Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Lateral hires continue to be a major theme this week both here and abroad.

International capital markets partner Charles Howarth has moved from Linklaters to Herbert Smith, which last week also announced that David Gold will succeed Harry Anderson as head of the firm's market-leading litigation division on 1 April next year.

Lovells partner Anne Waltham is joining the London office of Birmingham firm Wragge & Co as joint head of property litigation with Suzanne Lloyd Holt.

Mark Haftke leaves KLegal, where he was head of both the UK and European media and e-commerce groups, to join US firm Brobeck Hale & Dorr in London as head of the intellectual property and IT group.

Linklaters' Frankfurt office is boosted by this week's arrival of securities specialist Ray Fisher from US firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.

US firm Altheimer & Gray has a new partner in London: Nina Hoque joins the capital projects group from Freshfields, where she was a senior associate.

South-coast firm Lester Aldridge has 37 partners after recruiting Neil Irvine (tax and trusts) from Newcastle firm Watson Burton and Michael Owen (housing) from the Isaacs Partnership in Bournemouth, and promoting Simon Rhodes (employment) and Matthew Barker (corporate).

Civil litigator Ben Dures has been made partner at Peterborough firm Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar.

Former personal injury sole practitioner Andrew Howard is the fifth partner at Cambridgeshire firm Scrivenger Seabrook.

Birmingham is the latest location for multi-office regional firm Shoosmiths, which has recruited property lawyer Joel Kordan from Lee Crowder to set up an office in the city.

Also in Birmingham, Ian Vesey, formerly at BMV Solicitors, and Mary Clarke, previously at Ian Gold, have set up a two-partner criminal practice, Vesey & Clarke, based at Kings Heath.

Two new partners bring Huddersfield firm Ramsdens' total to seven: head of family Helen Thewlis has been promoted from associate, and wills, trusts and probate partner Michael Roberts joins from Ridley & Hall.

DLA's Sheffield office has lost charities expert Godfrey Smallman to Yorkshire-based Wrigleys as the firm's 12th partner.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

It's all go at Oxford firm Henmans, which has promoted two assistants to associates: Cecily Cameron, who also becomes head of clinical negligence and charity litigator Angela Bowman.

The firm has also recruited six assistants: charity litigator James Aspden (from Sharpe Pritchard), commercial litigators Nadira Asghar (James Chapman) and Phillip Evans (Weightman Vizards), clinical negligence specialist Htwe Mint (from Marshall Ross & Prevezer), employment lawyer Laura Hopwood (Barlows) and corporate specialist Alok Kumar (Osborne Clarke).

Property lawyers Andy Littlefield and Jacqui Hesketh have been promoted to associates at Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar in Peterborough.

In Birmingham, pensions associate Gary Delderfield joins Martineau Johnson from Eversheds.

Newly qualified Susannah Walton has been taken on in the commercial property team at Black Country firm George Green.

Property lawyer Johan Ladds has been promoted to associate at Lincolnshire firm Roythorne & Co.

Manchester-based commercial firm Lockett Loveday McMahon has recruited assistants Gary Jones from Clough & Willis and Ed Foulkes from Halliwell Landau.

Bolton-based Keoghs has three new insurance fraud assistants: Ruth Gavin (from Mintons), Laura O'Connor (Beachcroft Wansbroughs) and Hesham Sabry (Farleys).

Three newly qualified solicitors become assistants at Leeds firm Nelson & Co: Susannah Hornsey (commercial property), James Ryan (corporate finance) and Alison Woodall (commercial litigation).

York-based Harrowell Shaftoe has recruited commercial lawyer Charles Walker from Walker Tomaszewski in London and conveyancer Christine Fulton from Addleshaw Booth & Co.

They both join as senior solicitors.

Newly qualified Alison Ainsley becomes a personal injury assistant at Newcastle firm Mincoffs.

Back south, four new associates are promoted at Lester Aldridge on the south coast: Sarah Chaloner and James Mitchell (both commercial litigation), Matthew Homan (corporate) and Jo Smith (banking and finance).

Employment associate Brian Wilson has joined Paul Davidson Taylor in Horsham from Rowley Ashworth in Birmingham.

In addition to its new partner, US firm Altheimer & Gray's London office has two new senior capital projects associates: Simela Karasavidis from Linklaters and Marcus Tapley-Peabody from CMS Cameron McKenna.

Another US firm, Bryan Cave, has recruited insurance/reinsurance associate Amanda Mochrie, previously at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.

Allen & Overy's Tokyo office has boosted its capital markets team with associates Aaron Comerford from Baker & McKenzie in Sydney and Joshua Schwab from New York firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

CORRECTION

Richard Powell has been promoted to partner at JMW in Manchester and not recruited, as stated in [2002] Gazette, 14 November, 10.