Moving on

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Two of the law firms tied to Big Four accountants suffered partner losses this week.

Arun Singh, previously head of commercial at KPMG's KLegal, has joined international firm Salans.

Mr Singh was also recently appointed to the board of British Trade International, a joint Department of Trade and Industry and Foreign Office body.

He is the first lawyer to sit on the board.

Meanwhile, capital markets partner Tamara Box has left Tite & Lewis - which is linked to Ernst & Young - to join Lovells.

A similar story in Paris, where Allen & Overy and Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw have taken on teams from SG Archibald, which was a member of the collapsed Andersen Legal network.

Allen & Overy has taken intellectual property lawyer Pierre Lenoir and associates Catherine Verneret, Latitia Bnard and Julie Bernaud.

Mayer Brown has scooped up a corporate team headed by partner Xavier Jaspar, along with associates Alexis Dargent, Emily Pennec and Caroline Ackermann.

The London office of US firm Pillsbury Winthrop has a new head of e-commerce after recruiting partner Ashley Winton from the Reading office of Osborne Clarke.

Employment specialist Richard Linskell has been promoted to partner at London firm Dawsons.

Heathrow-based Curtis Davis Garrard has promoted shipping and construction litigator Robert Platt to partner.

A lateral hire in Bristol: construction partner Will Gard has joined Burges Salmon from Bevan Ashford.

Leading Welsh firm Leo Abse & Cohen has 15 partners after recruiting company litigator Chris Worrall from south-west firm Foot Anstey Sargent, and promoting trades union specialist David White and personal injury litigator Mark Church.

Four promotions take Nottingham-based Browne Jacobson's partnership tally to 43: Nik Carle and Sarah Erwin (professional negligence), Paul Taylor (head of the team acting for NHS clients defending catastrophic injury claims), and Iain Patterson (head of employment in the Birmingham office).

Iain Campbell - previously a partner and head of commercial litigation at Stockport firm Gorvins - has joined Hill Dickinson in Chester.

North-east firm Jacksons has 19 partners after promoting employment lawyer Mark Foster and family specialist Amanda Baker.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

In London, media and entertainment specialist firm Schillings has recruited Rod Christie-Miller from Bird & Bird as an assistant, to specialise in sports and commercial litigation.

Another media and entertainment firm, Clintons, has scooped up corporate/commercial assistant Robbie MacDonald from Slaughter and May.

In Kent, private client specialist Sarah Mole joins Beckenham-based Thackray Wood as an assistant from Croydon firm MB Allen & Co.

Clare Bone has qualified into the private client team at Canterbury firm Furley Page, which has also recruited employment assistant Caroline Doherty from Edwin Coe in London.

Pitmans has two new assistants from other Reading-based firms: Angela O'Donoghue (employment) from Rowberry Morris, and Helen Webster (private client) from Blandy & Blandy.

Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough has brought in property assistant Michael Morgan from Gloucester-based Davies & Partners.

Angela Williams - previously at Chelmsford firm Gepp & Sons - is a new commercial property assistant at Foot Anstey Sargent.

Property assistant Tamara Macdonald has joined Shoosmiths' Northampton office from Milton Keynes firm EMW Law.

In Norwich, personal injury assistant Samantha Kemp has left Steele & Co to join Howes Percival.

Insolvency and commercial litigator Mike Gilmour has left the Birmingham office of Eversheds to join Harrison Clark in Worcester as an associate and head of insolvency.

Challinors Lyon Clark has recruited Katherine Haden from Benussi & Co as an assistant in its Birmingham office.

As well as new partners, Browne Jacobson has promoted six solicitors to associate: Ed Anderson and Alison Howard (professional indemnity in London and Nottingham respectively), Steve Cornfield and Sue Mabbott (personal injury in Birmingham and Nottingham respectively), Mark Blois (education, Nottingham) and Emma Rees (clinical negligence, Birmingham).

Property assistant Charles Jackson has joined DLA's Leeds office from City firm Nabarro Nathanson.

Gorvins has also appointed senior associate Nick Gutteridge from John Pickering & Partners to head its personal injury and disease department.

And probate, trusts and wills assistant John Kitching joins Gorvins from Rollits in Hull.

Kuit Steinart Levy in Manchester has two new assistants: Samantha Lansbury (intellectual property) from Halliwell Landau, and James Driver (commercial litigation) from Horwich Farrelly.

Steven Woarse has joined Hill Dickinson's Chester office as a commercial property solicitor.

He leaves Walker Smith & Way.

The Brussels office of Bird & Bird has two new associates to strengthen its international employment team: Olivier Rijckaert and Aurore Gillet both join from Allen & Overy in Brussels.