PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

Competition specialist Alexandra Kamerling has joined DLA in London from Clifford Chance.

City firm Michael Segen & Co has hired property partner Mark Jacob from Kidd Rapinet in London and commercial partner Tom Edwards from Vizard Oldham.

Andrew Carrier joins the property team of Bridgehouse Partners in London from Mills & Reeve, where he was a senior solicitor.

Two UK partner promotions bring Clyde & Co to 120 worldwide: corporate tax specialist Tim Crosley and aviation lawyer Gareth Lewis.

Five partnership promotions for Howes Percival in Leicester and Norwich: Alison Macfarlane (employment); Louis Flannery (international arbitration); Tessa Haskey (commercial property); Richard Healey (commercial litigation) and Morris Peacock (commercial litigation).

Corporate solicitor Keith Gilbert has been made a director.

Moving north, a double hire from Wacks Caller in Manchester for north-west firm Perkins: intellectual property and IT specialist Mark Shipley and employment lawyer Neil Gouldson.

Clare Lee has been promoted to partner in the commercial property department of Cottrill Stone Lawless in Manchester.

Still in Manchester, Andy Mullen has been promoted to partner at niche commercial firm Lockett Loveday McMahon..

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

Helen Ball and Janet Brown have been promoted to associate in the pensions team at Sacker & Partners in London.

Niche City shipping firm EG Arghyrakis & Co has hired assistant solicitor Rupert Talbot-Garman from Constant & Constant in London.

In Surrey, commercial property litigator Susan Albery joins Shadbolt & Co as a senior associate from US/UK firm Faegre Benson Hobson Audley in the City.

At Pitmans in Reading, disputes resolution specialist Sarah Weindling joins as an assistant solicitor from Salans in London.

In Wales, Harding Evans in Gwent promotes two to associate: Andrew Christie (personal injury) and Elin Phillips (wills and probate).

On the other side of the country, company and commercial specialist Eugene Scales has joined Ashton Graham in Ipswich as an assistant solicitor.

He qualified at City firm Clifford Chance.

Elizabeth Jackson has been promoted to associate in Howes Percival's Leicester corporate and commercial team.

Liverpool's Mace & Jones has hired employment assistant solicitor Emma Heald from Peninsula Business Services in Manchester.

Kyra Romano-Scott is promoted to associate in the family department of Lees Lloyd Whitley.

Also promoted at the Merseyside firm is personal injury specialist Louise Wilding.

Four solicitors are promoted to associate at Rollits in Yorkshire: Mark Dixon (planning), Caroline Hardcastle (litigation), Nasim Sharf (company and commercial) and Adrian West (property).

Construction solicitors Simon Rowland and Ashley Simpson are promoted to associate at Newcastle's Dickinson Dees.

Katharine Gillespie joins Samuel Phillips & Co's clinical negligence team in Newcastle from Simpson Millar in Manchester, where she trained.