Barry Clarke (employment), Michael Knott (private client) and Jeremy Abraham (family).

Moving out of London, Reading firm Field Seymour Parkes has made up Mary Winter (company/commercial) and Kelsie Essenhigh (commercial property) to make ten partners.

Leeds firm Lupton Fawcett has made up commercial litigators Nick Armitage and Nigel Broadbent, and now has 26 partners.

A busy week in Bolton - property firm Kippax Beaumont Lewis made up commercial property specialist Debbie Roberts as its seventh partner; 17-partner Russell & Russell promoted personal injury specialist Vincent Pearl to equity partner after ten years as a salaried partner, while Keoghs has recruited personal injury partner Iain Tenquist from Morgan Cole in Reading, where he was director of the general insurance division.

There were also a couple of senior partner appointments this week.

Following the retirement of Ian Judge, David Brown has become senior partner and head of intellectual property at niche London firm Bristows while Bristol firm TLT has elected employment lawyer Robert Bourns to replace Tim Pyper as senior partner.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates / assistants

Manchester-based George Davies has recruited company/commercial associate Paul Tyrer from Andersen Legal.

Commercial property lawyer Sophie Harris joins north Yorkshire firm Berwins as an associate from the Bradford and Northern Housing Association.

Insurance associate Anna Tipping has left Allen & Overy to join US/UK firm Reed Smith Warner Cranston.

Manches' Oxford office welcomes commercial property assistant Deborah Caldwell from the Reading office of Nabarro Nathanson.

Black country firm George Green has a new corporate and commercial assistant: Damian Beard, formerly at Oldbury-based Silks.

Suzanna Martin joins Guildford firm Stevens & Bolton as an employment assistant from City firm Speechly Bircham.

CONSULTANTS

London aviation firm Beaumont & Son has lured Canadian lawyer Lorne Clark to be its senior international adviser.

He has just retired as vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary of the International Air Transport Association in Geneva.

Bournemouth firm Steele Raymond has brought in ex-Richards Butler partner Graeme Bowtle to help develop its shipping practice.

Hertfordshire firm Sherrards has recruited solicitor Ian Baker from restaurant group Casual Dining to work with the commercial property team in 'facilitating joint initiatives into the commercial retail and leisure property sectors'.

Birmingham firm Martineau Johnson has recruited power industry expert John Stubbs from electricity company Npower.

David Sandiford joins the company/commercial division of Cheshire firm Neil Myerson.

He was previously senior partner at Hough & Co in Runcorn.