Private Practice

Partners – promotions

Clifford Chance kicks off this week’s promotion round-up, with 12 of its 30 new partners based in the London headquarters: James Anderson, Mike Crossan and Anthony Stewart (tax and employment); James Butters, Matthew Grigg, Rod Howell and Faizal Khan (finance); Jane Cheong Tung Sing (real estate); Katrina Crosse and Kari McCormick (litigation and dispute resolution); Alex Lloyd (capital markets); and Brendan Moylan (corporate). The world’s largest law firm now has 582 partners.


Fellow magic circle firm Slaughter and May is up to a more modest 130 by promoting six: corporate specialists Mark Dwyer, Simon Nicholls, Matthew Tobin, David Watkins and Benita Yu, and competition lawyer Claire Jeffs.


Fleet Street practice Royds is now an 18-partner practice after elevating Vivien Davies (commercial litigation) and Hazel French (private client).


Niche London fraud law firm Peters & Peters promotes Anand Doobay as its 13th partner.


In Essex, Romford firm Mullis & Peake promotes private client lawyer Germain McAulay. She is the firm’s 11th partner.


Birmingham firm Shakespeares promotes Helen Hughes to an employment partner, the firm’s 20th partner in total.




Partners – hires

US/UK firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham has brought in real estate finance lawyer Jonathan Lawrence as a partner from Allen & Overy.


Stephen Clark joins the international finance group at the London office of US firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood from Ashurst, where he was a partner.


Stephen Marks joins City firm Maxwell Batley’s property group as a partner from Beachcroft Wansbroughs, where he was an associate.


Stratford-upon-Avon firm Needham & James appoints Marcus Everett as an associate partner in the company/commercial team. He leaves accountants Kingston Smith in London, where he was tax and legal manager.


Derby firm Flint Bishop & Barnett has appointed family law partner Donella Nicolle to its recently opened Nottingham office. She moves across the city from Ashton Bond Gigg.


Elsewhere in Nottingham, private finance initiative lawyer Stephen Pearson is to head up a new public and private partnership services team at Freeth Cartwright. He leaves Bevan Brittan, where he headed the Birmingham projects unit.


Leading Hull firm Andrew M Jackson has a new senior partner – family lawyer Andrew Haines – after joint senior partners Martin Whitehead (corporate) and Silas Taylor (shipping and transport) completed their term of office.


Banking and finance lawyer Stephen Baylis has become a partner in the York office of Langleys. Previously a partner in the Leeds office of Hammonds, he has been with Langleys on a consultancy basis for the past year.




Associates/Assistants

Three property associates join City firm Davies Arnold Cooper: Chris Baker from Denton Wilde Sapte, Nicola Sutton from Horsey Lightly Fynn in Newbury, and Euan Lloyd from Herbert Smith.


Also leaving Herbert Smith are property and construction assistants Sally Ashworth and Clare Drayton, who have gone to Maxwell Batley.


Dorothy McMahon joins Grundberg Mocatta Rakison as an associate from Atlantic Law, where she was the assistant in charge of litigation.


Assistant solicitor Katherine Lissanevitch joins the fraud and serious crime team at Bankside Law from Simons Muirhead & Burton.


Moving out of the City is employment assistant Clare Newman, who swaps DMH Stallard for Luton firm Taylor Walton.


Romford firm Mullis Peake promotes four to associate: Andrew Wand (litigation), Joanna Toloczko (matrimonial), Margot Graham (private client) and Satinder Chagger (domestic conveyancing).


In Birmingham, Wragge & Co has hired associate Ben Davies for the public sector team. He was previously in-house at the University of Birmingham. Private finance initiative associate Simon Chappel joins from DLA.


Andrew Pilkington joins the Derby office of Flint Bishop & Barnett as a corporate and commercial assistant; he was formerly in-house at Rolls-Royce.


Sheffield firm HLW promotes James Bullock to corporate associate; Anna Deans and Sobiya Hussain become assistants on qualification with the firm in the commercial litigation and commercial property departments respectively.


Leeds-based McCormicks promotes Alison Batty (commercial property), Alice Pratt (corporate recovery) and Victoria Newman (family) to associates, while after qualification, four have become assistants: Julia Pearson and Stephen Gaul are with the corporate and commercial team, while Julie Dickinson and Jonathan Mills are in the commercial dispute resolution department.


Neil Gouldson joins Manchester firm Rowe Cohen as an assistant and head of employment from local firm Perkins.






Other


Helen Mellors joins York firm Philip Ashworth & Co as consultant and head of the commercial property team; she was previously a partner at Grays in York.