PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners


George Davies (l-r): Matthew Barnes, Justin Marks, Walter Nicholls, and Mark JonesA flurry of activity in the City this week.


Two hires for Clyde & Co: corporate partner Catherine Moss moves across from Tite & Lewis, while reinsurance specialist Stephen Lewis joins from Clifford Chance as a consultant.



Corporate specialist Michael McFall, previously at Dorsey & Whitney, joins the London office of another US firm, McDermott Will & Emery.



City firm Eversheds has recruited Andrew Halper from Denton Wilde Sapte as a partner in its corporate practice and head of its China business group.



Marine specialist Richard Morris has been promoted to partner in the shipping and international trade group at Thomas Cooper & Stibbard.



Florence Terry: setting up her own practiceTwo promotions to partner at niche business and technology firm Kemp Little: David Williams in the employment team and Charles Claisse in corporate.


Non-contentious construction and property development specialist Nigel Brown leaves City firm Richards Butler for the real estate team at Westminster firm Bircham Dyson Bell.



Projects and construction solicitor Cecily Davis moves from City firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to become a partner at Shadbolt & Co’s London office.



Florence Terry is leaving Family Law in Partnership in Covent Garden to set up a practice under her own name.



Nasima Khalique: joins Clarkson’s litigation teamEast Midlands criminal law firm Cartwright King has appointed John Scruton, previously at the Legal Services Commission, as its new chief executive. Andrew Brammer joins the Nottingham office as a partner from Derby firm Nelsons, while assistants John Ruskin and Azim Walters move to the Leicester office from local firms Johl & Co and Oliver D’sa respectively.


In Hull, Andrew Kingston-Splatt, previously partner and head of civil litigation at Hamers, has set up his own practice, Andrew Kingston & Co.



Assistants


City firm Norton Rose has recruited projects associate Sirri Al-Kaylani from Denton Wilde Sapte.



Senior intellectual property solicitor Simon Bennett also leaves Denton Wilde Sapte for the London office of US firm Arnold & Porter.



Sirri Al-Kaylani: associate joins Norton RoseCity firm Kingsley Napley has expanded its company commercial department with two new assistants: Deepa Hundalani joins from Manches, while Michelle Harris moves from CMS Cameron McKenna.


In Kent, Orpington-based Clarkson Wright & Jakes promotes two to associate: Claire Gardner (matrimonial) and Jill Lawton (commercial litigation). Nasima Khalique qualifies into the commercial litigation team.



Moving west, Cotswolds firm Kendall & Davies has hired property specialist Robert Draper, who was previously an associate at Cheltenham-based Willans.



Construction assistant Sean Campbell joins TLT in Bristol from City firm Masons.



To the midlands, where Michelle Gavin has been promoted to associate in the private client team at Standley & Co in Solihull.



Nigel Brown: real estate at Bircham Dyson BellCommercial property assistant Lucy Higgins leaves Wragge & Co in Birmingham for Northa-mpton-based Tollers.


Lincoln firm Sills & Betteridge has hired family assistant Joanne Day from McKinnells.



In the north-west, corporate specialist Tom Ferns, who was previously at City firm Taylor Wessing, joins Hill Dickinson’s Chester office as an associate.



Two new associates at Manchester firm George Davies: Mark Jones joins the litigation team from Boote Edgar Esterkin and Justin Marks bolsters the employment team after leaving national firm Pinsents. The firm’s sports department also sees the arrival of consultant Walter Nicholls, previously at Lyons Wilson, and assistant Matthew Barnes from Hammonds.



Michael Connor, previously a partner in the Manchester office of Russell Jones & Walker, becomes an associate at claimant personal injury firm Fentons.



Former Halliwells assistant Gregory Gardner-Boyes has joined the commercial litigation team in Haworth & Nuttall’s Blackburn office.



In Leeds, newly-qualified Russell Burnett leaves DLA for the commercial property department at Cobbetts.



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