PRIVATE PRACTICE
Partners
Kicking off in the City, real estate partner Robert Porter leaves Clifford Chance for Allen & Overy.
Corporate partner Richard Hildebrand has joined City firm Trowers & Hamlins from Olswang.
Withers has hired cross-border tax and charities specialist Richard Cassell, who is qualified in the US and the UK, from US firm Bryan Cave in the City.
Still in the capital, Howard Kennedy takes on Andrew Woolf from boutique firm Credo Corporate Finance, where he was head of corporate finance.
Family specialist Roger Cobden-Ramsay has left RadcliffesLeBrasseur to join niche trust, tax and matrimonial firm Harcus Sinclair.
He takes assistant solicitor Tessa Bray with him.
In Birmingham, City firm DLA hires two real estate partners: Peter Taylor from Cambridge-based Hewitsons and Alex Jones from national firm Pinsents.
Meanwhile, Pinsents in Birmingham takes on competition specialist Guy Lougher from Wragge & Co.
Insurance litigation partner Fred Isherwood joins Sydney Mitchell in Birmingham from Putsman.wlc.
Stoke on Trent's Kent Jones & Done has hired employment specialist Kate Levy from regional firm Mills & Reeve's Birmingham office.
Five commercial property partner promotions for newly merged Bullivant Jones Hill Dickinson in Liverpool: Bill Chandler, Abby Dry, Susan Edwards, Tony Parry and Louise Whittle.
Two new commercial property partners for north-west firm Brabners Chaffe Street: in Liverpool, Jim Purves moves from Eversheds in Manchester, where he was an associate, while in Manchester, Jane Lake joins from the Liverpool office of City firm Trowers & Hamlins.
Corporate recovery and insolvency partner Sean McGrath joins the Manchester office of Cobbetts from DLA.
Amanda Merrick, founder of Didsbury-based Merrick & Co and a family and commercial property specialist, has moved to the Heald Green office of Manchester firm Linder Myers as a partner.
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Associates / assistants
Barrister Paul Stokes has joined the consumer finance group at national firm Addleshaw Goddard in the City as an associate.
He joins from in-house at Barclays, where he specialised in consumer finance and credit.
Assistant solicitor Dan Rubenstein has joined the human rights and civil liberties team at Matthew Gold in north London from Imran Khan & Partners.
On the south coast, banking and finance assistant solicitor Estelle Clarke has joined Blake Lapthorn Linnell in Southampton from Spearing Waite in Leicester.
Moving west, commercial specialist Alison Whittingham joins Porter Dodson in Taunton as an assistant solicitor from local firm Pardoes, where she was a partner.
Three new associates for Bishop Longbotham & Bagnall in Bath and Wiltshire: Frank Scott-Ashe (company and commercial) from Thring Townsend in Bath, Guy Mortimer (commercial property) from west country firm Bond Pearce, and Martin Loughridge (personal injury) from City firm Russell Jones & Walker.
To Worcester, where commercial litigator Mike Glimour is promoted to partner at Harrison Clark.
Personal injury and employment assistant Alan Rennie has left Eaton Ryan & Taylor in Birmingham to join Everatt & Co in Alchester, Oxfordshire.
Further north, commercial litigator Matthew Stokes joins Ricksons in Preston as an assistant solicitor from Joe Egan in Bolton.
Commercial property specialist Sheila Whitton, a former partner at Weightman Vizards in Liverpool, joins Cheshire firm Forshaws as an associate.
Ford & Warren in Leeds hires commercial property assistant solicitor Michelle Croft from Eatons in Bradford.
OTHER
Graham Huntley, corporate and financial litigation group manager at City firm Lovells, becomes president of the London Solicitors Litigation Association, while Anthony Maton, partner at McGrigors in London, is made the association's honorary secretary.
Gwilym Williams, assistant director at Northern Rock, has been appointed regional chairman of the Law Society's Commerce & Industry Group, Tyne Tees region.
Mohamed Hans has left his role as senior commercial solicitor at Calderdale District Council to become adviser to the Procurement and Commissioning Forum, the commercial division of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.
Giles Pugh, former director of strategy at Linklaters, is joining legal management consultancy Hildebrandt.
Regional firm Browne Jacobson has two new recruits for its marketing team: Sarah Warnsby joins as director of marketing from Boots and Robin Stevens joins as marketing and communications manager from national firm Eversheds.
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