PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners


Starting off in the capital, Speechly Bircham promotes UK and international tax lawyer Charles Hutton. It now has 51 partners.


Ursula Danagher joins Goodman Derrick to head its family team from ASB Law in Croydon.


Carter Lemon Camerons promotes commercial property specialist Chris Picardo, who returns after a sabbatical to become its 17th partner.


Robert Galloway, previously at Park Nelson, joins the property team at Ross & Craig.


Payne Hicks Beach promotes family specialist Fiona Brown and company and commercial lawyer Jonathan Gatward. The firm now has 28 partners.


William Sturges & Co promotes Neil Garland in the property team, while company commercial specialist Grant Meyrick joins from Meyrick Mills, where he was a partner. The firm now has 18 partners.


Hodders promotes Christina Kwaw in the civil litigation department in its Harlesden office. It has eight partners.


In Kent, Hatten Wyatt promotes property specialist Karen du Rocher. The firm has four partners.


Moving west, Bond Pearce promotes Richard Guyatt in the planning team at the Bristol office. It has 68 partners.


Also in Bristol, Veale Wasbrough promotes Tabitha Cave in the personal injury team. She becomes the firm’s 29th partner.


Cheshire firm Hillyer McKeown promotes commercial and corporate specialist Steve Harvey as its ninth partner.



Management


US firm Hunton & Williams appoints corporate specialist Martin Thomas as London office managing partner. He succeeds Drew Murphy, who returns to the US.



Associates/Assistants


In London, Penn Legal promotes civil litigation specialist Mark Harvey and corporate lawyer Darren Dale to associates in its City office.


Brendan Hannigan joins Ross & Craig as corporate and media assistant from Irish firm A&L Goodbody.


Margrielle Wilburn joins the property department of Gravesend firm Hatten Wyatt as an assistant; she moves from Farara Kerins in the British Virgin Islands.


Marine specialist Alistair Rustemeyer joins Brighton firm Howlett Clarke as an associate, following the acquisition of his practice Rustemeyer & Co.


Plymouth firm Wolferstans promotes seven to associate: James Walsh and Paul White (personal injury), Samantha Buckthought (clinical negligence), Rebecca Giles, Louise Vigus and Alisa Willows (matrimonial), and Gillian Foster (wills and trust).


Two assistants join the planning team at the Bristol office of Bond Pearce: Vicki Redman from the local office of Laytons and Sara Wex from Lovells in London.


Four move to Milton Keynes firm Kimbells: senior assistant Andrew Li joins the commercial property team from Edwards Geldard in Nottingham, Jim Bradley joins the IT and commerce group as an assistant from DMH Stallard in Sussex, while Nathan Thomas from Gateley Wareing in Leicester and Jo Finn from Howes Percival in Leicester join the employment team as assistants.


Assistant Tamsin Hall joins the commercial disputes department at the Norwich office of Kester Cunningham John from Hegarty & Co in Peterborough.


In Stoke-on-Trent, two assistants for KJD: employment specialist Jane Marshall from Lanyon Bowdler in Telford and corporate/commercial lawyer Julian Milan from Irwin Mitchell in Sheffield.


Moving north, transport specialist David Glover joins Lancashire firm Backhouse Jones from Aaron & Partners in Chester.


Steve Hartley moves to the corporate team at the Preston office of Ricksons as an assistant solicitor from Manchester firm Turner Parkinson.


Two associates join the Manchester office of Brabners Chaffe Street: property specialist Malcolm Glynn moves from Ricksons’ local office, while Jill Barker joins the litigation team from DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in Liverpool.



Other


Peter Lintott is appointed consultant to the residential property department of Kent firm Warners, following his retirement as a partner from Cripps Harries Hall in Tunbridge Wells.