PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Activity on the other side of the Channel this week, as City firm Eversheds expands its Paris office.

It has recruited a new partner in Pascal de Moidrey (corporate finance) from Paris firm Latournerie Wolfrom & Associs, and partner Stephan Ford (real estate) has been seconded to Eversheds' office in the City for two years.

Fellow City firm Simmons & Simmons has a new partner in financial regulatory law specialist France Wilmet, who joins the firm's Brussels office from Belgian firm Peeters Advocaten-Avocats.

Back in the City, Greg Mulley is set to leave Linklaters for a new career as partner in the corporate division of Herbert Smith.

Banking and Finance partner Jeremy Cross is making the move from Osborne Clarke's Bristol office to join SJ Berwin, while Iona Levine has left her position as head of derivatives at Baker & McKenzie to become director of the firm's financial services group.

Nigel Frudd has left Landwell to join Beachcroft Wansbroughs as head of financial services.

Intellectual property specialist Lesley Hall is set to leave Addleshaw Goddard to join Farrer & Co as a partner.

Middlesex-based IBB Solicitors has a new partner in personal injury specialist Malcolm Underhill, who joins from City firm Vizards Wyeth.

And in Oxfordshire, Spratt Endicott has appointed Chris McGrail of Wiltshire firm Goughs as head of family law.

Phil Riman has left venture capitalist 3i to join the Oxford office of Darbys to head its corporate finance unit.

In the midlands, Vicki Simpson has left Eversheds to join the Birmingham office of Shoosmiths as a commercial property partner.

There is a new personal injury firm in Chester, where four partners have formed BGR Boomer.

They are Adrian Brown, formerly a senior road traffic accident partner at the Paul Roonery Partnership, Timothy Golding, formerly marketing manager for the same firm, Joseph Ryan of Manchester-based Lyons Wilson, and Shauna Bloomer of Percy Hughes & Roberts in Birkenhead.

Sarah Naylor and Susan Walsh have left Elliotts, where they were partner and senior associate respectively, to join the Manchester-based professional indemnity team of Hill Dickinson.

The New York office of City firm Linklaters has a new partner in insolvency specialist Martin Flics.

He joins from the New York office of Latham & Watkins.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/ assistants

Kent firm Kingsfords has appointed Steve Sullivan to assist in the expansion of the firm's company commercial department.

He was previously at City firm Ashurst Morris Crisp.

In the City, Laytons has appointed Megan Silcock as an assistant in its dispute resolution team following her qualification.

Over in Cambridgeshire, Frank Squire has left Shelly & Co to join Huntingdon-based Kirkpatricks as a consultant.

An impressive list of captures for Birmingham-based Blakemores this week as Colin Stokes and Lindsey Matthews have joined the claimant personal injury department as assistants from Stourbridge-based Higgs & Sons and the Birmingham office of Beachcroft Wansbroughs respectively, while David Glover has moved from Merricks in Birmingham.

The firm's conveyancing department has been bolstered by new assistants Elizabeth Fairs from Coventry firm Field Overell, Adam Carney from Goldsmith Williams in Liverpool and, in the Coventry office, Suzie Umney from Heenan & Jobling of Rugby.

Sarah Fitzhugh has left Franklins to become an assistant in the private client team and family lawyer Caroline Robinson has joined the Coventry office from Alsters Kelley.

Andrea Morris, head of employment, and Mark Kitely, team leader of the Coventry and Leamington personal injury department, have been promoted to associates.

Three solicitors have been promoted to associate level at Nottingham firm Rothera Dowson: Cathy Healy (family), Sarah Phillips (probate and tax planning) and Carole Fox (residential conveyancing).

Joanne King has moved farther north from Lincolnshire firm Heptonstalls to a position as criminal negligence solicitor at Sheffield-based Howells.

In Leeds, Grahame Stowe Bateson has netted four family law assistants.

Ianthe Slinger joins from Frettens in Christchurch, Dawn Barraclough moves over from Bedford-based Woodfine Batchelor, and registered European lawyers Olav Bahlmann and Frank Idelenburg join the firm from Germany.

Harrogate-based Taylor Fawcett has appointed Fiona Gillam as solicitor (conveyancing).

She had worked in Harrogate for Lupton Fawcett.

Peterborough firm Hunt & Coombs has appointed Sarah Graburn to its litigation team following her qualification.

Jeya Thiruchelvam has left Levenes to join Newport firm Harding Evans as a solicitor in its employment law department.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Others

Chris Kane, head of the commercial department at south west firm Withy King, has been appointed acting chairman of the Institute of Directors Wiltshire and Bath Centre.

He had been vice-chairman at the centre for two years.

Richard Simon has joined City firm Moorhead James from Pullig & Co.

He will act as a consultant in the firm's company and employment departments.

The Oxfordshire Institute of Legal Practice has a new director in Amanda Clarke.

She was most recently senior technical advisor in the tax department of City firm Allen & Overy.

In Cambridge, Laura Lim (wills, estates and enduring powers of attorney) has left Thomson Webb Corfield to join Few & Kester's private client team.