PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners


Telecoms specialist Robert Bratby joins the corporate group in Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw’s London office from US firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr.


Dispute resolution specialist Richard Caird becomes a partner at Denton Wilde Sapte after a stint as the firm’s director of compliance.


Richard Beresford joins the corporate team at Grundberg Mocatta Rakison from Orchard, where he was a partner. Moving with him is senior associate Mark Longford.


Moving out of town, Richard Gerstein joins Watford firm Matthew Arnold & Baldwin as head of its construction practice; he moves from City firm Goodman Derrick, where he was managing partner.


Company commercial specialist Sarah Staines joins St Albans firm Sherrards from local firm Pictons.


Kent firm Thomson Snell & Passmore promotes dispute resolution expert Nick Horton to equity partner in its Tunbridge Wells office.


Basingstoke firm Lamb Brooks promotes company and commercial specialist Warren Sadler.


In the midlands, Declan Cushley joins the intellectual property team at the Birmingham office of Browne Jacobson from brewer Molson Coors.


Richard Piper is to join Yorkshire firm Gordons to head its construction team from Eversheds in Leeds, where he was a partner.


Solicitor-advocate Andrew Thompson leaves York firm Crombie Wilkinson to set up his own practice in Leeds.






Associates/Assistants


Sarah Youren joins the planning and public law team at the London office of Denton Wilde Sapte from SJ Berwin, and associate Candida Thompson joins the firm’s Milton Keynes real estate team from Bovis Homes, where she was legal director.


Litigation assistant Matthew Howat joins Owen White & Catlin in Ashford, Middlesex, from Kent firm Judge & Priestley.


Davinder Sandhu joins the New Malden office of Pearson Maddin as an assistant in the company and commercial team from Sharpe Pritchard in London.


In Kent, Thomson Snell & Passmore promotes Nick Gabay (company and commercial) to senior associate, and Kate Gage (family and matrimonial) and James Willis (employment) to associate.


On the south coast, senior assistant Suzie Rouse joins Southampton firm Moore & Blatch to head the new property litigation unit, moving across the city from Paris Smith & Randall.


Assistant Ben Bystry joins the commercial property team at the Fareham office of Coffin Mew & Clover from Brighton firm Bunkers.


Employment assistant Sarah Lee joins Cheltenham firm Rickerbys from the Nottingham office of Eversheds.


Assistant Tim Chamberlain joins the trusts and estates department at Milton Keynes firm Tollers from Parrott & Coales in Hertfordshire.


Barrister Jennifer Jones joins the Birmingham office of Mills & Reeve as an associate in the employment team; she moves from No 5 Chambers in the city.


In Leicester, Ian Ilersic joins the company commercial department of Spearing Waite as an assistant from Wragge & Co in Birmingham.


Moving north, Lindsey Farrelly joins the corporate department at Manchester firm George Davies as an assistant from local firm Mace & Jones.


Personal injury assistant Simon Harrington moves to Manchester firm McCool Patterson Hemsi & Co from Lorimer Longhurst & Lees in Cambridge.


In Wakefield, construction specialist Naheem Anwar joins the Hawkswell Kilvington Partnership as an assistant from Betesh Fox & Co in Manchester.


Litigator Mark Hilton joins Altrincham firm Neil Myerson as an associate from the Manchester office of Brabners Chaffe Street.


Assistant Jonathan Stirland joins the criminal law team at the Newcastle office of Thompsons from Goodyear & Co in Blyth, Northumberland.