Private practice

Partners


Andrew Murray: moves to Rawlison Butler Starting in the City, head of construction at Addleshaw Goddard, Michael Blackburne, joins Reynolds Porter Chamberlain as a partner.


Family specialist Christopher Butler moves to Speechly Bircham in the City from Farrer & Co.



Justin Boyd leaves Hess Energy Trading, where he was European counsel, to join the London office of US firm Holman Fenwick & Willan as a partner.



Outside London, Kevin Healy moves to Reading firm Pitmans as a director in the commercial property team, from Turbervilles in Uxbridge where he was a partner.



Also in Reading, Colleen Nelson joins the environmental practice at asb law as a partner from Norton Rose, where she was a senior associate.



In Norwich, Charles Holloway joins Steeles to head a new investigations team from Eversheds, where he was head of litigation.



Two are promoted to partner level at Aaron & Partners’ Chester-based employment team: Kate Ormrod and Rehan Pasha.



Still in Chester, family specialist Rachel Wynn Jones is promoted to partner at Walker Smith Way.



Sandy Sadhra: joins TLT as an assistant solicitor


Corporate partner Andrew Davison has joined Robert Muckle in the north-east after leaving Eversheds in Newcastle earlier in the year.


Associates/ assistants



Helen O’Hara leaves Denison Till in Yorkshire to head the new insolvency practice at Schofield Sweeney in Leeds as an associate. She brings with her assistant solicitor Lisa Adkin, a specialist in contentious insolvency and commercial litigation.



In Manchester, assistant solicitor Steven Burnett joins the property team at Brabners Chaffe Street from Cobbetts.



Commercial property specialist David Williams is promoted to associate at Walker Smith Way in Chester.



In Grimsby, corporate assistant solicitor Chris Houghton moves to Tollers in Northamptonshire from Wilkin Chapman.



Associate Chris Reed leaves Wragge & Co for the commercial services department at Gateley Wareing in Birmingham.



Over to Bristol, where property litigator Sandy Sadhra joins TLT as an assistant solicitor from Lyons Davidson.



Schofields: Helen O’Hara and assistant Lisa Adkin

In Hertfordshire, charities specialist Emma Knuckey moves to B P Collins in Gerrards Cross as an associate solicitor, having previously worked for City firm Allen & Overy.


To the City, where Nichola Carter leaves Magrath & Co to set up a new immigration practice at H20 as an associate.



Four new assistant solicitors for Ormerods in Croyden: Adel Sheikh from Churchers in Fareham (commercial property); Greg Bush from Grant Shaw in London (commercial property); Roger Bates from Streeter Marshall in Croyden (probate and trust); and David Goldstein from Galbraith Branley in London (criminal law).



Senior solicitor Andrew Murray moves to the Horsham office of Rawlison Butler from Carter Rupp & Roberts in New York.



Assistant solicitor Nicola Sommers joins the civil litigation team at Shentons in Winchester, having left Lamport Bassitt in Southampton earlier in the year.





Counsel and bar



Arbitration specialist Carlos Ignacio Suarez Anzorena has joined Clifford Chance in London as counsel from the Solicitor-General’s office in Argentina.


Four new tenants for Manchester’s Exchange Chambers: Digby Jess from 8 King St in Manchester (commercial litigation, professional negligence and building); Rachael Woods from Queens Chambers in Manchester (serious crime); Scott Redpath from City firm Clifford Chance (pensions); and Chris Barnes from India Buildings in Liverpool (personal injury).




Other



Head of dispute resolution Michael Frawley is to take over from Gary Moss as managing partner at City firm Taylor Wessing in October.



At Thomas Eggar in the south-east, commercial property specialist Iain MacLeod has been appointed deputy managing partner.