Moving on

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Partners

City firm Howard Kennedy has brought in a three-strong commercial property team from the London office of US firm Altheimer & Gray.

Partners Laurence Begner and Nicky Stewart are joined by assistant Caroline Browne.

Philippa Chadwick has left Denton Wilde Sapte for the London office of Bevan Ashford as a partner heading the banking and finance department.

US/UK firm Reed Smith has hired partner Giles Beale, who was formerly head of Hammonds' institutional practice.

Ross & Craig has become an 11-partner central London firm after recruiting property litigator Gill Cameron from Vizard Oldham Brooke as a partner and making up property lawyer Phillip Bardsley.

Clintons is now a 20-partner firm after promoting David Griffiths (entertainment litigation), Daniel Grove (commercial and insolvency litigation) and Abigail Smith (corporate).

Ashford-based firm Kingsfords has absorbed north Kent firm AJ Glover & Co, with Amanda Glover joining as a commercial property partner.

Tunbridge Wells firm CooperBurnett is now an 11-partner firm after Stephen Hare was named partner and head of the wills and probate department.

The Southampton office of Lester Aldridge has a new head of corporate after Nick Gent joined as a partner from Bond Pearce.

Dorset firm Coles Miller has promoted Mary Pearce to partner and head of family, and Carol Elliott to commercial property partner.

It now has 12 partners.

Commercial litigation partner Geoff Mendelsohn has left the Guildford office of Laytons for Reading-based Boyes Turner.

Birmingham firm Shakespeares has promoted wills, tax and trusts specialist Lesley Davis to partner.

Partners - international

The New York office of City firm Watson Farley & Williams has hired international finance lawyer John Imhof from Shearman & Sterling.

In Paris, finance and banking specialist Janet Butterworth has moved from Norton Rose to Holman Fenwick & Willan.

There have been several developments across the world at Lovells.

In Hong Kong, Greg Terry, who for a decade was a director and group general counsel at Jardine Matheson, has joined Lovells to lead its corporate practice across all six of the firm's Asian offices.

In Alicante, intellectual property lawyer Andreas Renck has been made up.

Lovells' Frankfurt office has recruited Olaf Grabowski - previously a director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein - as an international banking partner.

Jens Rinze, formerly with Hengeler Mller in Frankfurt, has joined as a structured debt partner.

Still in Germany, Taylor Wessing has added corporate partner Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais from private equity fund CEA Capital Partners, where he was a partner and investment director.

In Singapore, funds and regulatory partner Choo Wai Hong has joined Clifford Chance Wong - the global firm's Singapore-based joint venture - from Australian firm Allen & Gledhill.

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Associates / assistants

There are two in and one out of the company/ commercial group at Brighton firm DMH.

It has brought in associates Fabio Mazzocchetti from US firm Hale & Dorr and Justine Tocher, who most recently worked at City firm Taylor Wessing before taking some time out.

Former group head Ian Wilson has moved to ASB Law as a senior solicitor.

In the City, public law specialist Rebecca Money-Kyrle has left SJ Berwin for Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, where she will be a senior solicitor.

Mayer Brown has also hired senior insurance lawyer Jane Scott from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.

Thomas Cooper & Stibbard has brought aviation specialist Hamish Cotton over from Sydney-based niche transport firm Norton White.

The London office of Hill Dickinson has two professional indemnity recruits: Dileep Pisharody from Hextalls and Simon Stanley from Levenes.

General commercial and insolvency lawyer Shaw Stapely has joined the Chelmsford office of Tolhurst Fisher as an associate from Osborne Clarke.

Bristol-based construction lawyer Stephen Smith has swapped Burges Salmon for TLT.

In Cardiff, Richard Steer has left DAS Legal Expenses to return to private practice as an employment assistant at Leo Abse & Cohen.

Probate assistant Lisa Baker has left Harrison Clark in Worcester for Birmingham firm Shakespeares.

Another employment solicitor, Helena Morrissey, has qualified into Solihull-based Davies & Partners.

Preston firm Marsdens has brought in litigator Morag Robertson from Hough Halton & Soal in Carlisle.

Blackburn's Taylors has added commercial solicitor Stephen Gaunt from Manchester firm Cobbetts.

Joanne Hurcombe has taken the step up to child law associate at north-west firm Stephensons.

Across the Pennines, Yorkshire firm Rollits has promoted employment specialist Ed Duffield to associate.

One-time barrister Geraldine Levine has been kept on in the commercial team at Leeds firm Fox Hayes after requalifying as a solicitor.

Teeside firm The Endeavour Partnership has recruited commercial property solicitor Jamie Brown from Doberman Horsman in Middlesbrough.