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Partnership

It has been a big week for lateral hires in the City, as international firm Salans leads the way with the recruitment of six partners from Theodore Goddard, currently in merger talks with Addleshaw Booth & Co.

They are: former TG managing partner Peter Cooke (employment); former head of employment Jane Bullen; former head of corporate Graham Stedman and fellow corporate partner Paul Salmon; and media partners Jonathan Berger and Peter Armstrong.

Several associates are expected to move with them.

Top corporate partner Peter King has left Linklaters for US firm Shearman & Sterling's London office.

Media and telecoms partner Tony Ghee joins Taylor Wessing from City firm Ashurst Morris Crisp.

Associate Ingrid Silver is moving with him.

Irwin Mitchell's London office has recruited partner Claire Fazan - formerly head of personal injury and clinical negligence with Bindman & Partners.

Matthew Harris, an IP/IT litigation partner at Herbert Smith, is moving over to Norton Rose.

Richard Curtin has left newly merged Jones Day Gouldens to the London office of Brighton firm DMH, where he will head the insolvency and asset-based lending group.

Conan Chitham-Mosley, a senior associate who headed the media department of Wragge & Co in Birmingham, is moving to London firm Mishcon de Reya as a partner.

Also leaving Wragges is associate Dea Fischer, who joins the Cheltenham office of BPE as a partner and head of employment.

A quadruple loss for Hammonds in Birmingham.

Corporate partners Roger Birchall and Joanne Bligh are joining Browne Jacobson to spearhead the growth of the Nottingham-based firm's office in the city.

Another pair of Hammonds corporate partners - Paul Cliff and Katie Silvester - are joining Gateley Wareing.

In Manchester, corporate lawyer Philip Treanor joins Pannone & Partners as a partner from Addleshaw Booth & Co, where he was an assistant.

Specialist fraud firm Cooper Kenyon Burrows has hired Madeleine Albas as a partner in the regulatory department.

She leaves DLA's London office, where she was an assistant.

Eversheds has rejigged its management team following the election of David Gray as managing partner.

Bryan Hughes, managing partner for Cardiff, will take up the executive position of head of operations, replacing Colin Brown, who is becoming managing partner for the Paris office.

Alan Meredith, head of property in Cardiff, has taken over from Mr Hughes.

Keith James stays as chairman.

KLegal has appointed Colin Gray as chief operating officer.

He was head of corporate business, a role now taken by KLegal founding partner Philip Rogers.

Another management change takes place in the midlands, where Chris Hodson - senior partner of Nottingham-based Rothera Dowson - is retiring after 12 years in the role, and is replaced by finance partner Jim Boden.

In Hong Kong, the closure of CMS Cameron McKenna's non-insurance practice has led to the flight of six partners, 13 other lawyers and 14 support staff to DLA.

The partners are: Mark Badger (projects), Janine Canham (corporate), Dora Chow (IP), Christopher Clarke (litigation), Prudence Mitchell (who will head the business support and restructuring group), and Suzanne Pearson (banking).

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Associates/assistants

In the north-west, Blackburn firm Taylors has brought in education litigator Katie Jukes from Eversheds in Leeds.

Also crossing the Pennines is Emma Cross, who has left Crutes in Newcastle for the Liverpool office of Mace & Jones.

Manchester firm Betesh Fox & Co has brought in criminal solicitor Stuart Page from Bolton-based Russell & Russell, while former Betesh assistant Wendi Bussin, now at Cooper Kenyon Burrows, has been promoted to associate.

She specialises in the environmental side of regulatory issues.

Weightman Vizards also hired several new associates in Manchester: corporate lawyers Saad Ahmed (from Hammonds) and Candice Osborne (from the London office of US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges); corporate recovery associate James Kaye from Taylors; and professional indemnity specialists Niall Innes and Louisa Robbins (both from Hammonds).

And in the Birmingham office, employment associate Andrew Vernon has joined from Mills & Reeve.

Harrogate-based Davidson Webber plc has recruited litigator Katherine Southby, an assistant from Nottingham-based Browne Jacobson.

Sheffield firm Taylor & Emmet has added employment assistant John Holmes from Irwin Mitchell.

Robert Powell joins the Lincoln office of Langleys as an employment assistant from Grimsby-based Beetenson & Gibbon, where he was a partner.