PRIVATE PRACTICE
Partners
In the City, Speechly Bircham recruits commercial litigator Ian Timlin from Maxwell Batley.
Private equity specialist Derek Baird joins Allen & Overy from Lovells.
Keir Barrie moves from Addleshaw Goddard to join Osborne Clarke’s private equity team.
Berwin Leighton Paisner boosts its energy and natural resources team with the addition of Mark Saunders and Adam Dann; both were formerly partners at US firm Dewey Ballantine.
Marine specialist Alex Davis joins Stephenson Harwood from the London office of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary.
IT specialist Simon Briskman joins Field Fisher Waterhouse from Olswang.
US firm Howrey promotes international commercial litigator George Maling in its London office. Dual-qualified US lawyer and solicitor David Owen is also promoted in Amsterdam.
Spanish lawyer and solicitor Alberto Perez Cedillo moves from Fernando Scornik Gerstein to set up his own firm in London. He is joined by consultant Lorenzo Ruiz Barrero, formerly with Amhurst Brown Colombotti.
Kent firm Clarkson Wright & Jakes promotes commercial litigator Jill Lawton and commercial property specialist Richard Starr.
Norwich firm Steeles hires Howes Percival founding partner and corporate specialist Andrew Wood to expand its international practice.
East midlands firm Roythornes promotes four: Simeon Disley and Wendy Spalding-Siracusa in the commercial property team, David Coleman in the litigation team and Jarred Wright in the private client team.
Poole Alcock in Crewe promotes company and commercial specialist Neil Holden.
Associates/Assistants
In London, Osborne Clarke recruits assistant Justine Jones to its private equity team from Lovells.
Jeffrey Green Russell appoints Anna Rabin from Maples Teesdale as head of construction and engineering.
Denise Stephenson joins Sharpe Pritchard’s planning and parliamentary section after working in-house at the London Borough of Camden.
Colchester firm Ellisons promotes three to associate: Jayne Scott in the employment team, Sally Hudson in the corporate and commercial team and Caroline Price in the family team.
Assistant David Leather joins the commercial property team at Pitmans in Reading from Hereford firm Gabbs.
Assistant Deborah Underhill joins the private client team at Cheltenham firm Rickerbys from Birmingham firm Young & Lee.
In Devon, two assistants join the commercial department at Kitson Hutchings: Jane Mulhern on qualification with the firm and Steven Carman from Michelmores.
Tom Lewis joins Bury St Edmunds firm Greene & Greene as an assistant in the private client department from Miller Sands in Cambridge.
To the midlands, where Carly Jones and Sundeep Bilkhu join the property litigation team at Cobbetts’ Birmingham office after qualifying with the firm.
East midlands firm Roythornes promotes Sally Banks to associate in the private client team. Two new assistants also join private client: Sarah Steel on qualification with the firm and Amanda Gale from Marchants in Mansfield. Ed Bailey joins the corporate and commercial team after qualifying with the firm.
Two associates move to the personal injury and claims division of Merseyside firm Lees Lloyd Whitley: former locum solicitor Simon Higgs and Elaine Meehan from Lancashire firm Rostrons.
Two join the property team in the Manchester office of Brabners Chaffe Street: assistants Leo Rossiter from Addleshaw Goddard and Matthew O’Brien on qualification with the firm.
Hull firm Andrew M Jackson expands its corporate department with the appointment of Paul King from local firm Gosschalks.
CONSULTANTS
Vivien Gregory joins Bond Pearce’s Bristol office as a consultant to strengthen its oil and gas team; she was formerly a senior legal adviser for the Petrofina Group.
BAR AND BENCH
Barrister James Browne QC is appointed a circuit judge on the south-eastern circuit.
District Judge Mitchell, a former barrister appointed a circuit judge on the south-eastern circuit, is known as John Mitchell not Richard Mitchell as stated in [2006] Gazette, 12 January, 42.
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