PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners


In the City, Jonathan Simpson joins Berwin Leighton Paisner to head its new international projects team from US firm Dewey Ballantine, where he was a partner.


Former sole principal Peter Jansen joins the construction team at Penningtons.


James Anderson leaves Clifford Chance to join the tax practice at US firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.


Shadbolt & Co promotes Philip Adams in the construction and engineering team.


West End firm Simons Muirhead & Burton promotes Razwana Akram and Alexandra Joffe in its commercial media team.


Surrey firm Hart Brown promotes Alyson Coulson in the trust and investment team at its Cranleigh office.


Brighton firm Wynne Baxter promotes commercial specialists Simon Baillie-Hamilton and Alex Chester.


Six join Halliwells: in Manchester, banking and finance specialist Andrew Field moves from Cobbetts, Chris Moss moves from Eversheds to bolster corporate, and Sara Whetnall joins the real estate team from Kent Jones & Done in Stoke. Harvey Stringfellow will also join the dispute resolution team from Wacks Caller. In the Sheffield office, Alastair Read joins the commercial and industrial property team from Irwin Mitchell, and Diarmuid Deeney joins the employment team from Russell & Creswick.


Preston firm MWR Solicitors promotes employment specialist Sadiq Vohra.




Associates/Assistants


Two additions to the private client team at City firm Speechly Bircham: senior assistant Henrietta Sargant joins from Charles Russell and barrister Alison Broadberry joins from St James’s Place.


James Singleton joins the residential property department at Howard Kennedy from CH Hausmann & Co, where he was a partner.


Uxbridge firm IBB recruits assistant Clare Mitson for its personal injury team – she moves from Thompsons in Essex.


Family assistant Charlotte Pinder moves to the Wokingham office of Ratcliffe Duce & Gammer from west London firm Douglass Simon.


Two assistants join Hampshire firm Eric Robinson Solicitors: Kitty Falls joins the commercial team in the Southampton office from Clarkslegal in Reading, and Jean Hendry joins the family team in the Bitterne office from local firm Dent Abrams. The firm also promotes wills and probate specialist Pamela Burt to associate in its Bitterne office.


In the midlands private client assistant Sarah Butt joins Needham & James from Stratford-based Lodders.


Assistant Shella Sangha joins the employment team at Birmingham firm Putsmans after qualifying at local firm Higgs & Sons.


Moving north, four assistants join Manchester firm James Chapman & Co on qualification with the firm: Catherine Berg and Emma Stuart in the personal and catastrophic injury department, and Matt Hargreaves and Stuart Baird in the commercial and sports team.


Two assistants move to the Manchester office of Brabners Chaffe Street: Joanne Tinman in the employment team from the local office of Berrymans Lace Mawyer, and Simon Lewis in the corporate team from Halliwells.


Cottrill Stone Lawless promotes Vicken Couligian to associate in its personal injury department.


Also in Manchester, Luisa D’Alessandro joins Berg Legal as an associate in the commercial department from Pinsent Masons in Leeds.


Yorkshire firm Andrew M Jackson has five new recruits: Jenny Dixon (corporate), Katy Hansom (commercial), Leanne Slater (tax and trusts) and Mike Wilson (litigation dispute resolution) all join on qualification with the firm, while Matthew Peacock (shipping and transport) joins after qualifying with Pinsent Masons in Leeds.



BAR AND BENCH


Barrister Roger Kaye QC is appointed as a specialist chancery and mercantile circuit judge on the north-eastern circuit.


Barrister Robert Hill and solicitor Alastair McGrigor are appointed assistant judge advocate-general. They will officiate at courts-martial in the UK and abroad.