Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Starting in the City, Paul Marco has left Manches to join Halliwell Landau's London office as a property litigation partner.

City giant Clifford Chance has appointed deputy chief operating officer Chris Perrin as an executive partner.

He joins Phillip Palmer as the firm's second executive partner, with responsibility for risk management, professional indemnity and general management issues.

There were a couple of international appointments this week, starting with a new banking head for White & Case in Budapest.

Kroly Fti was previously regional general counsel for Citibank.

After eight years with Shadbolt & Co in Hong Kong, Colin Dodd will be joining Clayton Utz as a partner in its Sydney-based major projects team.

US firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has appointed two finance partners to its London office.

Christopher Kandel joins from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, and Bill Rubin leaves Weil Gotshal & Manges.

Moving out of the City, Tunbridge Wells firm Berry & Berry has acquired sole practitioner Robin Mayes' firm, Mayes & Rudge, to create a nine-partner practice.

Also joining the firm from Mayes & Rudge is litigation assistant Catherine Douglas.

Thames Valley firm Clarks has promoted employment specialist Rebecca Ireland to partner.

Further north, Manchester firm Betesh Fox & Co has appointed Judith Bell - previously at Young & Lee in Birmingham - as partner and head of its private client divorce department.

Finally, Paul Wakefield leaves Eversheds to join Birmingham firm Heatons as a private equity partner.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Assistants/ associates

Russell Jones & Walker has appointed Dermot Clarke as head of its Birmingham-based criminal team.

He joins from Gadd & Partners in Cheltenham, where he was a partner.

There was a lot of movement in the north-west, starting with Manchester commercial firm Fox Brooks Marshall.

John Spofforth has joined as a corporate assistant from DLA in Liverpool.

Leaving DLA in Birmingham is Stephen Betts, who joins Hill Dickinson's Liverpool office as a private client assistant.

Stockport firm O'Neill Patient has expanded its domestic conveyancing practice with the recruitment of Anita Gargye from Gorvin Smith Fort as an associate.

Also joining the firm is recently qualified corporate and commercial associate Miranda Carberry.

Still in Manchester, James Chapman & Co has boosted its professional indemnity practice with the appointment of two assistants: Janet Lees, formerly at Beachcroft Wansbroughs, and Rebecca Tempest, from Hammond Suddards Edge.

Milners in Leeds has three new assistants.

Private client expert Hugh Thompson (from Lupton Fawcett) joins new personal injury litigators Nicola Sutcliffe (from Godloves in Leeds) and Ruth Harrison (from Donns in Manchester).

Two Thames Valley firms have new additions.

Alan Fieldsend joins Clarks as a senior solicitor in its environment and corporate departments.

Clarks also has two newly-qualified assistants - commercial property expert Alistair MacKenzie-Ross and corporate technology specialist Gurpreet Jowhal.

Litigator John Morrison joins Manches' Thames Valley office as a senior solicitor from Foot Anstey Sargent in Plymouth.

Five assistants have joined south coast firm Lester Aldridge - Roger Potgieter, Jo Berryman, Stephen Dawson (asset finance and banking), Matthew Gilbert (corporate) and Mark Benham (business property) are all newly qualified with the firm.

James Cross - formerly a partner at Crosse & Crosse - has strengthened the commercial team at Torbay and Newton Abbot firm Kitson Hutchings.

Assistant civil litigator Polly Stephenson has newly qualified with Ashton Graham in Ipswich.

In the City, Charles Russell is expanding its commercial property team with the arrival of assistant solicitor Abigail Mitchell from Dechert.

Finally, Tom Price has left Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to become a senior associate at Sherman & Sterling's London office.

OTHERS

City firm Linklaters has recruited Oonagh Harpur, the chief executive of Enterprise Insight - a business led, government funded body to encourage an entrepreneurial culture in the UK - as its new partnership secretary.

Barney Reynolds, financial services expert, has joined Sherman & Sterling's London office as counsel from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

DJ Freeman has recruited Anthony Aust, until recently deputy legal adviser to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office, as consultant to its public international law group.