Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Starting in the City, Halliwell Landau has recruited Tola Ogundumi from Hardwick Stallards to join the firm as a partner and set up the London office's employment and pensions department.

Maria Stimpson becomes a pensions partner at Allen & Overy.

She was previously head of the pensions practice at Ashurst Morris Crisp.

Leaving Allen & Overy is Andrew Turner, who joins Speechly Bircham as a corporate partner, along with Kieran O'Connor, formerly at Osborne Clarke.

Graham Coop joins Denton Wilde Sapte from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Paris office as an energy and infrastructure partner.

Water industry expert John Hurdley joins the corporate team at Berwin Leighton Paisner from Beachcroft Wansbroughs.

Nicholson Graham & Jones has also increased its corporate capacity with the recruitment of Jeremy Landau from Bird & Bird as a partner.

Howard Kennedy has appointed Derek Collinson - formerly at Manches - as a property finance partner.

A new construction partner for Kennedys: Nicholas Carnell joins from SJ Berwin.

Another construction expert, Joe Bellhouse, leaves Shadbolt & Co for Wedlake Bell.

Still in the south-east, Guildford-based Laytons has strengthened its commercial property team with the addition of partner Colin Sturge from Halliwell Landau.

Moving further north, Irwin Mitchell has promoted six associates to partner level in its Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and London offices: Bob Neal (taxation), Julie Muscroft (public sector), Andrew Walker (insolvency), Matthew Currie (insurance), Kevin Harris-James and Julia Lomas (private client).

Private equity specialist Paul Wakefield has joined Birmingham firm Heatons from Eversheds.

Nottingham-based Shoosmiths has recruited Kevin McCavish - formerly at Nicholson Graham & Jones before spending three years at the bar - as an employment partner.

Peterborough firm Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar has elected commercial expert David Rutter as its senior partner, on the retirement of Richard Carlson.

Gavin Tyler has been promoted to partner in the employment team at Tunbridge Wells firm Cripps Harries Hall.

Niall Head-Rapson has boosted the commercial department at north-east firm Ward Hadaway by joining from Martineau Johnson in Birmingham.

Finally, leading Dublin firm O'Rourke Reid has promoted dual-qualified defence litigator Caroline Murphy to partner.

She returns to Ireland after more than two years practising as a solicitor in London, where she specialised in defence litigation for insurance companies for a niche City law firm.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Assistants/ associates

Film, television and theatre lawyer Teresa Rogers has joined niche entertainment practice Jayes & Page from Granada Media, where she was a director of business affairs.

Dual-qualified New Zealander Mark Cathro has joined the corporate finance team at Beachcroft Wansbroughs.

He was previously at Anderson Legal as a senior associate.

Stuart Borrie has left Slaughter and May to join Nicholson Graham & Jones as a corporate associate.

Heathrow-based specialist shipping firm Curtis Davis Garrard has recruited senior transactions associate Nick Graham from Sinclair Roche & Temperley.

Moving out of London, Tunbridge Wells firm Cripps Harries Hall welcomes employment assistant Kate Lawson from Orpington-based Clarkson Wright & Jakes.

Andy Robinson is promoted to associate in the intellectual property team at Irwin Mitchell's Leeds office, and Matthew Brain joins the employment team from Beachcroft Wansbroughs.

Shoosmiths also has a new associate, as Peter Andrews joins the competition team from Lovells.

Joining the new partner at Heatons in Birmingham are two newly qualified assistants - Vicky Zivkovic (corporate finance) and Claire George (personal injury) - and new planning associate Nicola Bell, who joins from Hammond Suddards Edge.

Also leaving Hammonds is senior litigator Max Duthie, who is off to Freehills in Melbourne, Australia.

Fieldings Porter in Bolton has two new assistants: Francis Mulhern (formerly at Clarks in Reading) joins the commercial team, and Sarah Durber (previously at Pannone & Partners in Manchester) strengthens the criminal defence team.

Sally Spinks joins Lincolnshire-based Roythorne & Co from DLA as a commercial property assistant.

Also arriving is newly-qualified Sarah Turner.

OTHERS

To complete Heatons' clutch of appointments, Paul Godfrey has joined as a corporate consultant from Grindleys in Stoke.

In-house barrister Helen Smith has joined the intellectual property team at Irwin Mitchell's Leeds office from 11 South Square chambers in London.

Allen & Overy has appointed Leigh Hancher - formerly at US firm LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae - as anti-trust counsel in its Amsterdam office.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer also has a new international senior counsel: Sabine Stricker-Kellerer has left Clifford Chance to join Freshfields' China team based in Munich.